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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan bombed major cities in Afghanistan including the capital Kabul on Friday (Feb 27), with Islamabad’s defence minister declaring the neighbours at “open war” following months of tit-for-tat clashes.Afghan forces attacked Pakistani border troops on Thursday night in what the Taliban government said was retaliation for earlier deadly air strikes, while AFP journalists in Kabul and Kandahar heard blasts and jets overhead.Relations between the neighbours have plunged in recent months, with land border crossings largely shut since deadly fighting in October that killed more than 70 people on both sides.Islamabad accuses Afghanistan of failing to act against militant groups…

BREAKINGBREAKING, Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Kabul reports explosions and anti-aircraft fire as Pakistan bombs the capital city.Listen to this article | 1 mininfoPublished On 27 Feb 202627 Feb 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2Shareplus2googleAdd Al Jazeera on GoogleinfoPakistan has bombed Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, and other cities as fighting spread following attacks by Afghan forces against Pakistani military positions along their shared border earlier.Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Kabul, Nasser Shadid, reported early on Friday that a bombing raid targeted the Afghan capital at 1:50 am local time (21:20 GMT), followed by a second air raid.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listAfghan…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Senate Republican warned Thursday that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s primary focus is shedding American blood as U.S.-Iran relations continue to simmer. “The Ayatollah not only thinks that I’m going to hell because I don’t agree with his religion — he wants to kill me,” Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., said on the Senate floor Thursday.”He wants to kill Americans and the Israelis and anybody who does not believe in his jihad and drink our blood out of a boot,” Kennedy continued. “And he’s acted on that, and that’s not acceptable.” Sen. John Kennedy, R-La.,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Officials on Wednesday accused a Los Angeles officer of insurance fraud after he allegedly went skydiving multiple times while collecting full disability benefits.Christopher Brandon Carnahan, 43, of Norwalk, was charged Monday after allegedly exaggerating an on-duty injury sustained in 2023, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.Carnahan is a veteran officer who has been with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) for 18 years, according to WatchTheWatchers.net, citing California public records.”This case is about honesty and accountability,” Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman said in a statement. Christopher…

The mother of 22-year-old Ezra Cool says her son “needed help and he didn’t get it.” On Feb. 6, Cool checked himself into the hospital in Vernon, B.C., and was involuntarily admitted under B.C.’s Mental Health Act. His mother, Christal Cool, says he was experiencing psychosis with no prior history.“He thought he was being drugged. He thought his family was being held hostage at knife point. There’s no prior history. This was just out of the blue,” she said.Six days later, at around 5:30 a.m., Ezra escaped the hospital wearing only socks and hospital clothing while a nurse was on…

Austin Smotherman matched the best score of his career – a nine-under 62 – to take a one-stroke lead over Nico Echavarria at the PGA Tour’s Cognizant Classic.Smotherman became only the seventh player to shoot 62 or better at PGA National in this event.The others are Jake Knapp (59 in round 1, 2025), Australian Matt Jones (61 in round 1, 2021), Brian Harman (61 in round 2, 2012), Chris Kirk (62 in round 2, 2023), Brandon Hagy (62 in round 2, 2021) and Tiger Woods (62 in the final round, 2012).”It was a pretty easy round,” Smotherman said, “on a…

Earlier in the week, the prosecution laid out their case: that Duterte played a “pivotal” role in a campaign of extrajudicial killings that saw thousands murdered.Duterte personally drew up death lists, incited murders and then boasted about them afterwards, prosecutors alleged.They showed multiple videos of the former president threatening to murder alleged drug users and joking about his skills in extrajudicial killing.But Kaufman said the prosecution had “cherry-picked” speeches, ignoring what he said were dozens of examples of Duterte stressing the need to act within the law.”Do not kill if you are not in danger of losing your life,” Kaufman…

new video loaded: Russia Launches Major Attack Hours Before U.S.-Ukraine TalksRussia unleashed a series of drone and missile strikes on Ukraine on Thursday, injuring at least 20 people and damaging buildings in eight different regions.By Meg FellingFebruary 26, 2026

As the U.S. military’s partnership with artificial intelligence giant Anthropic teeters on the edge of collapse, the Pentagon’s top technology official told CBS News the department has offered compromises in order to reach a deal with the company.The Pentagon has given Anthropic until Friday at 5:01 p.m. to either let the military use the company’s AI model for “all lawful purposes” or risk losing a lucrative Pentagon contract. The AI startup has sought guardrails that explicitly bar its powerful Claude model from being used to conduct mass surveillance of Americans or carry out military operations on its own. The Pentagon’s chief…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Megan Marx reflected on the challenges of grief three years after receiving a rare brain disorder diagnosis.The “Bachelor Australia” star was diagnosed with spinocerebellar ataxia in 2022, a rare and incurable neurological disorder that affects coordination and mobility.”There is a kind of grief that rarely earns a name,” she wrote in an essay for Mamamia. “It is not the grief of death, nor even the grief that follows a diagnosis. It is the grief of the life we imagined we might live, and the slow recognition that it will not arrive.” Megan…