Source: The Guardian By Emma Graham-Harrison in Kabul Two months ago, Mohammed Murtaza Turkmeni gathered up his savings and bought his first Kalashnikov. He was born, educated and started a family against […]
ImageWrestlers gather at the Maiwand Wrestling Club in Kabul on Sept. 6, the morning after a suicide bomber killed as many as 30 there.CreditCreditWakil Kohsar/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images By […]
Source: Reuters By Abdul Qadir Sediqi, James Mackenzie KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan police and volunteer groups of armed civilians tightened controls across the capital Kabul on Wednesday ahead of Ashura, the […]
Shamim Ahmadi risked her life to educate herself and now she wants to inspire others Taylor Simmons · CBC News · Posted: Sep 17, 2018 Shamim Ahmadi is beginning her […]
Updated 27 sec ago HUSSAM AL-MAYMAN September 11, 2018 Saudi Arabia provides economic and humanitarian aid as well as other means of assistance to help in Afghanistan The insurgents are […]
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Source: Wall Street Journal By Craig Nelson, Ehsanullah Amiri and Habib Khan Totakhil KABUL—Two bomb blasts just minutes apart tore through a mainly Shiite Muslim neighborhood in the Afghan capital on […]
Source: The Guardian BY Emma Graham-Harrison The Afghan Taliban will travel to Moscow for peace talks next month in a high-profile embrace of public diplomacy that will be a landmark for the group […]
Source: The Guardian The Taliban have fired a pair of rockets towards the presidential palace in Kabul during a live broadcast by Ashraf Ghani to mark the Muslim celebrations of Eid al-Adha, […]
Source: Associated Press By AMIR SHAH KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — As Afghanistan’s Shiites mourned their dead and held funeral services Thursday, the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the horrific […]
Afghanistan Taliban withdraws protection for Red Cross Source: BBC News The Taliban says it will no longer allow safe passage to Red Cross staff working in Afghanistan. The militants accuse […]
Are ISIS Fighters Prisoners or Honored Guests of the Afghan Government? Source: The New York Times By Najim Rahim and Rod Nordland SHEBERGHAN, Afghanistan — The top commander of the Islamic State […]
Source: Reuters KABUL (Reuters) – Thirty-nine people were killed in a suicide bombing of a Shi’ite mosque in eastern Afghanistan, and the death toll may climb further, police and government […]
Taliban Surge Routs ISIS in Northern Afghanistan Source: The New York Times By Najim Rahim and Rod Nordland MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan — More than 200 Islamic State fighters and their two top […]
Source: CNN News By Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN (CNN)A student used a Facebook Live Stream to prevent the deportation of an Afghan asylum seeker on board an Istanbul-bound plane at Gothenburg […]
Source: The New York Times By Rod Nordland and Jawad Sukhanyar KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban insurgents are refraining from attacking Afghan civilians for the first time in many years, according to Afghan […]
Source: Time By Tariq Ali Bakhiet Ambassador Tariq Ali Bakhiet is the Director General of Political Affairs for the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the second-largest intergovernmental body in the world; […]
As Germany’s interior minister joked about deporting 69 refugees on his birthday last week, news emerged that one of those Afghan deportees had committed suicide in Kabul. The man’s […]
King Salman chairs the Cabinet session in Jeddah on Tuesday. SPA Arab News July 17, 2018 The forum urged all Afghan factions to halt the fighting and work toward “reconciliation […]
Kabul Despatch | International Ruchi Kumar July 14, 2018 Afghan Sikh men carry the coffin of one of the victims of the July 1 blast in Jalalabad. | Photo […]