Month: August 2021

Shaunae Miller Uibo and Faith Kipyegon retained their titles as Allyson Felix became the most decorated female Olympic track and field athlete of all time in a sparkling penultimate session … Read More

Afghan security forces have for days been telling residents in the western city of Herat to evacuate areas where the Taliban have dug in, warning them to clear out ahead … Read More

Lebanon reported 1,461 COVID-19 and six deaths in the last 24 hours, the Health Ministry said Friday.

The Taliban cannot be trusted to keep their promise to China not to harbour Islamist militants seeking separatism in its Xinjiang region, Afghanistan’s ambassador to China told Reuters, a week … Read More

Hezbollah fighters who fired rockets towards Israeli forces from Lebanon on Friday were intercepted by locals afterwards, the group said, a rare challenge to the Iran-backed Shi’ite movement as its … Read More

Central Asian leaders sounded the alarm over the spiral of war in neighbouring Afghanistan at a summit in Turkmenistan Friday, as US-led forces withdraw from the country and the Taliban … Read More

] The city of Zaranj in Afghanistan’s Nimroz province fell to the Taliban on Friday, provincial police said, making it the first provincial capital the insurgents have captured as they … Read More

These centuries-old images, rendered by flint onto igneous rock, also offer a valuable record of a bygone era – and a land drastically reshaped by millennia of climate change. The … Read More