Western Afghanistan was rocked by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake on Sunday, marking the area’s fourth quake of that magnitude in recent days.
The epicenter was reported to be about 20 miles outside of Herat, the provincial capital. Save the Children reported four confirmed deaths so far, and Herat Regional Hospital received 153 injured. Everything in the Baloch area of Rabat Sangi district has collapsed, with several villages being destroyed.
The earthquakes that occurred on October 7th had already levelled whole villages in Herat According to United Nations officials, over 90 percent of the more than 2,500 people people killed a week ago were women and children. Mud-brick homes, schools, health clinics, and other village facilities were demolished, and survivors left struggling with the loss of multiple family members.
Volunteers are still arriving to help sift the debris and dig mass graves as the region tries to recover from the natural disaster.
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Western Afghanistan was rocked by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake on Sunday, marking the area's fourth quake of that magnitude in recent days.
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Four British nationals taken prisoner in early 2023 in Afghanistan have been released by the Taliban on Tuesday morning, according to the British Foreign Office.
Two of the four were named as 54-year-old Kevin Cornwall, who operated as a United Nations (UN) aid worker and paramedic in the country, and 23-year-old, self-described “danger tourist” Miles Routledge, known by his online pseudonym “Lord Miles”. The identities of the other two are yet to be announced.
Cornwall was accused by the Taliban of being a spy after authorities allegedly found a firearm hidden in his hotel room. Lord Miles claimed he was arrested after withdrawing $1,000 from Western Union bank.
Bizarrely, the British Foreign Office issued a groveling statement to the Taliban: “On behalf of families of the British nationals, we express their apologies to the current administration of Afghanistan for any violations of the laws of the country.
“The U.K. government regrets this episode,” the statement added.
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Four British nationals taken prisoner in early 2023 in Afghanistan have been released by the Taliban on Tuesday morning, according to the British Foreign Office.
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The death toll from two 6.3-magnitude earthquakes that struck Afghanistan has reached over 2,445, according to the Taliban’s Ministry of Disasters. Many people are still trapped under the rubble in Afghanistan, but despite the increasing death toll, foreign aid and volunteers remain limited.
Governments overseas remain reluctant to deal with the Taliban after they seized full control of the country during Joe Biden’s botched withdrawal. Aid agencies and NGOs have appealed to the international community for support, but only a few countries, including neighboring Pakistan and China, have offered assistance.
People in the affected areas are facing multiple challenges, including a lack of medical infrastructure, food, shelter, and clean water. Another earthquake in Afghanistan in June 2022 took the lives of at least 1,000 people.
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The death toll from two 6.3-magnitude earthquakes that struck Afghanistan has reached over 2,445, according to the Taliban’s Ministry of Disasters. Many people are still trapped under the rubble in Afghanistan, but despite the increasing death toll, foreign aid and volunteers remain limited.
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Two 6.3 magnitude earthquakes struck Afghanistan on Saturday, resulting in the deaths of hundreds, according to a spokesperson for the country’s national disaster authority. The United States Geological Survey reported the 6.3 magnitude, with an epicenter located 40 kilometers (24.8 miles) northwest of Herat city. An aftershock measuring 5.5 magnitude was also recorded.
Residents of Herat reported at least five quakes around noon, local time, prompting them to evacuate their homes and seek safety. The World Health Organization dispatched ambulances. Videos shared on social media revealed hundreds of people gathered outside their homes and offices in Herat. Telephone connections have been disrupted, hampering communication. Local media reports the quakes were also felt in neighboring Afghan provinces of Farah and Badghis, as well as in parts of Iran.
Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban-appointed deputy prime minister for economic affairs, offered his condolences to the victims of the earthquakes in Herat and Badghis. This incident follows a powerful earthquake in June 2022, which resulted in the deaths of at least 1,000 people and injuries to approximately 1,500 more in eastern Afghanistan.
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Two 6.3 magnitude earthquakes struck Afghanistan on Saturday, resulting in the deaths of hundreds, according to a spokesperson for the country's national disaster authority. The United States Geological Survey reported the 6.3 magnitude, with an epicenter located 40 kilometers (24.8 miles) northwest of Herat city. An aftershock measuring 5.5 magnitude was also recorded.
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A new military tell-all book, titled ‘Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End,’ sheds light on the events that led to the suicide bombing at Kabul airport in 2021 which killed 13 American troops and around 170 Afghan civilians. The incident was seared into the memories of Americans, as they watched Joe Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan unfold before their eyes.
Now, in addition to the murder of random civilians during the withdrawal, authors Jerry Dunleavy and James Hasson claim in the new book that relying on the Taliban for security during the chaotic evacuation set the foundation for a tragic ending. The authors accessed intelligence files that show US officials understood a violent attack or bombing was imminent. Operational decision-makers were too beholden to Taliban security officials, however, which caused missed opportunities to counter the responsible ISIS-K terror cell.
According to co-author James Hasson, mistakes made by leaders in Washington throughout the withdrawal compounded the risk to the troops on the ground. The book details at least two opportunities US forces had to disrupt the attack. Intelligence of an impending ISIS-K attack on American troops manning entry points surfaced nine days before the tragic events at the Abbey Gate.
The threat of an attack was so high, in fact, that Marines were ordered to kneel throughout the night to reduce their exposure to an explosion.
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A new military tell-all book, titled 'Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden's Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End,' sheds light on the events that led to the suicide bombing at Kabul airport in 2021 which killed 13 American troops and around 170 Afghan civilians. The incident was seared into the memories of Americans, as they watched Joe Biden's botched withdrawal from Afghanistan unfold before their eyes.
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An Afghan interpreter who survived working alongside U.S. special forces fighting the Taliban for ten years has been shot and killed in Mayor Muriel Bowser’s Democrat-run Washington, D.C.
Nasrat Ahmadyar, a father-of-four, is said to have “come to America to be safe,” according to Jeramie Malone, who assists Afghans resettling in the U.S.
Photographs taken in Afghanistan show Nasrat wearing military fatigues and carrying a rifle alongside American special forces members. After fleeing to America following Joe Biden’s botched withdrawal from the country, which is now more under Taliban control than it was before the 2001 invasion, he initially settled in Philadelphia, but moved due to concerns it was too violent.
D.C. proved no safer for Nasrat, however, as he was killed by a gunshot to the stomach while working as a Lyft driver. Surveillance footage shows four males running from the scene of the crime, but no one had been arrested as of the time of publication. He was the tenth person killed in the American capital over a period of just five days.
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An Afghan interpreter who survived working alongside U.S. special forces fighting the Taliban for ten years has been shot and killed in Mayor Muriel Bowser’s Democrat-run Washington, D.C.
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U.S. government officials appear to be climbing down from claims that a man slain in a Hellfire missile strike in Syria on May 3rd was a “senior Al Qaeda leader.” Similar to the drone stroke that killed an aid worker’s family after Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal, the truth appears to be that the deceased was just a poor farmer in a field.
In early May 2023, Pentagon officials boasted about the kill, carried out by a Predator drone, but even the Washington Post now reports they are walking back their claims, with evidence mounting that the man they killed was an ordinary civilian.
“We are no longer confident we killed a senior AQ official,” one defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, admitted to the newspaper.
Another, also anonymous official conceded “the strike did not kill the original target” as well, yet insisted they still “believe the person to be al-Qaeda.”
But Charles Lister, the Middle East Institute’s director for Syria and Countering Terrorism and Extremism, told WaPo the the White Helmets organization attended the scene “[v]ery quickly after this strike” and “identified the individual with his name and his profession.”
“Locals came forward to say, this guy’s always been a farmer. He’s never had any political activities; he’s never had any affiliation with armed groups,” Lister said, noting that the “pace and breadth of such push-back was actually quite unusual.”
WaPo identified the victim as 56-year-old Lotfi Hassan Misto, and interviewed eight people including his brother and son, who insist he was an ordinary man whose “whole life was spent poor.”
“If they claim that he’s a terrorist, or that they got someone from al-Qaeda, they’re all liars,” Misto’s brother said.
Zemari was killed along with up to nine others, including seven children, as the Biden regime scrambled to regain credibility following an Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISIS-K) attack during the withdrawal from Afghanistan, which killed a number of American servicemen.
The government initially claimed the strike that killed Ahmadi eliminated “high profile” ISIS-K militants.
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