Afghan acting Interior Minister Abdul Sattar Mirzakwal said here on Sunday that "power will be peacefully transferred to a transitional government", local media reported.
2021-08-15 19:00Living in a dusty open park in the northern edge of Kabul city, an aged migrant from northern Kunduz city blamed the U.S.-led forces' pullout from Afghanistan for his miseries and lamented that the irresponsible forces' exit has added to Afghans' suffering.
2021-08-15 17:35The full-fledged launch of Ukraine's Agency for Defense Technologies is scheduled for 2022, the country's national news agency Ukrinform reported Friday.
2021-08-14 16:45United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday called on Taliban militants to immediately halt their offensive against government forces and return to the negotiating table in good faith, in the interest of Afghanistan, and its people.
2021-08-14 16:44Russian Defence Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu praised the joint actions of Russian and Chinese military personnel during Sibu/Interaction 2021 exercise, the active phase of which took place today in the PRC at the Qintongxia training ground.
2021-08-13 17:21After the active phase of Sibu/Interaction 2021 exercise at a meeting of the heads of the military departments of Russia and China, the Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation, General of the Army Sergei Shoigu, said that building up cooperation between the Russian and Chinese armed forces on land, in the air and at sea is an important area of military activity. departments of the two countries.
2021-08-13 17:19The Egyptian army killed 13 extremist militants in an anti-terrorism campaign in northern and central Sinai, said the military late on Thursday.
2021-08-13 11:34Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan accused the United States of seeing his country as useful only in the context of the "mess" it is leaving behind in Afghanistan after 20 years of fighting.
2021-08-12 20:11Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin discussed results of recent bilateral consultations on strategic stability during a phone call on Wednesday.
2021-08-12 15:20Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) chief William Burns met Wednesday here to discuss Iran and strengthen intelligence cooperation between the two allies.
2021-08-11 21:16Ukraine on Monday launched command-staff exercises involving all branches of its armed forces, the country's Defense Ministry said in a statement.
2021-08-10 15:41Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Monday that the U.S. administration should give up the pressure policy pursued by former U.S. President Donald Trump.
2021-08-10 15:13The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Tuesday urged the U.S. military to leave South Korea, pledging to build up the DPRK's nuclear weapons in response to the upcoming joint U.S.-South Korea military drills.
2021-08-10 14:54Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday suggested closer cooperation under the United Nations (UN) to fight crimes at sea.
2021-08-10 00:13The Republic of Korea (ROK) has tentatively decided to conduct a joint military exercise with the United States later this month as planned, despite a warning from Pyongyang, the Yonhap News Agency reported on Sunday, citing ROK government sources.
2021-08-09 00:46Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Saturday that the Lebanese group does not fear any Israeli war and is fully prepared for it.
2021-08-08 16:52Conflict in Afghanistan is in a more destructive and deadlier phase as the Taliban take provincial capitals. Since U.S. President Biden announced in May that its forces would pull out, the Taliban has attacked and pressured Afghan forces.
2021-08-08 16:45Afghanistan is at a dangerous turning point as the war has entered a new phase, said Deborah Lyons, the UN secretary-general's special representative for Afghanistan, on Friday.
2021-08-07 15:21Top diplomats of South Korea and the United States on Friday held phone talks over the Korean Peninsula issue, according to Seoul's foreign ministry.
2021-08-06 19:05United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday called for progress toward a world free of nuclear weapons on the occasion of the 76th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
2021-08-06 15:26The United States on Thursday urged the new Iranian government under President Ebrahim Raisi to return to negotiations to restore the 2015 nuclear deal, reiterating the diplomatic opportunity will not last forever.
2021-08-06 15:24United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday welcomed the appointment of Erywan bin Pehin Yusof of Brunei Darussalam as Special Envoy of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Chair on Myanmar, said his spokesman.
2021-08-05 15:25The Security Council on Tuesday condemned "in the strongest terms" Friday's attack on the UN compound in Herat, Afghanistan, which resulted in the death of an Afghan security forces guard and several injuries.
2021-08-04 23:45The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) urged on Wednesday Lebanon and Israel to cease fire and exercise maximum restraint to avoid further escalation after the firing of rockets from southern Lebanon into northern Israel earlier in the day.
2021-08-04 22:00India's first indigenously designed and built aircraft carrier Vikrant Wednesday began its sea trials off the coast of Kochi in the southern state of Kerala, officials said.
2021-08-04 21:05The Taliban and the Afghan government are far apart in U.S.-backed talks on bringing peace to the country, with the insurgents demanding "the lion's share of power" in a new government and Kabul wanting to bring them into the current government, the special U.S. envoy on Afghanistan said on Tuesday.
2021-08-04 16:24The Ukrainian Naval Forces held a passing exercise (PASSEX) in the Black Sea with the Georgian Coast Guard and the Georgian Border Police, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said in a statement Monday.
2021-08-03 22:05Iran's Foreign Ministry dismissed on Monday British and U.S. allegations regarding a reported drone attack on an Israeli-managed oil tanker in the north of the Arabian Sea, and warned it would "promptly and strongly" respond to "any possible adventure."
2021-08-03 16:10The Uzbek and Russian armed forces have started a joint military training drill "South-2021" in southern Uzbekistan near Uzbekistan's border with Afghanistan, the Uzbek Defense Ministry said Monday.
2021-08-02 23:33South Korea's defense ministry said Monday that no decision had been made yet over the joint annual military exercise with the United States this summer.
2021-08-02 16:12The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Sunday night urged South Korea to cancel its regular joint military exercises with the United States and said a North-South leader-level summit remains unlikely in the short term, the official Korean Central News Agency reported.
2021-08-02 15:02A senior official of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Sunday warned the Republic of Korea (ROK) against carrying out a planned military exercise with the United States later this month, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.
2021-08-01 22:16Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Sunday that Iran was behind the deadly drone attack on an oil tanker off the coast of Oman last week.
2021-08-01 22:09Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has restored a pact governing the presence of U.S. troops in the Philippines, the two countries' defense ministers said on Friday.
2021-07-30 14:09Indian government Thursday said it supports all peace initiatives leading towards a lasting political settlement in Afghanistan.
2021-07-30 09:10Washington is fully prepared to continue negotiation with Iran to return to the Iranian nuclear agreement, visiting U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said here on Thursday.
2021-07-30 09:07South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) restored their cross-border communication lines that had been severed for over a year, the South Korean presidential Blue House said Tuesday.
2021-07-27 14:50President Joe Biden said on Monday that U.S. forces in Iraq will end the combat mission by the end of the year while continuing to train and assist Iraqi forces.
2021-07-27 08:35The Russian navy can detect any enemy and launch an "unpreventable strike" if needed, President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday during a military parade in St. Petersburg, marking the 325th anniversary of the Russian Navy.
2021-07-26 10:54Afghan forces regained control of Dara-e-Suf Bala district in northern Samangan province, forcing the militants to flee, provincial police spokesman Munir Rahimi said Monday.
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