As the insurgents swept through Afghanistan they inherited an arsenal of US-made equipment.

A band of veteran Afghan leaders, including two regional strongmen, are angling for talks with the Taliban and plan to meet within weeks to form a new front for holding negotiations on the country’s next government, a member of a group said. Khalid Noor, son of Atta Mohammad Noor, the once-powerful governor of northern Afghanistan’s Balkh province, said the group comprised of veteran ethnic Uzbek leader Abdul Rashid Dostum and others opposed to the Taliban’s takeover. “We prefer to negotiate collectively, because it is not that the problem of Afghanistan will be solved just by one of us,” Noor, 27, told Reuters in an interview from an undisclosed location.

US regulators are investigating the firm after customers reported accidents on its exercise bikes.

New Delhi [India], August 29 (ANI): Stating that the toy industry has a huge market of around Rs 6 to 7 lakh crore in the world, Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his monthly radio programme ‘Mann Ki Baat’ on Sunday stated that the country’s youth have resolved to make an impact of Indian toys globally.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hurricane Ida was crossing the Gulf of Mexico as a major hurricane early Sunday, on track for a potentially devastating landfall on the Louisiana coast while emergency officials in the region grappled with opening shelters for displaced evacuees despite the risks of spreading the coronavirus. The National Hurricane Center predicted Ida could be an extremely dangerous Category 4 hurricane with 130 mph (209 kph) winds when it makes an expected afternoon landfall. The storm arriv

UCLA beats Hawaii 44-10 for its first nonconference victory and first win in a season opener under coach Chip Kelly, and everything felt different.