In his first Western media interview since then As the Taliban took complete control of Afghanistan, one of the group's leaders tried to present it in a new light — insisting that the Taliban had changed since they were last in power. «We want to build a future and forget what happened in the past,” spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in an interview with The New York Times. During the conversation,…
U.S. officials in Kabul have handed over to the Taliban
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said Wednesday, that about 1,500 Americans remain in Afghanistan awaiting their evacuation. The Biden administration continues to make efforts to evacuate Americans and Afghan allies through August 31, the deadline set for a full exit from the country. Blinken said the US had evacuated 82,300 people, including 4,500 with US passports, since Aug. 14, the day before the Taliban captured Kabul and completed its takeover…
US officials told ABC that Biden decided to stick to the August 31 deadline for withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, despite pressure from European allies and calls to extend the evacuation time. Nevertheless, the president said contingency plans would be made unforeseen circumstances that could force troops to delay beyond Aug. 31 to complete the evacuation of Americans and Afghan allies. A Taliban spokesman said earlier that the US should complete…
Former President Donald Trump booed at a rally in Alabama on Saturday after he told his supporters they should get vaccinated. “You know what? I fully believe in your freedoms. Truth. Trump said <…> But I recommend getting vaccinated. I did. The vaccine is working, take it.” After that, there were dissatisfied exclamations from the crowd, in which there were almost no masked people. “No, that's fine. Everything is fine….
Evacuation flights resumed on Friday at the airport Kabul is less than a day after 13 US troops and dozens of Afghans were killed in suicide attacks claimed by ISIS. Military officials also issued warnings that more attacks could occur at the airport, and that their risk is rising amid a push to get hundreds of Americans and as many vulnerable Afghans out of the country. An Afghan health ministry…
Two Explosions rocked the Kabul airport on Thursday, killing dozens of people, including US troops, and evacuation efforts were complicated days before President Joe Biden's deadline for Americans to leave Afghanistan. Initially, Taliban sources told NBC News that at least 13 people, including children, were killed and many more were injured in the attack. Later, the Afghan Ministry of Health reported that 60 Afghans were killed in the explosions, and…
The suspect was arrested law enforcement hours after police reported that he had parked a pickup truck outside the Capitol and claimed he had a bomb — leading to the evacuation of several nearby buildings. Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger confirmed to a press release. conference on Thursday afternoon that the man was taken into custody. Earlier Thursday, police evacuated the Cannon House office building, the Jefferson Building of the…
A child in Florida shot and killed a woman with an unattended gun during a video call, police said. A member of a work-related Zoom conference called 911 and said they saw a toddler and heard a noise before the woman , Shamaya Lynn, fell on her back, police said in a statement. Lynn, 21, was shot in the head Wednesday in Altamonte Springs, near Orlando. According to the media,…
The 26-year-old Utah woman died in a crash Friday night when another car crashed into her car, just hours after she married her high school sweetheart, according to her family. According to the Utah Highway Patrol, the accident occurred after 1:00 am on I-15 near Salt Lake City. A Toyota pickup truck driving south on the north lane crashed into the victim's Toyota Corolla. A 26-year-old Corolla driver was fatally…
