The US military killed 12 civilians in 2021, all in Afghanistan, according to a Pentagon report released Tuesday.

The Department of Defense &assesses that there were approximately 12 civilians killed and approximately five civilians injured during 2021 as a result of US military operations,& said the report, which Congress has required...

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Hurtling through the solar system at hypersonic speed on Monday, NASA&s DART spacecraft slammed itself into a distant asteroid in a test of the world&s first planetary defense system, designed to prevent a potential doomsday meteorite collision with Earth, Reuters reported.

According to Reuters the finale to the suicide spaceflight,...

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The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) has signed a provisional deal with Russia to supply gasoline, diesel, gas and wheat to Afghanistan, Afghan Commerce and Industry Minister Haji Nooruddin Azizi told Reuters.

Azizi said his ministry was working to diversify its trading partners and that Russia had offered the IEA a discount to average global...

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The US State Department says that it is not in Pakistan&s interest to see instability and violence in Afghanistan and that Washington and Islamabad continue to work closely on counter-terrorism threats.

Marking the 75th anniversary of US-Pakistan relations in Washington Monday, the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Pakistan has also...

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Saudi Arabia&s King Salman bin Abdulaziz named his son and heir Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as the kingdom&s prime minister and his second son Prince Khalid as defence minister, a royal decree showed on Tuesday.

The reshuffle kept another son, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, as energy minister, the aged king said in the royal decree,...

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There are no terrorist groups present in Afghanistan, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry said on Tuesday.

Speaking at a press conference Abdul Nafi Takoor said the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) will not &allow them to have presence. We will never allow anyone to pose a threat from Afghanistan to other countries.&

On Monday, a...

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