The last US military flight departed from Kabul, putting an end to the 20-year war. A C-17 military transport aircraft with the US ambassador on board left Afghanistan shortly before midnight on Tuesday, August 31. Read today in USA.ONE: The last US military leaves Afghanistan United States
In his first Western media interview since 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, he…
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 took 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…
15 year old a resident of Texas, USA, shot his parents, younger sister and dogs, and then committed suicide. Before pulling the trigger for the last time, he posted a photo of his murdered relatives online. Read today in USA.ONE magazine: A teenager killed his entire family on his mother's birthday Law enforcement officers are investigating the causes of the massacre. A 15-year-old boy shot himself after killing all his…
Tennessee, USA, during a police pursuit, a man cut off his penis and threw it out the window of his Honda Accord car. The 39-year-old driver claimed to have been told to do so by radio. Read today in USA.ONE magazine: An American amputated his penis and threw it out a car window According to his version, it was supposed to "save the world". A man cut off his penis…
A California woman saved her five-year-old son from being attacked by a mountain lion. A boy was playing near his home in Calabasas in the Santa Monica Mountains, west of Los Angeles, when a lion attacked him. The animal dragged the child across the front lawn, but then the mother ran out and began to beat the mountain lion with her bare hands — until he let her son go….
Ten members of one families, including seven children, were killed in a U.S. drone strike on a car in a residential area of Kabul, relatives of the victims told the Washington Post. The U.S. launched a defensive airstrike in Kabul against a suspected ISIS-K suicide bomber , which posed an «imminent» threat to the airport, US Central Command said on Sunday. According to the brother of one of the victims,…
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…
