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IS Degraded In Afghanistan But Still Poses Threat
U.S. troops are to all withdraw from Afghanistan, some 20 years after the start of a war provoked by the deadliest terror assault on the United States.
U.S. troops are to all withdraw from Afghanistan, some 20 years after the start of a war provoked by the deadliest terror assault on the United States. Although American officials are satisfied that future militant threats can t reach U.S. shores from Afghanistan or can be defused from a distance fears and uncertainty about the future abound inside Afghanistan.
Tribal elder Dawlat Khan still has nightmares about fighters from the local affiliate of the global Islamic State terror network who swept across his and other villages in eastern Afghanistan five years ago. The extremists, including Afghans, Pakistanis, Arabs and men from Central Asia, quickly imposed a reign of terror. They kidnapped some locals who worked for the Afghan government, later dropping off t
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Afghanistan: Does US exit offer Russia a chance to fill power vacuum? dw.com 5 hrs ago Warda Imran
The US departure from Afghanistan will pave the way for regional powers to increase their clout in the war-ravaged country. Moscow has its own interests in Afghanistan, but will it cooperate with Washington? © Reuters/S. Karpukhin Moscow is wary of the possibility of Islamist-inspired terrorism spreading from Afghanistan into central Asia
The withdrawal carries the risk of further violence if the intra-Afghan talks stipulated in the deal between the Taliban and the Afghan government fails to produce a lasting power-sharing agreement.
Widespread civil conflict in Afghanistan would draw in regional players, and while US diplomacy will continue to play a central role, Russia will be paying closer attention to instability and a power vacuum on its southern doorstep.
(Last Updated On: April 18, 2021)
Sources from the High Council for National Reconciliation (HCNR) said on Sunday that envoys from the United Nations, U.S, Turkey, and Qatar in Doha are trying to convince the Taliban to attend the upcoming Istanbul Conference.
Following the announcement that all foreign troops will be out of Afghanistan by September and not May 1 as per the US-Taliban agreement signed in February last year, the Taliban said it will not participate in any conference on Afghanistan’s future until there has been a full withdrawal of all foreign forces.
On Sunday, Hajji Din Mohammad, the deputy head of the HCNR said UN and US envoys “have no meeting with us [Afghan delegation], they have put in efforts to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table in Turkey.”
(Last Updated On: April 18, 2021)
Ninety-seven people were injured on Sunday (April 18) when four train carriages derailed in Egypt’s Qalioubia province north of Cairo, the health ministry said in a statement.
Two security sources and local media reported that several people had been killed in the accident, but there was no official confirmation.
Officials did not respond immediately to requests for comment.
The train was heading from Cairo to the Nile Delta city of Mansoura and derailed at 13.54 local time (11:54 GMT), about 40 kilometres north of Cairo, Egyptian National Railways said in a short statement.
The cause of the accident is being investigated, it added.
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