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China urges NATO to withdraw nukes from Europe

IFP Media Wire -
China’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Wang Wenbin has called on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to withdraw its nuclear weapons deployed across Europe.
IFP Exclusive

Taliban caretaker PM US-designated terrorist

IFP Editorial Staff -
The Taliban on Monday named their caretaker cabinet members including an obscure figure who has a $5mn US bounty on his head. Mohammad Hassan Akhund was named as caretaker Prime Minister by the Taliban’s spokesman Zabihullah Mojahed.
Asia

Afghanistan neighbors in talks over ongoing situation

IFP Editorial Staff -
The foreign ministers of Afghanistan’s six neighbors are discussing the situation in the country in a teleconference.
Asia

Two killed, several wounded in anti-Taliban protest in Afghanistan’s Herat

IFP Editorial Staff -
Two people were shot dead and eight wounded in an anti-Taliban demonstration in the western Afghan city of Herat on Tuesday, medical sources say said.
Asia

Fire at Indonesia’s prison kills at least 40 people

IFP Media Wire -
A fire at an overcrowded jail in Indonesia has killed at least 40 people, authorities confirmed on Wednesday.
Asia

Taliban announces new Afghan govet., acting PM sanctioned and designated terrorist by UN

IFP Media Wire -
The Taliban announced the names of several acting cabinet ministers of a new caretaker government in Afghanistan. Some of the ministers are wanted by the United States.
Europe

Russia: US efforts to stop Nord Stream 2 failed, pipeline to be completed soon

IFP Media Wire -
Moscow announced years of economic sanctions and political efforts by Washington have come to nothing, and work on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is now nearing the final stages of completion.
IFP Exclusive

Massoud source: Panshir valley under resistance control

IFP Editorial Staff -
A source close to Ahmad Massoud has told Iran’s Fars News Agency that the Panshir valley is still under the control of this anti-Taliban Afghan militia commander. The source said Masoud’s fighters have surrounded the Taliban in a location and efforts are underway to persuade them to surrender.
Asia

BBC Likely Helped Assassination of Panjshir’s Fahim Dashti

IFP Media Wire -
Amid fighting in Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley between the Taliban and the National Resistance Front of local leader Ahmad Masoud on Monday, reports emerged that the NRF’s spokesman Fahim Dashti has been killed.
Asia

Heavy clashes continue in Afghanistan’s Panjshir

IFP Media Wire -
Fighting in Afghanistan's last major holdout against the Taliban rule continued after the leader of the resistance movement in Panjshir Valley called for a “national uprising” against the militant group.
Asia

UK Labour leader slams PM’s handling of Afghanistan withdrawal

IFP Media Wire -
Labour leader Keir Starmer has slammed the British Prime Minister over the ongoing developments in Afghanistan, stating that Boris Johnson is “incapable of international leadership” during a heated debate in the House of Commons on Monday.
Asia

Third person dies in Japan after receiving contaminated Moderna vaccine

IFP Media Wire -
Japanese health authorities confirmed that a third man has died, one day after receiving a second dose of Moderna COVID vaccine from one of the contaminated lots which have since been recalled.
Asia

Taliban opens fire to disperse Anti-Pakistan rally in Afghan capital

IFP Media Wire -
Hundreds of Afghans, mostly women, took to the streets of Kabul on Tuesday in an anti-Pakistan demonstration in which they chanted slogans against Islamabad and the country’s Intelligence service, ISI. The Taliban fired shots into the air, as the protests intensified.
Selected

Top senator predicts US forces back in Afghanistan soon

IFP Media Wire -
Top Republican Senator Lindsey Graham believes American troops will return to Afghanistan despite the chaotic military withdrawal from the war-torn country that was completed days ago.
Americas

Biden: US ‘long way off’ from recognizing Taliban

IFP Media Wire -
Washington is not going to recognize the Taliban as the new leadership of Afghanistan in the near future, US president Joe Biden stated on Monday days after the US forces chaotic withdrawal from the war-ravaged country.
IFP Exclusive

Panjshir Leader Calls for National Anti-Taliban Resistance

IFP Editorial Staff -
The leader of Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley front has called for national uprising against the Taliban.
Asia

Panjshir resistance denies Taliban claim over capturing province

IFP Media Wire -
The National Resistance Front (NRF) in the Afghan province of Panjshir rejected the Taliban’s claim about winning control of the region, with its fighters vowing to carry on their struggle against the militants.
Media Wire

NATO welcomes Russia, China cooperation in Afghan anti-terror drive

IFP Media Wire -
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg welcomed cooperation with Russia and China in fight against terrorism in Afghanistan, but opposed the creation of a European army following the recent developments in the war-ravaged country.
Asia

Taliban invites Iran, others to Afghan cabinet announcement ceremony

IFP Media Wire -
The Taliban has invited Iran, Russia, China and several other countries to participate in an event to announce new Afghan government, an official within the group announced.
IFP Exclusive

Abdullah urges Iran to send humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan

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Head of Afghanistan’s High Council for National Reconciliation has praised Iran for defending the Afghans in the wake of the US withdrawal from the war-hit country.
Asia

Anti-Taliban resistance spokesman killed in Panjshir

IFP Media Wire -
Fahim Dashti, the Spokesman for the National Resistance Front (NRF) of Afghanistan’s northern Panjshir province that steadfastly refuses to recognize the Taliban, has been killed in armed clashes that continue in the region.
Asia

Taliban claims full control over Panjshir, resistance denies

IFP Media Wire -
Taliban Spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid claimed that the group is in complete control of Panjshir, the last stronghold of resistance to the Taliban. This as the National Resistance of Panjshir denies the report.
Americas

White House says around 100 Americans left in Afghanistan

IFP Media Wire -
White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain estimates that around 100 Americans are still left in Afghanistan waiting to be evacuated, days after the US administration’s August deadline for getting them all out.
Asia

Taliban: Kabul airport destroyed by American troops

IFP Media Wire -
The Taliban says US forces have intentionally damaged equipment at the Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport during their withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Americas

US general warns of civil war in Afghanistan

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There is a “very good probability” that Afghanistan will descend into civil war, Army General Mark Milley warned following the chaotic US withdrawal, vowing to continue strike operations when “opportunities present themselves".
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