Month: January 1970

Less than a month after the 9/11 attacks, American and allied forces began combat operations in Afghanistan, targeting al Qaeda and the Taliban regime that had been giving al Qaeda … Read More

Read CNN’s Hassan Nasrallah Fast Facts for a look at the life of the secretary-general of Hezbollah, a Lebanese Shiite Muslim militant group.

In late 2001, the rolling hills to the west of Afghanistan’s Maidan Shahr were scarred with the black eruptions of high explosives, as the last few Taliban fighters were pounded … Read More

At least 20 people were killed and 79 injured in a fuel tank explosion in the Akkar region in northern Lebanon, the Lebanese Red Cross said on its Twitter account … Read More

As the Taliban takes hold of the Afghan capital, Kabul’s citizens wait anxiously to see how life under the Islamist regime will unfold.

Just last week, US intelligence analysts had predicted it would likely take several more weeks before Afghanistan’s civilian government in Kabul fell to Taliban fighters. In reality, it only took … Read More

Hundreds of people poured onto the tarmac at Kabul’s international airport, desperately seeking a route out of Afghanistan on Monday, after the Taliban’s sudden seizure of power sparked a chaotic … Read More

In Dubai’s Jebel Ali port, DP World is testing its “BoxBay” technology, which aims to speed up and automate the way shipping containers are stored, moved and shipped.

On Wednesday night, Lebanon’s Central Bank issued an announcement that seemed to finally sound the death knell on the country’s floundering economy.

In less than a week, the Taliban has overrun one-quarter of Afghanistan’s provincial capitals in a huge swathe of territory across the north of the country. The security situation here … Read More