Afghan people sit as they wait to leave the Kabul airport in Kabul on August 16, 2021, after a stunningly swift end to Afghanistan's 20-year war, as thousands of people mobbed the city's airport trying to flee the group's feared hardline brand of Islamist rule. Wakil Kohsar/AFP VIA G...
There were initial talks that were pretty loose and unfocused. And they really came apart after a very short time after I got there. When President Karzai reacted very badly to some news out of someplace -- I don't remember where -- but some news that we were, what he thought was, ...
He told Sky News: "As time went on, we got more complex injuries… that would involve maybe a first IED strike that was followed up by an ambush. They were very much those prolonged injuries. So you would have somebody who'd been in the field for a long perio...
Police also confiscated 127 kg of heroin, 65 kg of opium, 1,469 kg of hashish, 12 kg methamphetamine, more than 3,000 U.S. dollars cash, 23 mobile phones, four rounds of ammunition and four vehicles from the arrested, according to the statement. The 19 cases were sent to the Central...
Among the drugs and materials found from the suspects were 9 kg of heroin, 18 kg of morphine, over 25 kg of opium, and 69 kg of hashish, the statement said, adding the CNPA also seized three vehicles, 17 mobile phones from the arrested. ...
Police also seized 31 kg of heroin, 940 kg of opium, 271 kg of hashish, 150 kg chemical elements that has been used in making heroin, 19 mobile phones and four different types of vehicles from the suspects, according to the statement. The security forces also confiscated local and foreign...
At around 4:15 a.m. on Sunday, staff at the Residence Inn by Marriott downtown saw a young female walk through the lobby visibly upset and crying, and go outside. An employee asked the female if she needed help, but the female kept walking. ...
NEW YORK (AP) --In a ceremony that was more joyful than solemn, the U.S. Navy on Saturday commissioned the USS Michael Murphy, a sleek new warship named for a Navy SEAL who died in Afghanistan at age 29. Cannons boomed, dignitaries spoke of heroism, and nearly...
His role in Helmand was to support the combat teams in the field as a medic, so that he would "patch you up enough to get you on a helicopter to get you home". Joe, whose name has been changed to ensure his security, told Sky News: "It ...
The cases were handed over to the Central Narcotics Tribunal (CNT), a special Afghan court for jurisdiction of major drug cases, for further investigation, the statement added. Police also confiscated different types of narcotic drugs, 19 mobile phones and seven vehicles from the traffickers, accor...