The United Kingdom will pull out all its forces from Afghanistan, says a media report. The Times reported Britain’s plans Hours after US President Joe Biden’s announcement of a full troop pullout from the country by September 20. The UK would transfer control of the Military Academy in Kabul, where its troops train Afghan soldiers, to the government in Kabul. […]

The Taliban have linked participation in any conference on Afghanistan’s future to the pullout of all international forces from the country. Mohammad Naeem, spokesman for Taliban’s political office in Doha, said this in a tweet hours after President Biden announced on Tuesday withdrawing all US troops from Afghanistan by September. Naeem wrote: “Until all foreign forces withdraw from our homeland, […]

Taliban on Wednesday afternoon warned the US and NATO to stick to the agreement of troops withdrawal on May 1 and said if the Doha agreement is not adhered to problems will be “compounded” and those in breach of the deal will “be held liable”. In a series of tweets, Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, said: “The Islamic Emirate of […]

Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns said Wednesday there is a “significant risk” that terrorist groups will seek to rebuild after U.S. troops withdraw and that not having troops in Afghanistan would diminish the agency’s ability to gather intelligence in the country. Addressing a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, Burns said: “Our ability to keep that thread in Afghanistan in check, […]

A coalition of NATO-led troops in Afghanistan will leave the country in coordination with a planned U.S. withdrawal by September 11, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in Brussels on Wednesday. His remarks came ahead of a formal announcement of the end of two decades of fighting. Around 7,000 non-U.S. forces from mainly NATO countries, but also from Australia, […]

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin arrived in Brussels on Wednesday ahead of a planned announcement by US President Joe Biden that troops will withdraw from Afghanistan by September 11. Reuters reported earlier that a coalition of NATO-led troops in Afghanistan will leave the country in coordination with a planned U.S. withdrawal by September 11. President Joe Biden is expected to […]

US President Joe Biden on Wednesday night officially confirmed that American troops withdrawal from Afghanistan will start on May 1. He said the withdrawal process would be finished by September 11 – the anniversary of the 9/11 attack on the United States. Biden said: “It is time to end America’s longest war. It is time for American troops to come […]

Officials have slammed the planned unconditional withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan and said the withdrawal should be done responsibly. Speaking to Germany’s DPA news agency after news broke of US President Joe Biden’s expected announcement that troops will exit by September 11, one peace talks negotiator in Doha said: “It is the most irresponsible, selfish thing the United States […]