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WASHINGTON: Acknowledging that India among other countries in the region has a significant stake in Afghanistan, the Biden administration has pledged to ask regional nations to do more to support Kabul even as Washington packs up from the strife-torn country by September 11 after a failed 20-year effort to defeat …

KABUL: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Thursday to sell Afghan leaders and a wary public on President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw all American troops from the country and end America’s longest war. Blinken sought to assure senior Afghan politicians that the …

BRUSSELS/BERLIN: Foreign troops under NATO command will withdraw from Afghanistan in coordination with a US pull-out by September 11, Washington’s top diplomat said on Wednesday, after Germany said it would match American plans to leave after two decades of war. Around 7,000 non-US forces from mainly NATO countries, also from …

WASHINGTON: US troops will pack up fully from Afghanistan by September 11, 20 years after the world’s biggest terrorist attack on 9/11. President Biden will make the announcement on Wednesday, bringing an end to the longest war the U.S was drawn into, surpassing the 19 years it was bogged down …

BERLIN: The United States will deploy an additional 500 troops to Germany, Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin said during a visit to Berlin, marking a reversal of former President Donald Trump’s plans to withdraw about 12,000 troops from the Nato country. “We have ceased planning (for a troop drawdown),” Austin …

WASHINGTON: US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin will visit Germany next week as part of a foreign tour that will also take him to Israel, the UK and the NATO headquarters in Belgium. Austin will be the first of US president Joe Biden’s cabinet to travel to Germany, reports DPA news …

NEW YORK: President-elect Joe Biden on Saturday nominated US foreign policy veteran Wendy Sherman, a key negotiator of the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, to be the No. 2 official at the state department. He also nominated Victoria Nuland, a retired career foreign service officer who was the top US …