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The NATO has shortly after the end of their deployment in Afghanistan started the first training program for Afghan soldiers abroad. According to information from the dpa news agency, members of the Afghan special forces were flown to Turkey for a course on Wednesday . It is intended to be the prelude to regular training opportunities outside of Afghanistan. Read also:  The Taliban Behead An Interpreter For US Troops A NATO spokesman confirmed the start of the training program, but did not want to comment on the location or details for security reasons. "In addition to continued funding and diplomatic presence, NATO's continued support for Afghanistan also includes the training of Afghan special forces outside the country," he said. Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and the heads of state and government of the other 29 alliance states had promised Afghanistan at their summit in June that they would continue to provide aid after the end of the military mission. "We reaff...

In Tunisia, which is slipping into political chaos, President Kais Saied announced after the government was disempowered that he would now crack down on corruption. At a meeting with the UTICA union, however, Saied said there was  no intention of harming or abusing business people According to Saied, 460 people stole 13.5 billion dinars (around 4.1 billion euros) from Tunisia. He spoke of "wrong economic decisions" that would have led to major financial problems. If people returned the money, they could reach a "criminal settlement" instead of being "prosecuted and imprisoned," said Saied, a former law professor who won the 2019 election with a campaign against corruption. On Wednesday, Saied deposed the head of state television, Mohammed al-Dahach, and appointed an interim director, the president's office announced. The Tunisian police have also temporarily arrested two reporters from the New York Times. A spokeswoman for the US newspaper confirmed th...

US President Joe Biden has announced the end of the US combat mission in Iraq by the end of the year.  Our joint fight against ISIS is critical to the stability of the region and our counter-terrorism cooperation will continue even if we shift to this new phase that we are going to talk about After his meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kasimi in the White House, there should be more details about the switch to a US advisory and training mission, government circles said. Read more:  Withdraw US troops from Afghanistan Biden said U.S. soldiers would stay in Iraq to train and assist Iraqis. The troops had fought against the terrorist militia Islamic State in Iraq. The then US President Barack Obama decided in 2014 to send soldiers back to Iraq after ISIS captured large parts of the west and north of the country. At the end of last year, there were around 2,500 US soldiers in the country. Former US President Donald Trump had ordered that the number of soldiers be reduce...

In Afghanistan, the Taliban are expanding their control over parts of the country. Austria still wants to continue deportations. The SPD calls for a deportation stop. Austria's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz warns the European Union of an increase in the number of refugees after the withdrawal of Western troops from Afghanistan.  This is dramatic for the people there, it will lead to migration flows The politician said that he was of the opinion that Afghanistan's problems could not be solved by taking in large numbers of people in Germany and Austria, as in 2015. He is therefore "very happy" that the line has changed compared to the uncontrolled immigration of 2015 in Europe and Germany. Read more:  The beheading of  Afghan  translator for US troops As the European Union, we have to take action this summer to prevent things from happening again as they were back then Insecurity in Afghanistan has increased significantly in the past few weeks since the Taliban advanced . ...

They promised they wouldn't but they did. Sohail Pardis, a 32-year-old who had worked for 16 months as a translator for US troops, was traveling from Kabul to the nearby Khost province to pick up his sister and celebrate the Feast of Sacrifice together. The boy had received serious threats and accusations of "traitor" for his past work. So the moment he came across a makeshift Taliban-flagged checkpoint in the middle of the desert, he knew he couldn't stop. He stepped on the accelerator. Read more:  The US is providing US $ 100 million to  Afghanistan Witnesses tell the Red Cross that those were the last moments of Pardis. The combatants opened fire on the vehicle, leaving the interpreter badly wounded. They took him out of the car, took a knife and cut his throat. That assassination has sowed unease among the hundreds of Afghans who worked for the retreating international troops. Many have received threats similar to those of Pardis and fear for their lives and those...

The US is providing US $ 100 million (about 85 million euros) for people fleeing Afghanistan, where the Taliban are advancing as troops are withdrawn. The funds are for "unexpected, urgent needs of refugees and migrants, victims of conflict and other people at risk because of the situation in Afghanistan," said a statement by the Biden government on Friday. The funds are also intended to support former US aid workers in Afghanistan. Around 20,000 Afghans who worked in the country as interpreters for the US Army during the war are now fearful of retaliation from the insurgents and have applied for special visas for the USA. The money could be spent both bilaterally and through contributions to international organizations, nongovernmental groups, governments or US agencies, the statement said. Tajikistan wants to take in 100,000 refugees Afghanistan's neighbor Tajikistan has agreed to accept tens of thousands of Afghan refugees. It is "currently possible to take in aro...

The Indian government reacted vigorously, but without a clear denial, to the suspicion that opposition politicians, human rights activists and official officials in the country were investigated with the aid of the Pegasus spying program of the Israeli cyber company NSO Group. An international journalist consortium was able to evaluate a list of potential targets with more than 50,000 telephone numbers that had been leaked to the association Forbidden Stories and Amnesty International. Indian phone numbers are also numerous among the phone numbers that may have been targeted. Read also:  The personal mobiles of the President of the Republic France, Emmanuel Macron Information Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw called the reports on Pegasus in Parliament "extremely sensational" and "many allegations" in this context "exaggerated". Referring to a statement made by the maker of Pegasus, the Israeli company NSO Group, about the alleged irrelevance of the leaked data, h...

Pegasus is currently considered by experts to be the most powerful surveillance program for cell phones and is classified as a cyber weapon. NSO has continuously developed its flagship product. Initially, an SMS was sent with a link that the victim had to click. Only then could Pegasus install itself on the device. In the meantime, the owner of a cell phone no longer even notices when the device is attacked by the espionage program. NSO goes to great lengths to find unknown security gapsin all programs that run on a mobile phone. 860 programmers work for the company. A large part of them are busy finding such gaps in apps and mobile operating systems. One person with insider knowledge said the average number of targets per customer per year was 112. With 45 customers that would be just over 5,000 targets attacked with Pegasus. For months, reporters from numerous countries have been researching where, how and against whom the espionage software Pegasus from the Israeli company NSO is us...