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BIRMINGHAM: Migration from Asia and the Middle East to Western Europe could provide the kind of vibrant boost to arts and culture as movement from India and Pakistan did to UK food tastes over the past 40 years, a leading artist and academic has said. Professor Bashir Makhoul, practising artist …

US president calls apparent death an “important milestone” after several drones attack his Mansoor’s car in Pakistan. US President Barack Obama has said Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was killed in a US strike. In a statement on Monday, he called Mansour’s death an “important milestone”. “We have removed …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Addressing a pre-ministerial press conference in Brussels on Wednesday, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that the alliance foreign ministers due to meet on Thursday and Friday where they discuss future support for Afghanistan. “We will discuss our future support for Afghanistan, including plans for our Resolute …

A car bomb in a predominantly Shia district of the Iraqi capital has killed at least 50 people and wounded at least 100 others, police sources told Al Jazeera. An SUV packed with explosives blew up near a beauty salon in a bustling market at rush hour in Baghdad’s Sadr …

KABUL: Ali Haidar Gilani, the son of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister, Yusuf Reza Gilani, was rescued during a joint U.S-Afghan operation in Ghazni province on Tuesday morning. Gilani had been held hostage for three years by a suspected al-Qaeda-affiliated group. The Afghan ambassador to Pakistan, Omar Zakhilwal, on his Facebook …

The death penalty will deliver neither the justice that victims deserve nor the security that Afghanistan seeks, Amnesty International said today. Six men were executed on May 8, 2016 after they were convicted for their involvement in a series of high-profile violent attacks – including the 2011 killing of former …

A few years ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin praised the United States and its NATO allies for taking on the “burden” of fighting terrorism in Afghanistan and urged them to “carry it to the end.” But the Kremlin today appears to have embarked on a new policy aimed at turning …

The political transition in Afghanistan in 2014 has led to a turbulent phase in that war-torn country and the withdrawal of foreign forces has resulted in high civilian and police casualties. Radha Kumar, the Director General of the Delhi Policy Group (DPG), a think tank, is of the view that …

Pakistan is rejecting Afghan demands for military action against Taliban commanders within Pakistan and emphasizes the need to continue talks for a settlement to the conflict in Afghanistan. In Islamabad Tuesday, Pakistani foreign policy adviser Sartaj Aziz dismissed demands by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani that Pakistan evict Taliban insurgents through …

The main faction of the Afghan Taliban led by Mullah Akhtar Mansoor may return to the negotiating table with Afghan government representatives despite escalating violence in Kabul which has dented peace efforts. The Taliban expressed their willingness to resume the fledgling peace process following recent talks between the group’s interlocutors …