Aghanistan

Tigers head for Lahore to salvage Asia Cup campaign

Bangladesh cricket team left Kandy for Colombo early on Friday Morning and are scheduled to take a chartered flight to Lahore in Pakistan with their Asia Cup campaign hanging in the balance.

Afghan clinic bombing ‘not a war crime’

A US air strike that destroyed a medical charity's clinic in northern Afghanistan, killing 42 people, was not a war crime, the Pentagon has said.

Taliban splinter group names leader

A breakaway Afghan Taliban faction has appointed its own leader, underlining deep divisions in the group following the death of founder Mullah Omar.

September 1, 2023
September 1, 2023

Tigers head for Lahore to salvage Asia Cup campaign

Bangladesh cricket team left Kandy for Colombo early on Friday Morning and are scheduled to take a chartered flight to Lahore in Pakistan with their Asia Cup campaign hanging in the balance.

April 30, 2016
April 30, 2016

Afghan clinic bombing ‘not a war crime’

A US air strike that destroyed a medical charity's clinic in northern Afghanistan, killing 42 people, was not a war crime, the Pentagon has said.

November 5, 2015
November 5, 2015

Taliban splinter group names leader

A breakaway Afghan Taliban faction has appointed its own leader, underlining deep divisions in the group following the death of founder Mullah Omar.