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Strengthening democracy and inclusive growth can protect India against Taliban The biggest reinforcement of its national security India can make is to strengthen democracy within, and enhance societal and national cohesion. America's Afghan pullout: Twenty years, four presidents and a mission that went awry The fall of Kabul wiped out the last vestige of government control after a ferocious Taliban offensive that took one major city after another in a matter of days. Taliban seek to project calm as United States speeds chaotic evacuation Thousands of Afghans, fearing a return to the Taliban's brutal rule, are trying to flee the country through Hamid Karzai International Airport.
Explainer: A short history of Taliban and its origins The Taliban's rapid sweep comes in the light of US withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan ending its two-decade long war on terror. Afghanistan spiralling into failed state where al Qaeda will thrive: UK "I'm absolutely worried that failed states are breeding grounds for those types of people," Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told Sky when asked about Afghanistan. UK defence minister says on Afghanistan: al Qaeda will probably come back "I'm absolutely worried that failed states are breeding grounds for those types of people," Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told Sky when asked about Afghanistan.
Taliban take strategic Ghazni city on road to Kabul Ghazni lies km 93 miles southwest of Kabul on the ancient route between the capital and the second city of Kandahar. The war in Afghanistan: How it started and how it is ending The Taliban military victories, especially in northern Afghanistan, where opposition to the militants has traditionally been strongest, provided a violent coda to the U.
Pakistan government is not spokesperson for Taliban, says Imran Khan Khan's remarks were a continuation of Pakistan's repeated warnings that it would not accept the responsibility if it was blamed for any setbacks in the Afghan peace process.
Endgame Afghanistan decoded: Retreating US, China-Pakistan eyeing the space, what next On July 12, the top American general in Afghanistan stepped down in a symbolic moment, as the United States nears the end of its year-old war and Taliban fighters sweep across the country. Watch more. Militia commanders rush to aid Afghan forces against Taliban Known as the Lion of Herat, Ismail Khan a veteran Tajik commander is scheduled to hold a gathering to prepare his forces to fight against the Taliban and defend his power base in Herat, an official said, adding that several erstwhile anti-Taliban commanders were supporting the over-stretched Afghan forces to defend borders in the West and the North.
Load More. Browse Companies:. Most importantly, it showed bin Laden and his associates that it was possible to put pan-Islamism into practice. After the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan in , bin Laden returned to Saudi Arabia to step up fundraising for this new and more complicated mission.
After one more year of preparation, al Qaeda struck for the first time: A bomb exploded in a hotel in Aden, Yemen, that had housed American troops on their way to a peacekeeping mission in Somalia. No Americans died in the blast, but two Austrian tourists did.
Emboldened, bin Laden and his associates embraced violent jihad in earnest. For example, they trained and armed the Somali rebels who killed 18 American servicemen in Mogadishu in National Guard training center in Riyadh that same year; and the truck bomb that destroyed the Khobar Towers, an American military residence in Dharan, in On August 7, , bombs exploded simultaneously at the U.
Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, where people were killed and 4, were injured, and Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, where 11 people were killed and 85 were injured. Al Qaeda took credit for the bombings. Then, on October 12, , a small boat loaded with explosives plowed into the hull of the U. Cole, an American naval destroyer docked off the coast of Yemen. Bin Laden took credit for that incident as well. A federal grand jury in the United States indicted bin Laden on charges related to the embassy bombings, but with no defendant there could be no trial.
Meanwhile, al Qaeda operatives were busy planning the biggest attack of all: the September 11, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
For almost ten years, he remained in hiding, issuing fatwas and taunts over radio and television, recruiting enthusiastic young jihadis to his cause and plotting new attacks. Meanwhile, the CIA and other intelligence officials searched in vain for his hiding place. Finally, in August , they traced bin Laden to a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, about 35 miles from Islamabad. For months, CIA agents watched the house while drones photographed it from the sky.
Finally, it was time to move. They found the al Qaeda leader in an upstairs bedroom with a pistol and an assault rifle nearby and shot him in the head and chest, killing him instantly. In September , President Donald Trump confirmed that bin Laden's son, Hamza bin Laden, who had been viewed as a potential successor to the al Qaeda leader, was killed in a U.
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