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(Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee subpoenaed Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday to appear before it on Sept. 24 over the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. “If Secretary Blinken fails to appear, the chairman will proceed instead with a full committee markup of a report recommending the U.S. House of Representatives find Secretary Blinken in contempt of Congress for violating a duly issued subpoena,” according to a statement […]
By Atif Aryan with Pascale Trouillaud in Kabul LAQAYI,AFGHANISTAN, Afghanistan, May 11, 2024 (AFP) – LAQAYI,AFGHANISTAN, Afghanistan, May 11, 2024 (AFP) – More than 300 people were killed in flash floods that ripped through multiple Afghan provinces, the World Food Programme said on Saturday, as authorities declared a state of emergency and rushed to rescue the injured. Heavy rains on Friday sent roaring rivers of water and mud crashing through villages and across agricultural land […]
KABUL (AFP) – At least 33 people have been killed over three days of heavy rains and flash flooding in Afghanistan, the government’s disaster management department said Sunday. “From Friday onward, because of the rains there were flash floods which caused high human and financial losses,” department spokesman Janan Sayeq said. “The primary information shows that, unfortunately, in the floods, 33 people were martyred and 27 people got injured.” Most casualties were from roof collapses […]
By Didier LAURAS PARIS, March 23, 2024 (AFP) – The Islamic State group (IS) has claimed responsibility for Friday’s attack on a Moscow concert hall that killed more than 100 people — terrorism experts say its Afghan branch is likely responsible. Since the fundamentalist Taliban took over Kabul, the ISKP — the Afghan branch of IS — has managed to poach members from its rival movement and has repeatedly shown off its will and capability […]
By Sam Reeves FRANKFURT, Germany, March 19, 2024 (AFP) – Two Afghans linked to the Islamic State group were arrested in Germany on Tuesday on suspicion of planning an attack around Sweden’s parliament in retaliation for Koran burnings, prosecutors said. The men, identified as Ibrahim M.G. and Ramin N., were detained in the Gera area of eastern Germany, the federal prosecutor’s office said in a statement. Last summer, the first, an IS member, was tasked […]
FRANKFURT, Germany, March 19, 2024 (AFP) – Two Afghans linked to the Islamic State group were arrested in Germany Tuesday on suspicion of planning to launch an attack around Sweden’s parliament in retaliation for Koran burnings, prosecutors said. The pair — identified as Ibrahim M. G. and Ramin N. — were detained in the Gera area of eastern Germany, the federal prosecutor’s office said in a statement. This is a developing story.
GHAZNI, Afghanistan, Feb 22, 2024 (AFP) – Taliban authorities publicly executed two men convicted of murder in a football stadium in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, according to an AFP journalist at the scene. Both men were executed by multiple gunshots to the back in Ghazni city after Supreme Court official Atiqullah Darwish read aloud a death warrant signed by Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada. “These two people were convicted of the crime of murder,” Darwish […]
KABUL, Feb 19, 2024 (AFP) – A landslide caused by heavy snowfall has killed 25 people and injured eight others in the eastern Afghan province of Nuristan, a disaster management ministry spokesman said on Monday. Earth, snow and rubble swept through the village of Nakre in the Tatin valley of Nuristan overnight on Sunday. “As a result of the landslide, some 25 people have been killed and eight injured,” spokesman Janan Sayeq said in a […]
MOSCOW, Jan 21, 2024 (AFP) – Four people survived and two are unaccounted for after a Russian plane crashed in mountainous northeastern Afghanistan, the air transport agency Rosaviatsia said Sunday. The Falcon 10 business jet was believed to be carrying six people on a hospital flight from India to Uzbekistan and Russia before communication was lost on Saturday evening. “Of the six people on board the aircraft, tentatively, four are alive. They have various injuries. […]
By Mohsen KARIMI HERAT, Afghanistan, Oct 15, 2023 (AFP) – A magnitude 6.3 earthquake killed two people in western Afghanistan Sunday, with damaged prisons evacuated and residents fleeing a region where tremors have claimed at least 1,000 lives this past week. Since October 7, a series of potent quakes have jolted Herat province, levelling whole villages, burying families and leaving thousands homeless as winter approaches. In rural Injil district, near the epicentre of Sunday’s quake, […]
KABUL, Oct 11, 2023 (AFP) – A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck western Afghanistan on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said, hitting an area where more than 2,000 people were killed after a similar tremor on the weekend. The quake occurred at a shallow depth at around 05:10 am local time (00:40 GMT), with its epicentre about 29 kilometres north of the city of Herat, the USGS said.
By Mohsen KARIMI HERAT, Afghanistan, Oct 8, 2023 (AFP) – The death toll from a series of earthquakes in western Afghanistan rose sharply on Sunday to more than 2,000, the Taliban government said, as bodies continued to be pulled from demolished villages and buried in mass graves. More than 1,300 homes were toppled when Saturday’s magnitude 6.3 quake — followed by eight strong aftershocks — jolted hard-to-reach areas 30 kilometres (19 miles) northwest of the […]
