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By AHMAD SEIR, RAHIM FAIEZ, TAMEEM AKHGAR and JON GAMBRELLAugust 15, 2021 GMT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban fighters entered the outskirts of the Afghan capital on Sunday while panicked workers fled government offices and helicopters landed at the U.S. Embassy as the militants’ further tightened their grip on the country. Three Afghan officials told […]
Rebecca Falconer The U.S. began evacuating diplomats from the American embassy in Kabul and sent more troops to its airport, as the Taliban entered the outskirts of the Afghan capital on Sunday, per multiple reports. Driving the news: Helicopters began landing near the embassy to conduct “rapid shuttle-run flights,” hours after the Taliban captured the […]
This is a choice about the kind of world we want and allies we’ll support. So far we’re choosing to lose. My friends have said I’m angry and taking the withdrawal from Afghanistan personally. They’re right. We weren’t forced out and the losses we sustained in the early years had abated to such an extent […]
Ryan SaavedraAug 14, 2021 A major earthquake struck Haiti on Saturday morning as the island nation still struggles to recover from a devastating earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands back in 2010. The 7.2 magnitude earthquake reportedly struck off the coast of Haiti at a depth of seven miles and was felt hundreds of miles […]
REUTERS AUGUST 14, 2021 12:55 Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said on Saturday he was consulting with local leaders and international partners on the situation in the country, as the Taliban continues its rapid advance. “As your president, my focus is on preventing further instability, violence and displacement of my people,” Ghani said in a brief […]
A US official on Friday warned that Israeli construction in Judea and Samaria would inflame Israeli-Palestinian Arab tensions while impeding efforts to achieve a two-state solution, Haaretz reports. “We believe it is critical for Israel and the Palestinian Authority to refrain from unilateral steps that exacerbate tensions and fundamentally undercut efforts to advance a negotiated […]
US president said a month ago that the now-unfolding situation would be ‘highly unlikely’; 3,000 troops rushed back to evacuate embassy staff and Afghans who worked with Americans By SHAUN TANDONToday, 11:29 pm Internally displaced Afghan families, who fled from the northern province due to battle between Taliban and Afghan security forces, sit in the courtyard […]
The Jerusalem Post Podcast with Lahav Harkov and Yaakov Katz LAHAV HARKOV AUGUST 13, 2021 06:44 A year after US president Donald Trump tweeted the announcement that Israel and the United Arab Emirates were making peace and establishing diplomatic relations, former assistant to the president and special representative for international negotiations Avi Berkowitz looks back […]
As the UN warned that a Taliban offensive reaching the capital would have a “catastrophic impact on civilians,” the US and Germany urged all their citizens to leave Afghanistan immediately REUTERS AUGUST 13, 2021 09:03 The Taliban claimed control over two of Afghanistan’s biggest cities on Thursday, according to media reports, as the United States […]
The large-scale network was built with the help of North Korea and is much larger than Hamas’ ‘metro’ network in Gaza. ANNA AHRONHEIM AUGUST 13, 2021 10:18 A new report released by the ALMA Center has exposed a large-scale inter-regional tunnel network belonging to Hezbollah, stretching across Lebanon and designed to allow the group to […]
A pickup truck with a rocket launcher is seen in Chouaya, Lebanon, August 6, 2021. REUTERS/Karamallah Daher The Israeli military said on Thursday it downed a drone belonging to the Lebanese Hezbollah group that crossed into Israeli airspace from Lebanon. In a brief statement, it said the incident occurred on Wednesday. “Our troops monitored and […]
Summary U.S., Britain to deploy troops for evacuations Taliban claim Herat amid heavy fighting Kandahar also on brink of falling – source Taliban also capture Ghazni on main road south of Kabul KABUL, Aug 12 (Reuters) – The United States and Britain said on Thursday they would send thousands of troops to Afghanistan […]
An Iranian news outlet published what it said was footage of the control room as a warning shot was fired at an American MQ-9 Reaper drone. TZVI JOFFRE AUGUST 12, 2021 11:18 Iranian air defenses fired a warning shot at a General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper belonging to the US military near the Strait of Hormuz […]
BESA CENTER4 Elul 5781 – August 12, 2021 After many years of calm, the Lebanese border is heating up. The latest barrage of rockets into the Galilee was carried out by Hezbollah in response to an extensive attack by the Israeli Air Force in southern Lebanon on August 5. That attack was itself a response […]