FRAMINGHAM — After a quadruple amputation, an Army veteran who gives back to other disabled vets visited Framingham this week to continue spreading his message: There’s still fun and cool things you can do. With his good humor, retired U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Travis Mills spoke to a crowd of about 50 people Wednesday at […]
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan effectively closed a key northwestern border crossing with Afghanistan to truck drivers on Saturday, Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban said. Noor Mohammad Hanif, director of Information and Culture department in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province said that officials at the Torkham began asking for passports and visas from Afghan drivers. Truckers have for years […]
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake has rattled much of Pakistan and parts of neighbouring Afghanistan, sending panicked residents fleeing from homes and offices and frightening people in remote villages, Pakistani officials and the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. The epicentre was in the Hindu Kuch mountain range in Afghanistan, according to the Pakistan Meteorological Department. It […]
By Jonathan Landay and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Communications intercepts collected by the United States confirmed that Islamic State’s (ISIS) Afghanistan-based branch carried out twin bombings in Iran that killed nearly 100 people, two sources familiar with the intelligence told Reuters on Friday. “The intelligence is clear-cut and indisputable,” one source said. That source and […]
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Security forces in Afghanistan killed a number of Tajik and Pakistani nationals and arrested scores others involved in attacks against religious clerics, the public, and mosques, a senior Taliban official said Sunday. Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid, Taliban’s appointed defense minister, during a press conference in the capital, Kabul, said dozens of Tajiks and […]
BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar, already wracked by a brutal civil war, has regained the unenviable title of the world’s biggest opium producer, according to a U.N. agency report released Tuesday. The Southeast Asian country’s opium output has topped that of Afghanistan, where the ruling Taliban imposed a ban on its production, the United Nations Office […]