![]() ![]() Officials say the migrants aboard the boat which capsized last week had departed from Libya toward Italy. The coast guard could not confirm whether he bodies recovered on Monday belonged to victims of the shipwreck, when asked by AFP. They will appear before a magistrate on Tuesday. Nine Egyptian men have been detained as suspected people smugglers. ![]() They have so far rescued 104 people from the trawler, which rescuers said was carrying “hundreds” of migrants. They were found in the sea west of the Peloponnese peninsula, the area where an overloaded trawler capsized and sank on Wednesday, she told AFP.Ĭoast Guard vessels have not stopped looking for possible survivors. Daesh claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it parked an explosive-laden car on the road and detonated it when the police chief’s car passed by.ĪTHENS: Greece’s coast guard on Monday said it had found three bodies during a search for survivors after last week’s tragedy in which at least 78 migrants died in the Ionian Sea.Ī coast guard spokeswoman said the bodies “were in a state of decomposition” and their gender could not be immediately identified. Last December, a car bombing killed Badakhshan’s provincial police chief as he was on his way to work. Targets have included Taliban patrols and members of Afghanistan’s Shiite minority. The Daesh group has increased its attacks in Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover of the country in August 2021, following the withdrawal of US and NATO troops after two decades of war. That attack, which killed the deputy governor’s driver and wounded 10 others, was also claimed by the Daesh group.Ī former Taliban police official was among those killed in the memorial service explosion, said the Taliban interior ministry spokesman, Abdul Nafi Takor. The memorial service was being held for Nisar Ahmad Ahmadi, the deputy governor of Badakhshan killed in a car bombing on Tuesday in Faizabad. The militant group’s statement gave higher casualty figures than those provided by the Taliban-run government, claiming that at least 20 senior Taliban officials died and 50 others were injured. In a statement late Friday, the Daesh regional affiliate - known as the Islamic State in Khorasan Province - said the attacker targeted the service near Nabawi Mosque in the city of Faizabad in Badakhshan province on Thursday. The video in the media player above was used in a previous report.ISLAMABAD: The Daesh group claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing on a memorial service in northeast Afghanistan that killed at least 13 people and wounded 30 others. "The question fundamentally facing him was after 20 years was he going to commit more American troops to a civil war in Afghanistan," Psaki said. troops from Afghanistan by May 2021, would have led to an escalation of attacks on American troops. military involvement, considering former President Donald Trump had already agreed to withdraw U.S. He added, "I will not send another generation of Americans to war in Afghanistan, with no reasonable expectation of achieving a different outcome."īiden said he didn't trust the Taliban but trusted the capacity of the Afghan military to defend the government.īefore his speech, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Biden administration officials always anticipated an "uptick" in violence and greater turmoil as the U.S. "How many more, how many more thousands of American daughters and sons are you willing to risk?" Biden said to those calling for the U.S. The effort to further explain his thinking on Afghanistan comes as the administration in recent days has repeatedly sought to frame ending the conflict as a decision that Biden made after concluding it's an "unwinnable war" and one that "does not have a military solution." military operations even as the Taliban make rapid advances in significant swaths of the country. "Afghan leaders have to come together and drive toward a future."īiden also amplified the justification of his decision to end U.S. "We did not go to Afghanistan to nation build," Biden said in a speech to update his administration's ongoing efforts to wind down the U.S. 31, saying "speed is safety" as the United States seeks to end the nearly 20-year war. military mission in Afghanistan will conclude on Aug. ![]() ![]() WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden on Thursday said the U.S. troops from Afghanistan and end America's longest war. President Joe Biden addressed the nation Wednesday, saying he will withdraw the remaining U.S. ![]()
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