London, United Kingdom – Seven years after he first entered Ecuador’s embassy in London seeking asylum, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested by British police and faces extradition to the United States. A bedraggled and sickly looking Assange on Thursday was dragged out of the building in the UK capital by officers and bundled into a police van after the South American country abruptly revoked his asylum… Read more »
Asasabad, Kunar Province, Afghanistan – The arrival of spring has turned the fields green in the northeastern Afghan province of Kunar, which shares a border with Pakistan. Bukharis, traditional Afghan heaters, have been switched off as the rapeseed blossoms. As well as picturesque landscapes, with spring comes a new fighting season in Afghanistan. Every year, around this time, the Taliban announce their offensive. “It is… Read more »
Tehran, Iran – As Iranians continue to deal with the aftermath of deadly floods across the country and the government scrambles to provide relief, the need for a natural disasters insurance fund is once more deeply felt. Since mid-March, massive floods have hit 26 of Iran’s 31 provinces, leaving at least 70 dead. They have forced evacuations, ravaged infrastructures, and incurred heavy losses… Read more »
President Hassan Rouhani has defended the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as protectors of Iran and said that the US decision to label the Iranian elite force a “terrorist group” was a mistake. “The guards have sacrificed their lives to protect our people, our [1979 Islamic] revolution … Today America that holds a grudge against the guards, blacklists the guards,” Rouhani said in a speech broadcast live… Read more »
Recently Donald Trump branded the Islamic Republic’s elite Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a “foreign terrorist organisation”. In response to this Iran’s Supreme National Council quickly responded branded the United States as a “state sponsor of terrorism”. Iran also stated that the US forces in operating and stationed in Iran are now considered terrorist groups to them and should be… Read more »
Iran’s Supreme National Council has moved swiftly to brand the United States as a “state sponsor of terrorism”, in a tit-for-tat response to President Donald Trump’s designation of the Islamic Republic’s elite Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a “foreign terrorist organisation”. In a statement carried on Monday by Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency, the council said it also declared all US forces… Read more »
At least thirteen people have killed in US air raid in the city of Kunduz of northern Afghanistan. This air raid was is part of battle between US and Afghan forces and the Taliban, a terrorist group. The raid lasted for thirty hours starting early in the morning on Saturday. Several victims happened to be children. the number of children… Read more »
Two explosions went off in a stadium in Afghanistan killing four people and wounding another thirty one. The two explosions occurred during what was known as farmers day where a lot of people gather to bring in the new year. This event was attended by at least one thousand people. Apparently during the one of the blasts Hemlands Economic chief,… Read more »
A senior Afghan official has accused the US of “delegitimising” the Kabul government by excluding it from peace talks with the Taliban. Hamdullah Mohib, a national security adviser to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, levelled a fierce attack on US Special Representative Zalmay Khalilzad on Thursday, suggesting the veteran US diplomat held ambitions to run for political office in Afghanistan. Khalilzad was born in the northern… Read more »
wo American service members were killed during an operation in Afghanistan on Friday, the NATO forces have said, providing no further details on the combat deaths. The latest fatalities, which bring to four the number of US soldiers killed so far this year in Afghanistan, underscore the difficulties in bringing peace to the war-wrecked country even as Washington has stepped up efforts… Read more »