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KABUL: The Afghan government is set to ban video-sharing platform TikTok and online multi-player game PUBG within the next three months, an official confirmed on Tuesday, following a string of bans on content deemed immoral since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan last year. The Taliban announced a ban on both popular apps earlier this year, with the group’s Spokesman Inamullah Samangani saying in April that the move was necessary to “prevent the younger generation from being… Source link

Guy Ritchie’s new action thriller, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, is set to shoot in Alicante, Spain later this month, doubling it for Afghanistan. The Amazon film centres on Sergent John Kinley (Gyllenhall) and local interpreter Ahmed who are the remaining survivors of an ambush during a patrol in Afghanistan. After Ahmed has carried injured Kinely to safety with the local militias on their tail, Ahmed and his family are denied access to the US as promised. Kinley returns to the warzone with… Source link

In the immediate aftermath of Afghanistan’s collapse at the hands of the Taliban, China wasted no time in capitalizing on what it viewed as a public relations win. China’s Foreign Ministry called the chaotic end to U.S. presence, “a lesson in reckless military adventures,” and issued a statement, calling for “friendly and cooperative relations with Afghanistan.” But, Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer said the U.S. withdrawal from the country creates more headaches than… Source link

As the last of the U.S. troops leave Afghanistan, one geopolitics expert thinks America’s longest war left us with one key lesson. “The one big lesson is that as rightfully angry and scared as Americans were after 9/11, we made Afghanistan into an almost existential threat to the American homeland — and it was never that,” Eurasia Group Founder Ian Bremmer told Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “It was never a grade A national security priority for the U.S. It never merited a hundred-plus… Source link

The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan could make terrorist attacks inside the U.S. and abroad more likely, according to an intelligence report distributed yesterday to government and law enforcement agencies. “We assess domestic and foreign violent extremists probably are attempting to exploit the US withdrawal from and deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan to inspire attacks and recruit like-minded extremists online,” reads the Department of Homeland Security report, dated Aug…. Source link

Taliban fighters patrol in the Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) The chaotic departure of U.S. troops from Afghanistan obscures an important national-security development: The American counter-terrorism effort of the last 20 years has generally worked, while getting more efficient and much cheaper over time. U.S. troops invaded Afghanistan 20 years ago to root out the al Qaeda terrorists who perpetrated the Sept…. Source link

Suhail Shaheen, a Taliban spokesperson. Sergei SavostyanovTASS via Getty Images A Taliban spokesperson said that extending the US withdrawal deadline could provoke a “reaction.” The warning came after Biden said the US could extend its August 31 deadline to help the evacuation. Scenes of chaos and terror have unfolded at Kabul airport after the Taliban seized power. See more stories on Insider’s business page. A Taliban spokesperson warned of “consequences” if the US kept troops in Afghanistan… Source link

Soaring COVID-19 infections, combined with mass uprisings around the world, are destabilizing global order — and new research from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) suggests the collective dynamic is likely to hinder a fragile recovery. A working paper published by IMF researchers Luca Antonio Ricci, Metodij Hadzi-Vaskov and Samuel Pienknagura, PhD, recently explored the macroeconomic impact of social unrest, finding that “unrest events” are correlated to a decline in global… Source link

(White House updates numbers of evacuees) By Idrees Ali and Susan Heavey WASHINGTON, Aug 22 (Reuters) – The United States has enlisted the help of six commercial airlines to help transport people after their evacuation from Afghanistan as Washington seeks to step up the pace of departures of Americans and at-risk Afghans from Kabul. The Pentagon said on Sunday it called up 18 civilian aircraft from United Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Air and others to carry people from temporary locations… Source link

How we exited from Afghanistan is as shameful as it was avoidable. I’m sure you’ve read some of the coverage. It is an episode in our history that calls for bipartisan outrage — and there was much of that. For context and analysis I reached out to Ian Bremmer, as I often do when I find the world of global affairs vexing, and per usual he was a font of penetrating call-it-like-it-is reason replete with wow-I-never-thought-about-that insight. I was particularly interested in how our… Source link