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ReliefWeb
April 19, 2018
Kabul, Afghanistan - A national summit of Afghan businesswomen has been launched in Kabul with support from USAID's Promote: Women in the Economy ... The summit brought together more than 150 women-owned or managed Afghan businesses, government officials, interest groups, and industryÃâà...
Xinhua
April 19, 2018
by Jawid Omid, Farid Behbud. HERAT, Afghanistan, April 18 (Xinhua) -- The Afghan government is determined to save the rich, historical sites and cultural facilities in the insurgency-hit country, an official told Xinhua during a recent interview. The western Herat province with Herat city as its capital, 640 kmÃâà...
The Nation
April 19, 2018
KHYBER AGENCY - To discuss matters of mutual interests, flag meeting of Pakistani and Afghan officials was held at Torkham on Wednesday. According to ... The forces official while confirming the incident said that the IED had been installed near the house of a retired soldier of Mohmand Rifle. As a resultÃâà...
Voice of America
April 19, 2018
Officials in Afghanistan say a top regional security commander and several of his bodyguards were killed in a bombing attack in southern Afghanistan early Wednesday. Afghan officials identified the slain man as Janan Mama, who was heading the Crisis Response Unit for the border police force inÃâà...
ABC News
April 17, 2018
An Afghan official says at least six civilians were shot and killed by gunmen in western Ghor province. Iqbal Nezami, spokesman for ... The victims were all ethnic Hazaras, a Shiite minority in Afghanistan that is frequently targeted by Sunni extremists in different parts of the country. Nezami says the HazarasÃâà...
Voice of America
April 10, 2018
Officials in Afghanistan say cross-border shelling by Pakistan has killed at least one civilian in the eastern province of Kunar. A provincial government spokesman told VOA Pakistani forces in the past 24 hours have fired hundreds of artillery shells on two Afghan border districts of Sarkano and Dangam.
ABC News
April 5, 2018
Pakistan's prime minister arrived in Afghanistan on Friday for a day-long visit many see as an effort to ease strained relations between the two ... top Pakistani officials on the trip, his first to Kabul since becoming prime minister last year, is to hold meetings with a string of Afghan officials, according to Ghani'sÃâà...
DunyaNews Pakistan
April 4, 2018
In Islamabad, Ambassador Wells met with Minister of Interior Ahsan Iqbal, SAFRON Minister LTG (ret) Abdul Qadir Baloch, Advisor to Prime Minister on Finance, Revenue and Economic Affairs Miftah Ismail, Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua, National Security Advisor Nasser Janjua, and UN HighÃâà...
TASS
April 4, 2018
The US years-long presence in Afghanistan has failed to normalize the situation in that country, Russian Defense Minister Army General Sergei ... Ministry has brought together delegations from 95 countries, including 30 defense ministers, 15 chiefs of General Staff and deputy defense ministers, and alsoÃâà...
New York Times
April 4, 2018
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan — A day after Afghan security forces killed or wounded more than 100 people in the bombing of a religious seminary where they ... Officials would not publicly say how many of those were civilians, but one senior security official said that about 35 percent of the dead were civiliansÃâà...
Radio Australia
April 3, 2018
However Reuters reported a local police official, Abdul Hameed Hameedi, as saying 15 were killed and 10 wounded. The strike targeted a gathering of Taliban fighters preparing for an operation. A representative from the Taliban leadership council based in the Pakistani city of Quetta was visiting at theÃâà...
CTV News
April 3, 2018
KABUL -- An Afghan official says an airstrike on a Taliban training camp in northern Afghanistan killed at least 20 insurgents and wounded many more on Monday, while the Taliban said the airstrike hit a religious school during a graduation ceremony, killing dozens of civilians. It was not immediatelyÃâà...
Seattle Times
April 3, 2018
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan official says at least five civilians and 35 insurgents have been killed in an airstrike by Afghan forces in northern Kunduz province. Nematullah Temori, spokesman for the provincial governor in Kunduz, said Tuesday that 55 civilians were wounded in the attack a dayÃâà...
STRATFOR
April 2, 2018
Afghan authorities confirmed on April 1 that parliamentary and district council elections are set for Oct. 20, Reuters reported. Now three years overdue, the elections have been repeatedly postponed, and President Ashraf Ghani is under pressure from Afghan voters and international partners to hold them.
Xinhua
April 2, 2018
Wells has been in Pakistan for almost a week, holding meetings with officials and members of the civil society. "The Chief of the Army Staff reiterated that Pakistan is committed to peace and stability in the region, particularly in Afghanistan through a national approach," a statement from the army's mediaÃâà...
DAWN.com
April 2, 2018
An Afghan official says an airstrike on a Taliban training camp in northern Afghanistan killed at least 20 insurgents and wounded many more on Monday, while the Taliban said the airstrike hit a religious school during a graduation ceremony, killing dozens of civilians. It was not immediately possible toÃâà...
BBC News
April 2, 2018
"We've had weapons brought to this headquarters and given to us by Afghan leaders and [they] said, this was given by the Russians to the Taliban," he said. ... Russian officials and politicians have even implied that the US and Nato support IS in Afghanistan; a charge the US vehemently denies and mostÃâà...
ABC News
April 2, 2018
An Afghan official says an airstrike on a Taliban training camp in northern Afghanistan killed at least 20 insurgents and wounded many more on Monday, while the Taliban said the airstrike hit a religious school during a graduation ceremony, killing dozens of civilians. It was not immediately possible toÃâà...
Arab News
April 1, 2018
John Nicholson, commander of the US Forces in Afghanistan. “They have another segment of Islamic Movement Uzbekistan. And then there's probably 10 percent that's from a variety of sources around the world,” he said on March 22 in a statement, which also confirmed that the Afghan Special SecurityÃâà...
CNN
March 21, 2018
Kabul (CNN) A suicide bomber killed 29 people Wednesday in Kabul, the latest in a string of attacks to rock the Afghan capital since the start of the year. ... The US Ambassador to Afghanistan, John R. Bass, condemned the attack as "shameful" on his official Twitter account and said the United States wasÃâà...
Seattle Times
March 16, 2018
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The body of a U.N. driver who was abducted together with a female U.N. employee and her child was found in Kabul on Friday, in the same location where the three Afghans were abducted two months ago, the city's police chief said. According to the police chief, Dawood Amin,Ãâà...
ABC News
March 16, 2018
There was no information on the whereabouts or condition of the Afghan woman and her child, he added. The United Nations in Kabul did not immediately reply to email requests for information. No militant group claimed the abduction and the police have had no information as to who might have carried itÃâà...
Xinhua
March 8, 2018
JAJALABAD, Afghanistan March 8 (Xinhua) -- At least five Taliban militants, including their local commander, were killed and three others wounded during the operation conducted by Afghan intelligence special forces in Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan, a local official said. "Special OperationsÃâà...
The Nation
March 8, 2018
Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif says Pakistan's relations with Gulf states, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iran and Russia are growing day by day, reported Radio Pakistan. Talking to a private news channel, he said ties with Afghanistan are also improving. However, he said, the whole region is facingÃâà...
Seattle Times
March 8, 2018
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Authorities in Afghanistan say an attack on a district police headquarters in Kandahar province killed one police officer and wounded five. Provincial police chief Gen. Abdul Raziq said the attack on Wednesday night in Spin Boldak district involved a bomber setting off anÃâà...
Haaretz
March 7, 2018
Israeli Minister in U.S.: Palestinians Had Their Chance in Gaza, but They Turned It Into Afghanistan ... NEW YORK – Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Naftali Bennett told a small gathering of U.S. Jewish students on Tuesday that the two-state solution is a terrible idea and “we're done with that.” Attending aÃâà...
The Express Tribune
March 5, 2018
A group of 70 Taliban are ready to join the peace process, Afghan officials said on Sunday. Afghan's Herat provincial council chairman ... These included securing employment on the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project. “The armed group said they will join the peaceÃâà...
Channel NewsAsia
February 28, 2018
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan: A German national has been arrested with the Taliban in Afghanistan's insurgency-racked Helmand province, officials told AFP ... Photographs taken by the Afghan military show a man who looks to be in his 40s with a long reddish-brown beard speckled with grey, and wearing aÃâà...
ABC News
December 31, 1999
Taliban attacks overnight in Afghanistan killed at least 13 policemen and wounded several others, officials said Friday. In western Herat province, 10 policemen were killed and four were wounded in Shindand district where fighting with the insurgents lasted for hours. The district governor, ShukrullahÃâà...
ABC News
December 31, 1999
An Afghan official says that at least four young children have been killed after a rocket fired by an insurgent hit their house in southern Helmand province. Omar Zwak, spokesman for the provincial governor in Helmand, said Saturday that another child was wounded in late Friday night's attack in Nad AliÃâà...
Arab News
December 31, 1999
KABUL: Afghan officials on Friday rejected regional concerns that Daesh has a strong presence in Afghanistan, adding the network could in no way be a ... The emergence of Daesh in late 2014 in Afghanistan, despite the large and long presence of US-led troops fighting Taliban militants in the countryÃâà...
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