Trump, Afghanistan and Bagram Air Base
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Far above Kabul, the cash-strapped Taliban Government has located a potentially lucrative revenue stream: Afghanistan’s airspace. As Israel and Iran’s exchange of missiles threw flight paths into disarray this year,
FIRST ON FOX: A Republican congressman is disputing Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s insistence that the State Department did not block citizens from leaving Mazar-i-Sharif Airbase in Afghanistan during the frenzied withdrawal. Rep. Warren Davidson, R ...
Although deportation flights have been occurring under President Donald Trump in 2025, the image shows 600 Afghans on a U.S. military plane that left Kabul in August 2021, according to Reuters. The Trump administration revoked a decision that would have ...
Eastern Afghanistan is mountainous, with remote areas and the quake has worsened communications. Blocked roads are forcing aid workers to walk four or five hours to reach survivors. Dozens of flights have operated in and out of Nangarhar Airport ...
President Joe Biden is set to address the nation as the crisis intensifies. United States troops have taken control of the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, as chaos continues after Afghanistan's president fled the country over the weekend and the Taliban ...
An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 struck Afghanistan late on Thursday night, as reported by the National Centre for Seismology (NCS).
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Trickle of earthquake relief from the West shows a new foreign-aid dynamic shaping up in Afghanistan
After the earthquake, the United Nations issued an urgent appeal for nearly US$140-million; it has raised about $40-million, with Ottawa contributing $3-million. The World Health Organization has also airlifted in 35 tonnes of medicine. The United States, which gave US$55-million after a 2022 earthquake in Afghanistan, has donated nothing.
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Hundreds killed as 6.0 magnitude earthquake strikes Afghanistan, destroying villages, officials say
The strong earthquake struck about 17 miles east of Jalalabad, near the border with Pakistan, according to preliminary data from the U.S. Geological Survey.
A magnitude 6 earthquake has hit Afghanistan near its border with Pakistan, killing more than 1,400 people, according to the government. Flooding and debris have hampered rescue efforts. At 11:47pm (19:47 GMT) on Sunday,
Downing Street forced to deny ‘one in, one out’ deal with France is a ‘shambles’ after two failed deportation attempts
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