(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Turkey and Qatar today have become the referents of the Western world in Afghanistan, their diplomatic and intelligence network is growing day by day within the country. Main objective: to counter, as far as possible, competition from China and Russia, the only countries, together with Pakistan, which have kept open the [...]
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The Taliban are ready to announce the new government after three weeks of talks. This was stated by a member of the cultural commission quoted by Tolo News. According to an Afghan analyst quoted by the broadcaster, there will be dozens of technical ministries. Tolo News also reported the presence of Pakistan's intelligence chief in Kabul. The director of the powerful [...]
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Yesterday the first aircraft since it was closed following the deployment of Western forces, a freighter from Qatar, landed at Kabul airport. It is clear to everyone that Qatar played a key role in the return of the Taliban to Afghanistan but it also played a key role in organizing flights [...]
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(by Pasquale Preziosa - President of the Security Observatory - EURISPES) Overall, the Costs of War Project has estimated that 241 thousand people died as a result of the war in Afghanistan. Among them, over 2.400 members of the US armed forces and at least 71 civilians, as well as 78.000 Afghan soldiers and policemen and 84 fighters from insurgent groups. [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) A few hours ago the news broke, at least five rockets were launched against the Kabul airport but were intercepted by the American anti-missile system. There seem to be no casualties at the moment. Fox reports citing American defense sources. According to rumors, reported by other media, citing witnesses, the rockets were launched [...]
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The last flight of the Italian Air Force for the humanitarian airlift between Afghanistan and Italy landed at Fiumicino airport, carrying 110 people, including 58 Afghans. Also on board the ambassador Pontecorvo, the consul Claudi and the carabinieri of Tuscania. Pontecorvo explained that 120 thousand people were taken away from the town and, now that [...]
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The pilot carried out, as required by the operating procedures, an evasive maneuver to protect the aircraft and passengers. No injuries and no damage reported by the aircraft. In a note, the General Staff specified that with regard to what was reported by the press about the event that involved after take-off from [...]
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The difficult day in Kabul was marked by a series of explosions. The first at one of the airport gates where Afghan civilians are crowded, reported by CNN. It would be a suicide attack that resulted in the wounding of some civilians and numerous victims. Although the budget will tend to increase, at [...]
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The Pentagon told the press that in the past 24 hours, Americans have evacuated 19 people from Kabul airport. Five flights carrying 1.220 evacuees landed at Washington International Airport. "We are racing against the clock," said General Taylor, deputy chief of staff. For the BBC they rose to 82.300 [...]
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Today the extraordinary G7 summit was held remotely, organized by the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to discuss international security, migrants and respect for human rights with a particular focus on the situation in Afghanistan in light of the expected withdrawal date of the American military, the 31 August next. While on the one hand the [...]
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An answer is urgently needed. The deadline of August 31, 2021, as the expected date for the Americans and allies to leave Afghanistan, is close even if there are still thousands of desperate Afghans and foreigners amassed at Kabul airport. It is no coincidence that Biden told the nation last Sunday that the evacuation would be "hard and painful" and [...]
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Some of the top Taliban leaders are gathering in Kabul these days to discuss the formation of a new Afghan government. A representative of the country's most feared terrorist group, known as the Haqqani Network, will also be part of the new cabinet. The Haqqani have been accused of having performed the [...]
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Yesterday, the Foreign Minister, Luigi Di Maio was heard by Copasir (Parliamentary Committee for the Security of the Republic) on the Afghanistan dossier and the descending repercussions on national security in relation to migratory flows and the probable resurgence of terrorism risk. At the Copasir the director of Dis, Elisabetta Belloni had already been heard while [...]
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Afghanistan possesses enormous and unspecified mineral riches: oil, iron, gold and precious gems, deposits of copper, lithium and rare earths. A countervalue, writes Il Sole24Ore, estimated by the Americans at three trillion dollars. The US withdrawal from the country, followed by that of coalition allies, is a tempting opportunity for those in [...]
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Last night the first flight of the Air Force departed from Kabul, thus starting the evacuation plan developed by the Defense in the context of the operation called “Aquila Omnia”. "That party is the first of the flights that will continue to take off from Kabul in the coming days for the repatriation of our compatriots and Afghan collaborators". It [...]
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According to US intelligence forecasts, the Taliban would be close to taking Kabul. This is what officials of the Biden administration report to the Washington Post, explaining that the US military believes that Kabul could capitulate within the next 90 days, while other more pessimistic forecasts bring the date of the Taliban conquest to the next 30 days. The sources of [...]
read moreThe Afghan peace does not hold up, making fear the worst for the future of a national reconciliation process opened with great clamor on 12 September last. The signing in Doha on February 29, 2020 of an agreement between the United States and Taliban rebels should have led to an easing of tensions and a withdrawal [...]
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The United States has signed an agreement with Taliban rebels that could pave the way for a complete withdrawal of foreign soldiers from Afghanistan in the next 14 months and represent a step towards the end of the 18-year war. The agreement was signed in the Qatari capital Doha by US special envoy Zalmay [...]
read moreThe toll of the attacks carried out in Kabul during the Persian New Year is serious. The series of explosions, which hit the Afghan capital while the Nowruz celebrations - the Persian New Year - were underway, left 6 dead and 23 injured. The news was disclosed by a government spokesman specifying that [...]
read moreThe Taliban rejected the Afghan government's offer of a ceasefire and said they would continue with their attacks. So reported the militant commanders, while the militants ambushed three buses taking hostage almost 200 passengers traveling to Kabul for a period of [...]
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According to Mohammad Yusouf Ayubi, head of the provincial council of the province of Kunduz, a group of Taliban have taken more than 100 people hostage in an embassy in northern Afghanistan. Ayubi said that the insurgents blocked three buses traveling on a road near the Khan Abad district bound for [...]
read moreAccording to an official from the health ministry, the death toll from a suicide bombing targeting a private school in Kabul has risen to 48. Most of the victims were students, with an average age of 18, who were preparing for university entrance exams in a [...]
read moreRadical change of strategy. US diplomatic officials organized secret meetings with Taliban leaders without the presence of the Afghan government. For over a decade, the Taliban have refused to negotiate with the Afghan government, which they view as a Washington-controlled puppet regime. Instead, they tried to speak directly with the United States, without [...]
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According to reports from Interior Ministry spokesman Najib Danish, a suicide bomber blew himself up near the Kabul airport, causing at least 11 deaths and 14 injuries. According to the story provided by Danish, the bomber was spotted by police but blew himself up before being stopped. The attack took place a few minutes later [...]
read moreAl-Jazeera has announced that the toll of the attack carried out yesterday by militiamen against an electoral registration center in Afghanistan has risen to 63 dead. Among the victims 27 women and 8 children, while the injured are more than 120. The kamikaze attack, launched in the capital in Kabul against a school set up in the center of [...]
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A suicide bomber blew himself out of a voter registration center in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing at least 57 people and injuring over 100 in the most serious attack that tends to threaten the October elections. The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack on a project of fundamental importance for credibility [...]
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The death toll involved in the explosion of a car bomb that blew up today near a compound hosting foreign contractors is still unknown. The news was made known by TV Tolo and confirmed by the Interior Ministry reporting that a suicide bomber blew up the vehicle in which he was traveling in the Dispichari area, along the Jalalabad Road of the capital. [...]
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A violent explosion was recorded in the diplomatic zone in Kabul. From the first indications, it seems that a kamikaze blew himself up in the area of the Afghan captain where there are several foreign embassies and also government ministries. The news was released by an Afghan police officer. It is not yet known the [...]
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Eleven soldiers died in the attack on the Afghan Military Academy in Kabul which was claimed by the Islamic State. It is the third attack in ten days in the city, after the one against a hotel on January 20 and after the explosion of an ambulance in the center on Saturday, not to mention the attack on Save The Children in Jalalabad. The presidency had [...]
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The escalation of violence gives no respite to Afghanistan and in particular to its capital Kabul, where a new attack took place in the very early hours of the morning after the recent attack on the hotel frequented by Westerners and the bloody massacre a few days ago when an ambulance loaded with TNT caused over one hundred deaths in [...]
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The terrorist attack on the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul carried out by 4 men seems to have ended. The death toll is still unclear. News from the place speaks of 10 people killed (4 terrorists - 5 Afghan civilians and 1 foreign civilian). "The attack is over, all the assailants have been killed, 126 people have been saved, including [...]
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Of the four terrorists responsible for the attack, two were killed and seven people were injured in the attack that took place at the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul. This was stated by Nasrat Rahimi, deputy spokesperson for the Afghan interior ministry, explaining that security forces have secured the first and second floors of the hotel and are now looking for [...]
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Special forces are fighting gunmen, Interior Ministry spokesman Najib Danish said. An official from the Afghan spy agency told AFP that the gunmen were "shooting guests". The attack began at 21:00 local time (16:30 GMT), Mr Danish said. There were no immediate details of [...]
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