Tag: Taliban
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Taliban warns to send 2,000 suicide bombers to Washington DC: report
Late last year, the Taliban reportedly told the US that it would send 2,000 suicide bombers to Washington, D.C., if the Biden administration implemented a plan to station the same number of soldiers at the US embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. According to a report by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), a watchdog group…
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Trump warns Taliban will ship U.S. military equipment to China to be ‘re-engineered’
Former President Donald Trump chastised the Biden administration for abandoning US military equipment in Afghanistan. He warned that the Taliban would use US military night-vision goggles to enable “night fighting,” and ship the “most sophisticated” resources to China and other adversaries to be “re-engineered.” In an interview with Fox News, the former president criticized the…
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Al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahri appears in video marking 9/11 anniversary
Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri appeared in a video commemorating the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, months after rumors that he was dead spread. The video was released Saturday, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadist websites. In it, al-Zawahri declared that “Jerusalem Will Never Be Judaized” and praised al…
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Taliban holds hostage 6 planes chartered by Glenn Beck charity to rescue Americans
The Taliban grounded six planes on a mission to rescue more than a hundred Americans attempting to flee Afghanistan on Monday, as talks with the State Department continued. The evacuation effort was part of a mission chartered by Mercury One, the charity founded by Glenn Beck, the founder of TheBlaze. Newsweek confirmed the details through an NGO…
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Taliban Blackhawk: a man hanging below Black Hawk helicopter or not?
A video appears to show the Taliban flying seized US Black Hawk helicopters over Afghanistan, including one with a person hanging from a rope below one. “Our Air Force!” Talib Times — which claims to be the English-language official account of the Taliban-run Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan — gloated on Monday. “At this time, the…
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Afghan TV Show host surrounded by Taliban with guns tells public not to be afraid
This is the shocking moment an Afghan TV news presenter reads out the headlines while surrounded by armed Taliban soldiers. The clip was shared online by the TV studio after the militants stormed the building and demanded the news anchor praise the Taliban. In the 42-second clip, which was going viral on social media, the news anchor…
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Trump says US should demand all weapons be handed over from the Taliban
Former President Trump said on Monday that all US weaponry in Afghanistan must be returned, and if not “we should go in with unequivocal force and get it.” “Never in history has a withdrawal from war been handled so badly or incompetently as the Biden Administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan,” Trump said in a statement. “In…
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What is Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K)?
The Islamic State Khorasan (ISK) is blamed by Americans for Thursday’s deadly suicide attacks outside Kabul airport. It was formed in eastern Afghanistan six years ago and quickly grew into one of the world’s most dangerous terror threats. Despite years of military targeting by the US-led coalition, the Islamic State Khorasan group has survived to…
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How many U.S. service members died in Kabul airport attack?
A U.S. military official late Thursday, that at least 13 U.S. service members has died following terror attacks in Kabul airport on August 26. At least a dozen more American service members were critically hurt, including 11 Marines and one hospital corpsman from the US Navy. Several service men are thought to be critically injured.…
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Kabul explosions: At least 40 dead and 120 wounded in critical condition
Multiple explosions have been reported outside of Kabul, Afghanistan’s airport Thursday, injuring at least 3 U.S. Marines, officials tell Fox News. One of the explosions took place outside the Baron Hotel, sources say.
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