LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two explosions killed dozens of people, including at least 13 U.S. troops, ripping through the crowds outside Afghanistan’s main airport on Thursday, just hours after Western governments had warned of an imminent Islamic State attack and told their people to stay away from the airport. The attack, by at least two suicide…
LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (NEWWSRANGERS)-Acting swiftly on President Joe Biden’s promise to retaliate for the deadly suicide bombing at Kabul airport, the U.S. military said it used a drone strike to kill a member of the Islamic State group’s Afghanistan affiliate Saturday. The strike came amid what the White House called indications that IS planned to…
LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)- – The son of Ahmad Shah Massoud, one of the main leaders of Afghanistan’s anti-Soviet resistance in the 1980s, has pledged to hold out against the Taliban from his stronghold in the Panjshir valley. In a Washington Post editorial, Ahmad Massoud, the 32-year-old son of the former mujahideen commander, said members…
LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Footage of armed Taliban fighters marching in the city of Qalat was uploaded to social media on Thursday. Dressed in white head-to-toe uniforms and flak jackets, the Islamist militants carried firearms as they marched in a straight line through the city centre. Reuters was able to verify the videos by geo-locating monuments…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (EWSRANGERS)-Heartbreaking footage of a US military aircraft leaving Kabul this week showed at least one person falling to their death. The small dot of a person plunging back to earth highlighted how desperate people were to escape the Taliban after the militant organisation seized control of the country. Thousands of people stormed…
LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The U.S. Air Force has confirmed that human remains were found inside the wheel well of a C-17 military plane that had been swarmed by hundreds of people on the tarmac as it took off at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. The discovery was made upon landing at al Udeid Air…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It is no longer news that the Islamist Movement and Military organization known as Taliban has taken control of key facilities and cities in Afghanistan after taking control of the country’s capital, Kabul. This recent development occured after the US government withdrew it’s military forces away from the country in honour of…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The spokesman for the Taliban’s political office on Sunday declared the war was over in Afghanistan and called for peaceful relations with the international community. Spokesman Mohammad Naeem said in interviews with Al Jazeera TV the Taliban did not want to live in isolation and the type of rule and the form…