Source: The Local The German embassy was massively damaged and workers were injured in a vehicle bomb attack in the Afghan capital on Wednesday morning that has killed at least 80 people. In one of the worst attacks in Kabul in recent years, the German embassy was hit hard, with […]
Source: CNN A number of insurgents have attacked a building housing a state TV station in Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan, police tell CNN.An explosion was heard from the vicinity after the insurgents entered the building, Nangarhar police spokesman Hazrat Hussain Mashriqiwal said Wednesday.The situation is ongoing. More:
By AFP – Apr 24,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Twenty-three-year old Islam Maytat from Morocco poses for a photo with her children Maria (left) and Abdullah in the Kurdish-majority city […]
by Haider Ali Sindhu | Published on April 15, 2017 🔗 WASHINGTON – Although the international media is beating drums after dropping of largest ever non-nuclear bomb ‘MOAB’ by US in […]
Associated Press | Published — Saturday 15 April 2017 A general view of the area bombed by the US forces is seen in Achin district of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, […]
Trump knows that this isn’t about defeating Isis – the Taliban is the biggest problem is that region anyway. To defeat Isis, we have to start accepting that they’re not driven by revenge for western foreign policy but by an ideological hatred for ‘unbelievers’ Sunny Hundal @sunny_hundal What’s worse than […]
Jump media player Media player help Out of media player. Press enter to return or tab to continue. Media captionWatch 2003 footage of the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast […]
Reuters International MAR 31, 2017 Afghans, whose asylum applications have been rejected, arrive from Germany in Kabul airport, Afghanistan March 28, 2017. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani(reuters_tickers) By Tommy Wilkes KABUL (Reuters) – […]
Source: BBC More than 30 people have been killed after attackers dressed as doctors stormed the largest military hospital in Kabul, Afghan officials say. Militants armed with guns and grenades gained entry after one detonated explosives at a hospital gate and then opened fire on staff and patients. Commandos who […]
Reuters International MAR 5, 2017 – By Sue Horton LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – U.S. agents detained an Afghan family of five with valid entry visas at Los Angeles International Airport and have been holding them for several days in California, according to legal papers filed in federal court in […]
Source: Dawn An Afghan policeman linked to the Taliban shot dead 11 of his colleagues at a checkpoint in the southern province of Helmand, officials said Tuesday, in the latest so-called “insider attack”.The incident occurred late Monday as the policemen were sleeping in their barracks in the provincial capital Lashkar […]
Source: Aljazeera By Najib Sharifi Apolitical analyst and a member of Afghanistan Analysis and Awareness, a Kabul-based think tank. A resurgent Russia is making new inroads into Afghanistan, not in […]
Source: ET A senior UAE police official held the Afghan government responsible for the deadly bombing in Kandahar which on January 10 killed five UAE diplomats and injured its ambassador. The blast had occurred inside the Kandahar governor’s high-security guest house where the UAE diplomats, including Ambassador Juma Mohammed Abdullah […]
Source: Dawn Afghanistan, screaming blame and abuse.But the louder they yell, the more insistent the question: how have they managed to get it so wrong? Let’s talk about the boys a bit. The wave, this fresh orgy of violence, is rooted in Afghanistan. There’s no real reason to doubt that. The […]
Reuters International FEB 9, 2017 – U.S. Army General John Nicholson, Commander of Resolute Support forces and U.S. forces in Afghanistan, speaks during a memorial ceremony to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, in Kabul, Afghanistan September 11, 2016. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani (reuters_tickers) By Phil Stewart and Idrees […]
Image copyrightAPImage captionArmy Captain Matthew Ball (R) hugs his former interpreter Qismat Amin at San Francisco International Airport A US Army officer has brought his former Afghan interpreter to live with him in America amid fears he could fall foul of new immigration restrictions. Capt Matthew Ball paid for Qismat […]
SIX KILLED FEB 8, 2017 ICRC President Peter Maurer condemned the attack in Afghanistan (Keystone) Swiss Foreign Minister, Didier Burkhalter, has condemned an attack on humanitarian workers in Afghanistan that left six International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) staff dead on Wednesday. Burkhalter expressed condolences to the families of the […]
Source: Aljazeera By Asad Hashim A crackdown by Pakistani authorities has seen a rise in both deportations and voluntary repatriations of Afghan nationals [File: Josh Smith/Reuters] Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan’s government has […]
Source: TOI KABUL: An explosion occurred near the Supreme Court in the centre of Afghanistan‘s capital,Kabul, on Tuesday, according to witnesses at a nearby government ministry. Kabul police confirmed that ablast had been heard and they were still working to identify the exact location of it. More:
Reuters International FEB 1, 2017 – An Afghan policeman keeps watch in front of shipping containers that blocked streets leading to Kabul’s government and diplomatic area in Kabul, Afghanistan May 16 , 2016. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani (reuters_tickers) By Josh Smith KABUL (Reuters) – The Afghan government controls less than 60 percent […]