Tag: Taliban
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Taliban: Afghanistan national team footballer dies after falling from U.S. plane
An Afghan footballer who played for the national youth team fell to his death after trying to cling to a US plane airlifting people out of Taliban-controlled Kabul, a sports federation said Thursday. The General Directorate of Physical Education and Sports of Afghanistan, a government institution that worked with sporting groups, confirmed the death of…
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Taliban must decide whether it wants int’l recognition – Biden
The Taliban must decide whether it wants to be recognised by the international community, according to U.S. President Joe Biden. Biden, who said this in an ABC interview aired on Thursday, added that he did not think the group had changed its fundamental beliefs. Asked if he thought the Taliban had changed, Biden told ABC…
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Afghans march in protest against Taliban’s rule
Afghan protesters defied the Taliban for a second day Thursday, waving their national flag in scattered demonstrations, and the fighters again responded violently as they faced down growing challenges to their rule. A U.N. official warned of dire food shortages and experts said the country was severely in need of cash while noting that the…
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Afghan Taliban to hold first news conference – Spokesperson
Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said in a tweet that he will hold a news conference on Tuesday at a media centre in Kabul that was previously used by the Afghan government. Mujahid said media representatives and journalists could come to the media centre. The Taliban urged people in Afghanistan on Tuesday to live their routine…
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Afghan Taliban to hold first news conference – Spokesperson
Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said in a tweet that he will hold a news conference on Tuesday at a media centre in Kabul that was previously used by the Afghan government. Mujahid said media representatives and journalists could come to the media centre. The Taliban urged people in Afghanistan on Tuesday to live their routine…
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Nigeria must never recognize Taliban-led Afghanistan- Moghalu
Kingsley Moghalu, former presidential candidate of the Young Progressive Party (YPP), has advised the Nigerian government not to acknowledge the Taliban-led Afghanistan. TheNewsGuru recalls that Taliban fighters had on Sunday stormed Kabul, and took over power after Ashraf Ghani, the Afghanistan president, fled. Speaking on the development, Moghalu said the situation in Afghanistan is an…
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Trending video: Taliban militants wine, dine in presidential palace
New footage has come out on social media showing the Taliban militants wining and dining in the presidential palace formerly occupied by President Ashraf Ghani and his cabinet. Some of the militants sat ontop the sofa while others could be seen eating as they chatted and laughed in the palace. The Taliban have taken total…
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Afghan president flees country as Taliban captures Kabul
President Ashraf Ghani fled Afghanistan on Sunday, a top official said, effectively ceding power to the Taliban as they reached the capital Kabul to seal a nationwide military victory in just 10 days. “The former Afghan President has left the nation, leaving the people to this situation,” Abdullah Abdullah, who heads the peace process, said…
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3 soldiers, 60 militants killed after gov’t troops repel attack
The Afghan security forces repelled an attack by Taliban on Shiberghan city, capital of Afghanistan’s Northern Jawzjan province on Friday, killing and injuring dozens of militants, local police said. Sporadic fighting started early Friday when dozens of Taliban militants armed with guns and heavy weapons entered from two directions in the South and East of…
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Pantami in fresh trouble as group writes U.S. to officially place him on terrorist watchlist
A group of Nigerians has written to the United States of America (USA) to investigate and officially place Nigeria’s Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Pantami on terrorist watchlist if found to be affiliated with any terrorist organization. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports the group known as Concerned Nigerians addressed the letter to the Secretary…