The Taliban have executed the brother of Amrullah Saleh, the former Afghan vice president who challenged the Taliban’s claims to government, his nephew said on Friday. Saleh said in the days following former President Ashraf Ghani’s fleeing that led to the fall of Kabul to the Taliban that, according to the country’s 2004 constitution, he is the “legitimate caretaker president.” He made…
Brother of Afghanistan’s Constitutional ‘Caretaker President’ Executed by Taliban, Family Says
France Refuses to Recognise Taliban: Foreign Minister
PARIS—The Taliban are lying and France will not have any relationship with its newly-formed government, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said late on Saturday before heading for talks in Qatar on Sunday to discuss future evacuations from Afghanistan. “They said they would let some foreigners and Afghans leave freely and (talked) of an inclusive and…
Rescuers Ran Toward the Falling Towers: Heroism Amid the 9/11 Tragedy
Jeffrey Smith was a sales director working just over a block from the Twin Towers when terrorists attacked 20 years ago. He laments the lesser-known death toll that has followed 9/11, such as those caused by the toxicity of the air: “I got a four-element mask, you know, optimized to the dangers … I ended…
Body of US Marine Killed in Kabul Attack Returns Home
The body of a U.S. Marine killed in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan returned home to Massachusetts on Saturday, the 20th anniversary of the attacks that led to America’s longest war. A procession including Marines, local and state police, firefighters and city officials escorted the hearse bearing Sgt. Johanny Rosario Pichardo’s flag-draped casket on Saturday….
UN Employees Face Harassment and ‘Fear for Their Lives’ in Afghanistan
United Nations (U.N.) employees in Afghanistan are being subjected to “harassment and intimidation” at the hands of the Taliban since the terrorist group’s swift takeover of the war-torn nation last month, according to U.N. staff members. “We are, however, increasingly worried by the growing number of incidents of harassment and intimidation against our national staff,” U.N. special…
Canada Helped 145 Afghan Refugees Flee Overland to Pakistan
OTTAWA—Canada has helped 145 Canadian−bound refugees flee Afghanistan overland to Pakistan. A spokesman for Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino says all 145 have Canadian visas and are now being processed in Pakistan and will be on their way to Canada within “days or weeks.” Alexander Cohen says most of the refugees are Afghans who helped Canada…
9/11 Terrorists Failed to Undermine Freedom and Democracy: UK’s Johnson
The perpetrators of the 9/11 terrorist attacks failed to undermine freedom and democracy and failed to make the world live in fear, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in a message marking the 20th anniversary of the attack. He said the terrorists “tried to destroy the faith of free peoples everywhere in the open societies…
20 Years After 9/11: Did War on Terror Achieve Its Objective?
Twenty years after the Sept. 11 attack a question remains if the mission in Afghanistan achieved its objective of eradicating terrorism. Allen Weiner, an international legal scholar and senior lecturer at Stanford University, said that the initial goal to destroy al-Qaeda’s base in Afghanistan was largely achieved. “Al-Qaeda’s training camps in Afghanistan were destroyed, many…
Taliban Response to Afghan Protests Increasingly Violent, UN Says
GENEVA—The U.N. rights office on Friday said that the Taliban response to peaceful marches in Afghanistan has been increasingly violent, with authorities using live ammunition, batons, and whips and causing the deaths of at least four protesters. Protests and demonstrations pose a challenge to the Taliban as it seeks to consolidate control after seizing the…
US News
RSS Error: A feed could not be found at `https://www.theepochtimes.com/c-us/feed`; the status code is `200` and content-type is `text/html; charset=utf-8`
Work to Identify 9/11 Victims Persists; Civilians Lead Rescue Ops in Afghanistan
Twenty years after 9/11, forensic scientists are still working to identify victims of the New York terror attacks. And they’re having some success, as we hear from Mechthild Prinz, who was an assistant director at New York’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner back in 2001. Then, in America Q&A we ask: If regular COVID-19…