WASHINGTON – The United States has okayed the release of Guantanamo Bay’s oldest prisoner Saifullah Paracha (73). Suspected of having contacts with Al Qaeda, Paracha (a Pakistani) was detained in Bangkok in July 2003 and taken to Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan, before being transferred to ...

DOHA (TRT World): Mullah Muhammad Nabi Omari was held for nearly twelve years in the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison, and is today part of the Taliban delegation that met with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for the Afghan peace talks. On September 13, 2020, a former US Guantanamo detainee, ...

MOSCOW - Since late 2001, the United States has appropriated and is obligated to spend an estimated $6.4 trillion through Fiscal Year 2020 in budgetary costs related to and caused by the post-9/11 wars,” the Costs of War Project reported link in a November 13 paper. The Brown University-based ...

ISLAMABAD - Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani announced Tuesday that he will free Anas Haqqani, the brother of a feared militant leader whose eponymous group is considered one of the most dangerous factions fighting Afghan and US-led NATO forces in Afghanistan. The release of Haqqani and two ...

*ISLAMABAD - Boeing 737 slid off a runway into a river after crash-landing at a Florida naval air station Friday, officials said. No fatalities have been reported.* The plane carrying 143 people, including a crew, from Guantanamo Bay in Cuba ended up in shallow water next to the air station in ...

KABUL - The Taliban announced Tuesday a 14-member team to meet American negotiators this month in Doha, including five former Guantanamo Bay inmates and a high-profile militant behind bars in Afghanistan. United States special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad has undertaken extensive recent peace talks ...

Kabul: The Taliban will send representatives to multilateral talks in Russia on war-torn Afghanistan this month, the militant group said, as the international community ratchets up efforts to end the 17-year conflict.  Moscow announced Saturday it would host the meeting on November 9 to ...

KABUL – The Taliban will send representatives to multilateral talks in Russia on war-torn Afghanistan this month, the militant group said Tuesday, as the international community ratchets up efforts to end the 17-year conflict. Moscow announced Saturday it would host the meeting on November 9 ...

KABUL - Afghan Taliban Guantanamo Bay prisoners have become their chief negotiators with US. Five members of the Afghan Taliban who were freed from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in exchange for captured U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl have joined the insurgent group’s political office ...

ISLAMABAD – The arrival of a mysterious plane that reportedly took off from Israel and landed in Pakistan – with both having no diplomatic ties – has set the tongues wagging, however, the facts attributed with the said flight reveal an altogether different story. According to the ...