The United States will help build new border facilities in Tajikistan along the Central Asian country’s border with Afghanistan to respond to potential terrorist or other security threats, said the U.S. Embassy in Dushanbe this week. The facility will be constructed in Tajikistan’s southern tip and will replace an old facility to allow border guards to “deploy forces…
Biden Administration Helps Secure Tajikistan’s Border With Afghanistan
Effort to Rescue Girls Soccer Team From Afghanistan
An international effort is underway to evacuate members of Afghanistan’s girls national soccer team and their families over fears of reprisal by the Taliban. The effort, known as Operation Soccer Balls, suffered a setback last week after a suicide bomb was detonated at the airport in Kabul. There have been at least five failed attempts…
NTD News Today Full Broadcast (Sept. 2)
Locals in Louisiana help each other other cope with the aftermath of Hurricane Ida. We have some inspiring stories of donation efforts popping up in New Orleans. New York City experienced huge impact from storm Ida. Major transportation systems completely under water, and entire homes are destroyed. The debate on Afghanistan has started in the…
Can China Replace the US in Afghanistan?
September 2, 2021
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Commentary There is a school of thought that international relations is a zero-sum game: if you’re winning, then I’m losing. Nowhere is this more apropos than in the case of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. According to this zero-sum argument, the “loser”—the United States—is obvious. But who is the winner? The Taliban, of course, but…
Mysterious Audio Recording Threatens Afghans Who Aided US
In an audio recording, Tarana music blares in the background while a man speaking Pashto asks his superior for permission to “hunt down everyone” on lists of Afghans who helped the United States. The unnamed speaker—who sources believe is a Taliban combatant—asks whether those captured should be killed, suggesting methods of execution. The recording, obtained…
Raab Meets Emir of Qatar to Discuss Safe Passage out of Afghanistan
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab visited the Qatari capital of Doha on Thursday to discuss the prospect of opening safe passages for foreign and Afghan nationals who wish to leave Afghanistan. The trip is part of a diplomatic mission to rally regional powers to exert pressure on the Taliban to keep its promises of bearing down…
Claims That Internal Document Warned of Early Afghanistan Collapse ‘Wrong’: UK Foreign Office
The British Foreign Office has denied that an internal document, which painted a bleak picture of the situation in Afghanistan just weeks before the fall of Kabul, was at odds with its official position or intelligence-based assessments. Reports which suggest that the document warned of a faster-than-anticipated fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban are “wrong…
Former Kabul Embassy Worker Helps Afghan Refugees in Philadelphia as He Awaits Wife and Children
The hasty pullout of U.S. forces from Afghanistan has created a desperate situation for thousands of Americans and Afghan nationals who aided the United States who are still stranded in the country as they hope to be allowed evacuation by the Taliban. Meanwhile in Philadelphia, an Afghan man is volunteering with an immigration agency to help…
WH National Security Adviser Declines to Call Taliban an Enemy: ‘It’s Hard to Put a Label on It’
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan refused to brand the Taliban an enemy of the United States during an appearance on MSNBC on Aug.31. Sullivan appeared on the show just days after the final withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, which has seen the Taliban take control of the capital after the leader of the U.S.-backed…
White House National Security Adviser Declines to Call Taliban an Enemy: ‘It’s Hard to Put a Label on It’
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan refused to brand the Taliban an enemy of the United States during an appearance on MSNBC on Aug.31. Sullivan appeared on the show just days after the final withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, which has seen the Taliban take control of the capital after the leader of the U.S.-backed…
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