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2021-07-25 11:57 The US military left Bagram Airfield - its key base in Afghanistan - in the dead of night without notifying the Afghans, the bases new commander said. General Asadullah Kohistani told the BBC that the US left Bagram at 03:00 local time on Friday, and that the Afghan military found out hours later. Bagram also contains a prison, and there are reportedly up to 5,000 Taliban prisoners left in the facility. The Taliban have been advancing rapidly in Afghanistan as U...

Published July 25, 2021, 2:22 PM The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) paid its final tribute to the late former President Benignoy Aquino III on Saturday, July 24. Three volleys of fire are fired by military personnel as the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) ends its 30-day mourning and pays its final tribute to the late former President Benigno Aquino III at Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City on July 24, 2021. (Photo courtesy of AFP) Lt. Gen. Erickson Gloria, AFP vice chief of staff, presi...

US launched recent air strikes in Afghanistan published : 23 Jul 2021 at 07:45 The runway at Bagram air base outside of Kabul, Afghanistan, after the US turned the base over to the Afghan government. WASHINGTON: The United States recently carried out air strikes as it backed the Afghan armys bid to repel a Taliban offensive, the Pentagon said Thursday, with the withdrawal of international forces from the country all but complete. "In the las...

The headlines on bbc news: a tunisian teenager has caused a major surprise at the tokyo olympics by winning a swimming gold, while team gb has claimed a first silver medal. bradly sinden narrowly missed out on taekwondos top prize. the head of us central command has said the us will continue air strikes in support of afghan troops if the taliban continue their current offensive. plans to require football fans to be fully vaccinated for premier league matches from october, are considered by the u...

Advertisement Kabul: US military aircraft struck a number of Taliban positions this week in support of faltering Afghan government forces, in one of the first significant American reactions to the insurgents’ blistering advance across Afghanistan as US troops withdraw. At least one of the strikes was against Taliban positions in the key southern city of Kandahar, slowing an advance that threatened to take over the city. The view from a police and army outpost in Afghanistan’s Kandahar provi...

US Launched Recent Air Strikes In Afghanistan: Pentagon 07/22/21 AT 8:12 PM The United States recently carried out air strikes as it backed the Afghan armys bid to repel a Taliban offensive, the Pentagon said Thursday, with the withdrawal of international forces from the country all but complete. "In the last several days, we have acted through air strikes to support to the ANDSF," said Pentagon spokesman John Kirby, referring to Afghan government forces. "We continue to... conduct airstrikes i...

US Airstrikes Target Taliban, Military Equipment in Afghanistan Voice of America 23 Jul 2021, 08:35 GMT+10 The United States has launched about a "half-dozen" airstrikes across Afghanistan in the past 30 days, part of an effort to support Afghan security forces attempting to hold the Taliban at bay. A U.S. defense official told VOA on Thursday that the strikes, most of them carried by U.S. drones, targeted "captured military equipment that the Taliban [were] able to seize from the ANDSF [Afghan...

US launches airstrikes to support Afghan forces, confirms Pentagon Top Searches US launches airstrikes to support Afghan forces, confirms Pentagon AFP / Jul 23, 2021, 07:42 IST FacebookTwitterLinkedinEMail Security personnel inspect a damaged vehicle which was firing rockets in Kabul, Afghanistan. WASHINGTON: The United States recently carried out air strikes as it backed the Afghan armys bid to repel a Taliban offensive, the Pentagon said Thursday, with the withdrawal of international forces...

US launched recent air strikes against Taliban in Afghanistan: Pentagon Updated Jul 23, 2021 | 09:16 IST A Taliban spokesman on Thursday told Russian media that the group now controlled 90 per cent of Afghanistans borders, but the claim could not be independently verified. US drone&nbsp | &nbspPhoto Credit:&nbspANI Kabul: The United States recently carried out airstrikes as it backed the Afghan armys bid to repel a Taliban offensive, the Pentagon said Thursday, with the w...

US carried out airstrikes in Afghanistan, says Pentagon US carried out airstrikes in Afghanistan, says Pentagon The US carried out airstrikes across Afghanistan in the last several days in a bid to extend support to the Afghan security forces fighting Taliban insurgents, the Pentagon said. advertisement UPDATED: July 23, 2021 09:57 IST US carried out airstrikes in Afghanistan in last several days, said the Pentagon. (Image for representation: Reuters) The US carried out airstrikes across Afghan...