A seven-country group set up to combat the international financing of terrorists has blacklisted nine individuals associated with Afghanistan’s Taliban, including two Iranian military officers and several men accused of “facilitating Iranian support to bolster the terrorist group.”
This week’s transfer of authority comes 11 years after the Pakistani army first moved into the scenic Swat Valley in 2007 to take on a Taliban rebellion.
After millions have been displaced by conflicts in Afghanistan, hundreds of thousands more now face a life-threatening drought. (AFP)
An independent Pakistani cricket tribunal has upheld a 10-year ban from the sport against Pakistani player Nasir Jamshed over his role in Pakistan Super League fixing scandals.
Senior Afghan officials have praised voters who cast ballots in weekend parliamentary elections that were plagued by violence and organizational problems, saying the turnout shows that Afghans are rejecting the ideology of Taliban militants.
The enthusiastic turnout in the parliamentary election suggests Afghans are largely refraining from backing the Taliban’s narrative, which portrays Afghanistan as an occupied country with a government lacking popular legitimacy.
In 2013, a bombing at a market in Peshawar struck a passing wedding party, killing 18 members of one family. One survivor who was seriously injured is now helping to raise 12 children who lost one or both parents in the attack.
The Pentagon has acknowledged for the first time that U.S. Army Brigadier General Jeffrey Smiley was wounded in the attack in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar Province on October 18 that killed two senior Afghan officials.
Afghanistan’s long-delayed parliamentary elections have entered into a second day after hundreds of polling stations were closed on the first day of voting due to technical and security issues.
Afghan officials are counting ballots in the country’s long-delayed parliamentary elections that were marred by deadly attacks and chaotic scenes at polling stations hit by technical and organizational problems.
Afghanistan’s long-delayed parliamentary elections got off to a chaotic start on October 20, with polling stations hit by logistical problems as several minor incidents of violence were reported across the country.
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