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ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials from Afghanistan's ruling Taliban on Wednesday welcomed the resumption of FlyDubai flights to Kabul's international airport two years after stopping service following the collapse of the Western-backed government. All international airlines halted flights to Afghanistan after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in mid-August 2021 as U.S. and NATO forces departed after two decades of war. FlyDubai, the sister carrier of long-haul airline Emirates, now will make two flights a day to Kabul. In May last year, the Taliban signed a deal allowing an Emirati company to manage three airports in Afghanistan. Two Afghan airlines, Kam Air and Ariana Afghan Airlines, operate from Kabul to destinations such as Dubai, Moscow, Islamabad and Istanbul.
Persons: FlyDubai, Abdul Ghani Baradar, , Abu, Ashraf Ghani, Jon Gambrell Organizations: , Wednesday, NATO, United, Emirates, Taliban, Solutions, Kam, Ariana Afghan Airlines, Associated Press, Badruddin Haqqani, Airbus, Dubai Air, UAE . The Emirates, U.S, ___ Associated Press Locations: ISLAMABAD, Afghanistan, United Arab Emirates, Kabul, Abu Dhabi, Herat, Kandahar, Dubai, Moscow, Islamabad, Istanbul, UAE
India says Afghan embassy still open despite suspension
  + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
People are seen outside the Afghanistan embassy in New Delhi, India, September 29, 2023. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsNEW DELHI, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's embassy in New Delhi continues to function, India's foreign ministry said on Thursday, days after the embassy announced that it was suspending operations. Rejecting the claims, Indian foreign ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said, "I don't think they are factually correct". “Our understanding is that the embassy in New Delhi is functioning," Bagchi told reporters. He added that the foreign ministry had been informed of the embassy's decision to halt operations and was in touch with Afghan diplomats at the embassy and consulates in Mumbai and Ahmedabad.
Persons: Anushree, Ashraf Ghani, Arindam Bagchi, Bagchi, ” Bagchi, Krishn Kaushik, Blassy, Mark Heinrich Our Organizations: REUTERS, Thomson Locations: Afghanistan, New Delhi, India, DELHI, Mumbai, Ahmedabad,
Biden, who spent eight years as Obama's vice president, told a friend that Obama couldn't even curse properly, according to “The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden’s White House and the Struggle for America’s Future." In private, Biden would “occasionally admit to friends he felt tired," the book says. She said the book was actually praising Biden for helping to push major legislation through Congress and unify global support around Ukraine. "And we’re not going to litigate here.”Foer's book also describes struggles by Vice President Kamala Harris to carve out a role for herself as Biden's No. Foer's book says Biden tried to treat Harris more respectfully than he felt Obama often had treated him as vice president, calling her “the vice president" instead of “my vice president."
Persons: Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Biden, Obama, Joe Biden’s, Franklin Foer, Donald Trump, Biden's, flailing ”, , Karine Jean, Pierre, ” Jean, , Jean, ” “, Kamala Harris, Foer, Harris, Anthony Fauci, Jake Sullivan, Ashraf Ghani, Hillary Clinton, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Sullivan, Clinton Organizations: WASHINGTON, Harvard, Ardent, White, Central, Taliban, U.S, Marines Locations: Ukraine, Scandinavia, U.S, Mexico, Afghanistan, Kabul
"We also remember the hundreds of service members from allied and partner countries who lost their lives during this 20-year war. The conflict, which spanned over four administrations, claimed the lives of nearly 2,500 U.S. service members and more than 100,000 Afghan troops, police personnel and civilians. In April 2021, Biden ordered the full withdrawal of approximately 3,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11 of that year. Taliban forces stand guard in front of Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, September 2, 2021. Evacuees crowd the interior of a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft, carrying some 640 Afghans to Qatar from Kabul, Afghanistan August 15, 2021.
Persons: WASHINGTON —, Biden, Defense Lloyd Austin, servicemembers, Austin, George W, Bush, Hamid Karzai, Stringer, Ashraf Ghani, Antony Blinken Organizations: Forward Operating Base, Department of Defense, WASHINGTON, Taliban, NATO, Defense, World Trade, Pentagon, Bagram Air Base, U.S, Afghan National Security and Defense Force, Reuters, Western, U.S . Air Force, Handout Locations: Forward Operating Base Salerno, Khost province, Afghanistan, U.S, Kabul's, New York City, Bagram, Kabul, Doha, Qatar, United States
CNN —US service members deployed on the Afghanistan withdrawal mission will receive the Presidential Unit Citation, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced Thursday, the two-year anniversary of the withdrawal. The Air Force does not appear to be included in the units receiving citations under Thursday’s announcement, an Air Force official said, though Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said at a news briefing on Thursday that more units could receive the citation in the future. “So in the statement that we put out today, it highlighted the units that have currently been awarded that recognition. The Biden administration conducted an after-action review of the Afghanistan withdrawal and released a summary of findings in April this year.
Persons: Lloyd Austin, ” Austin, , Pat Ryder, ” Ryder, Hamid Karzai, Austin, Mike McCaul, they’d, Biden, Trump, Ashraf Ghani, Christine Wormuth, ” Wormuth Organizations: CNN, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, Force, Central Command, 82nd Airborne Division, Gold Star, Army National Guard and, The Air Force, Air Force, Pentagon, Hamid, Capitol, House Foreign Affairs, Republican, Biden, Department, Marines, The Defense Department, US Central Command, Army, Marine Corps, 82nd Airborne, Command Locations: Afghanistan, Kabul
Chris Horton, a sniper with 1st Battalion, 297th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Oklahoma Army National Guard, stands with his weapon in Paktia, Afghanistan, in 2011. In this March 2016 photo, US Central Command Commander Gen. Lloyd Austin and Gold Star Wife Jane Horton talk at Headquarters Resolute Support Mission in Kabul, Afghanistan. Jane Horton, senior adviser to the acting secretary of defense, gives a speech in Kabul in December 2020. It was a place that might have even been darker than the day Chris died. Chris Horton and Jane Horton pose for a photo on their wedding day in 2009 in Cleveland, Ohio.
Persons: Jane Horton, CNN —, It’s, Chris, I’ve, Marcus Yam, who’d, Kirk Owen, , Chris Horton, ., Whitney Hughes, “ Jane, Marshal Rommel ‘ Don’t, , , Lloyd Austin, Myles Cullen, ” Maryam, Ashraf Ghani, Taylor Crul Organizations: Department of Defense, Afghan Women’s Council, CNN, Oklahoma National Guard, Los Angeles Times, Facebook, Spc, 1st Battalion, 297th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Oklahoma Army National Guard, National Guard Bureau, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gold Star, Embassy, Central Command, US Air Force, 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, III, Hamid, Airport, Twitter, State Department Locations: Georgetown University’s, Afghanistan, Kabul, Paktia, United States, Washington, Resolute, American, Paktya, , America, Cleveland , Ohio, anytown USA
[1/4] Taliban soldiers stand guard at the second-anniversary ceremony of the takeover of Kabul by the Taliban in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 15, 2023. Taliban parades were expected through the day and several departments, including the education ministry, held gatherings to celebrate. For many women, who enjoyed extensive rights and freedoms during the two decades of rule by Western-backed governments, their plight has become dire since the return of the Taliban. OBSTACLE TO RECOGNITIONGirls over the age of 12 have been mostly excluded from classes since the Taliban returned to power. For many Western governments, the ban is a major obstacle to any hope of formal recognition of the Taliban administration.
Persons: Ali Khara, Ashraf Ghani, Zabihullah Mujahid, Mujahid, It's, Amina Mohammed, Matiullah, Mohammad Yunus Yawar, Charlotte, Robert Birsel Organizations: REUTERS, Taliban, Islamic, U.S . Federal Reserve Bank of New, Swiss, Thomson Locations: Kabul, Afghanistan, Ali Khara KABUL, U.S, Western, U.S . Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Charlotte Greenfield, Islamabad
Opinion | Leaders Stay, Others Run
  + stars: | 2023-05-14 | by ( Farah Stockman | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
When war broke out unexpectedly in the streets of Khartoum, Dr. Hiba Omer, a senior surgeon, could have fled like so many others. Even after a Sudanese military official accused her on social media of siding with its enemy, the R.S.F. “I will stay here, until death. But it’s the people who stay behind who will decide the country’s fate. His famous reply — “I need ammunition, not a ride” — shamed the West into providing more aid, boosted morale and inspired a nation.
These are 7 of the most unusual, unique, or noteworthy presents gifted to President Joe Biden that year. These are 7 of the most unusual presents gifted to President Joe Biden in 2021. Putin gave Biden a $12,000 desk setLess than a year before Vladimir Putin launched his unprompted war in Ukraine, the Russian president gifted Biden a Kholuy Lacquer miniature workshop desk writing set and pen valued at $12,000, according to the State Department. Queen Elizabeth gave the president a photo of herselfThe late Queen Elizabeth gave the gift of herself during the 2021 G7 summit in England. President Joe Biden meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office of the White House, Sept. 1, 2021, in Washington.
[1/2] U.S. President Joe Biden and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy walk down the Colonnade to the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., December 21, 2022. The planning for Zelenskiy's speech began in October, according to a Pelosi aide, when she met with Ruslan Stefanchuk, chairman of Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada. Zelenskiy, Fried said, "didn’t go to Berlin, Brussels, London or Paris" for his first trip abroad since the start of the war. The optics of Zelenskiy receiving a hero's welcome as a defender of democracy carries a message far deeper than military aid. In a Senate speech he described Zelenskiy as "a leader who is fighting for his life, fighting for his country's survival and fighting to preserve the very idea of democracy."
The office of Ashraf Ghani, the US-backed Afghan president, had been informed about the problem, insiders say. The smuggling flouted Afghan laws requiring travelers to declare cash or gold worth $10,000 or more and a strict ban on exporting $20,000 or more. The documents identify the two men as being part of the 2021 smuggling ring; they do not allege who was behind the $824 million smuggled in 2019 and 2020. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani meets with President Joe Biden in June 2021. The UAE is also the home of Ghani and Noor, the former provincial governor with alleged ties to the Hairatan smuggling ring.
Sursa foto: Profimedia ImagesUltimele forțe americane și NATO au părăsit Bagram, baza cheie a forțelor aliate în AfganistanOficialii americani din domeniul apărării au anunțat că ultimele forțe americane și NATO au părăsit baza aeriană Bagram din Afganistan, centrul războiului împotriva militanților de aproximativ 20 de ani. În urma atacurilor teroriste din New York, o coaliție condusă de SUA a invadat Afganistanul, mai târziu în acel an, pentru a neutraliza ambele grupări anti-democratice. „Toate forţele coaliţiei au părăsit Bagram”, a declarat un oficialul american, sub rezerva anonimatului, fără să specifice momentul precis al retragerii din această bază, transmite Agerpres. În schimb, Reuters menţionează că Bagram, una dintre cele mai mari baze militare din Afganistan, a fost evacuată vineri. Un responsabil de la Kabul a declarat că baza Bagram va fi predată oficial sub controlul guvernului afgan în cadrul unei ceremonii care va avea loc sâmbătă.
Persons: Președintele Joe Biden, Biden, Qaeda, coaliţiei, Reuters, George W . Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, CNN, Generalul Austin Miller, îşi, american Joe Biden, Ashraf, Ghani Organizations: NATO, BBC News, World Trade Center, SUA, CNN Locations: Afganistan, SUA, Bagram, Kabul, Manhattan, New York, Afganistanul, afgan, american, Statelor Unite, americană
Cel puţin 21 de persoane au fost ucise şi 90 rănite vineri, în estul Afganistanului, într-un atac cu vehicul capcană pe care autorităţile afgane l-au atribuit talibanilor, relatează AFP, citată de Agerpres. Atacul, care a avut loc la o zi după începerea retragerii soldaţilor NATO din Afganistan, s-a produs în capitala provinciei Logar (est). Clădirea vizată a fost reşedinţa guvernatorului provinciei Logar, dar acum era utilizată ca motel. Atentatul intervine în contextul în care Statele Unite şi Alianţa Nord-Atlantică urmează să retragă trupele din Afganistan. Talibanii au intensificat atacurile mortale împotriva poliţiei şi a soldaţilor afgani de la anunţarea încheierii misiunii NATO.
Persons: autorităţile, afgan Ashraf Ghani, Aliaţii Organizations: Agerpres, Mediafax, NATO Locations: Afganistanului, Afganistan, Logar, Statele Unite, Atlantică
Sursa foto: Profimedia Images21 de morţi şi 90 de răniţi în Afganistan, după un atentat cu o mașină-capcanăCel puţin 21 de persoane au fost ucise şi 90 rănite vineri, în estul Afganistanului, într-un atac cu vehicul capcană pe care autorităţile afgane l-au atribuit talibanilor, relatează AFP, citată de Agerpres. Atacul, care a avut loc la o zi după începerea retragerii soldaţilor NATO din Afganistan, s-a produs în capitala provinciei Logar (est). Clădirea vizată a fost reşedinţa guvernatorului provinciei Logar, dar acum era utilizată ca motel. În urma exploziei, o parte a imobilului s-a prăbuşit, potrivit Mediafax. Talibanii au intensificat atacurile mortale împotriva poliţiei şi a soldaţilor afgani de la anunţarea încheierii misiunii NATO.
Persons: autorităţile, afgan Ashraf Ghani, Aliaţii Organizations: Agerpres, Mediafax, NATO Locations: Afganistan, Afganistanului, Logar, Statele Unite, Atlantică
A group of women in Afghanistan are breaking through as Gen Z influencers on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. More Afghans are online, and dozens of Afghan women have 50,000 or more followers on at least one social platform. A generation of Afghan women in their 20s have mastered the art of living their lives on social media. The 26-year-old posts several times a day, and she has more followers on Instagram than the country's president, Ashraf Ghani. Ayeda Shadab photographed at the ancient Citadel in Herat, Afghanistan.
Şeful Statului Major american, generalul Mark Milley, s-a întâlnit în această săptămână cu negociatorii talibani la Doha, în Qatar, pentru a discuta despre o „reducere a violenţei” în Afganistan, a anunţat joi Pentagonul, relatează AFP şi Reuters, preluate de Agerpres. Cele două întâlniri ar reprezenta primele contacte între şeful Statului Major al SUA şi talibani, deşi secretarul de stat Mike Pompeo şi principalii responsabili militari americani din Afganistan s-au mai întâlnit cu aceştia. „Şeful Statului Major a discutat despre nevoia unei reduceri imediate a violenţei şi a accelerării unui progres spre o soluţie politică negociată care să contribuie la stabilitatea regională şi să protejeze interesele naţionale ale SUA”, se menţionează într-un comunicat al armatei americane. Preşedintele Donald Trump va reduce numărul militarilor americani din Afganistan de la 4.500, la 2.500 până la jumătatea lui ianuarie. În Afganistan s-a înregistrat o amplificare a violenţelor, subminând cea mai bună speranţă de a pune capăt războiului care devastează Afganistanul din 2001, notează Reuters.
Persons: Mark Milley, Pentagonul, Generalul Milley, Mike Pompeo, Ashraf, Donald Trump, Reuters Organizations: Reuters, Agerpres, Major Locations: american, Doha, Qatar, Afganistan, Reuters, SUA, Orientul Mijlociu, Afganistanul
Official says US, Taliban reach Afghan truce agreement
  + stars: | 2020-02-14 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks to U.S. troops in an unannounced visit to Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, November 28, 2019. REUTERS/Tom BrennerA senior U.S.official said Friday the United States and the Taliban have reached a truce agreement that will take effect "very soon" and could lead to withdrawals of American troops from Afghanistan. The official said the agreement for a seven-day "reduction in violence" to be followed by the start of all-Afghan peace talks within 10 days is "very specific" and covers the entire country including Afghan forces. The final details were hammered out in recent days by U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad and Taliban representatives in Doha, Qatar. U.S. officials have brushed aside claims that a Taliban ultimatum forced their hand.
9 aprilie 2015: Președintele aliniază un curcubeu la Aeroportul Internațional Norman Manley înainte să plece de la Kingston, Jamaica. 16 aprilie 2015: Președintele se îndreaptă pe jos, prin grădina Casei Albe, spre sala unde este așteptat să semneze un act de reautorizare din 2015. 14 mai 2015: Președintele a găzduit un summit la Camp David cu Consiliul de Cooperare al Golfului. 8 iunie 2015: Președintele a fost la summitul G7 de la Krün, Germania. 13 iulie 2015: Președintele și personalul său de securitate națională zâmbesc la scurt timp după ce au fost informați despre acordul nuclear cu Iranul.
Persons: Pete Souza, Barack Obama, Alan Gross, Michelle Obama, Akira Cooper, Malia, Chuck Kennedy, Shaun Donovan, Montgomery, John Lewis . Fotograful, Edmund Pettus, Maxwell, Doamna, Marian Robinson, Norman Manley, Obama, cubanez Raul Castro, Președintele, Shinzo Abe, Washington, David, Laurel ., bin Mahmoud al - Said, J, Scott Thomson, Jeremy, Jeremy Bernard, Ben Rhodes, Ella, Joe Biden, Beau Biden, Sfântul Anton de, Cancelarul Angela Merkel, Katie Beirne, Rodgers, Biden, Papa Francisc . Acesta, șeic Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Ella Rhodes, națională Ben Rhodes, Vladimir Putin, Comediantul, Seinfeld Organizations: Casei, Prima, Oval, Albă, Air Force, Universitatea Tehnică din, Camera, World, Lincoln, Președintele, New Jersey ., Academia Navală, Whitney, Națională, Fotbal, FIFA, națională Locations: Cuba, Lawrence, Kansas, Akira, O’Neal, Selma, fluierând, Universitatea Tehnică din Georgia, Atlanta, Afganistanului, Elveția, Kingston, Jamaica, cubanez, american, Panama City, Panama, Japoniei, Oman, Camden, New Jersey, Annapolis, Maryland, Sfântul Anton de Padova, Wilmington, Carolina de Nord, Krün, Germania, New York, Dillingham, Alaska, Sud, Statele Unite, Abu Dhabi, Emiratele Arabe, Est, SUA, rus, Rusiei, Antalya, Turcia, San Bernardino, California
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