Over 400 Taliban commanders killed in nine months: Sediqi

AT-KABUL: The spokesman for ministry of interior Sediq Sediqi said Wednesday that over 400 leaders of the Taliban insurgents were killed during different operations lunched by security forces in the past nine months. He said that 420 Taliban battlefield commanders were killed in the past nine months in special operations. …

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Prominent photojournalist Younusi dies at 55

AT-KABUL: Prominent photojournalist Mohammad Yousuf Younusi passed away on Wednesday at the age of 55. Younusi has been in the Rehman Medical Institute Peshawar for the past three days after heart attack. Born in Kabul, Younusi’s father was also a photographer. He started working with the state-run media in the …

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IED blast targets Bamyan MP in Kabul city

AT-KABUL: Fakoury Beheshti, a parliamentarian from Bamyan province, was injured along with three others when a bomb blast targeted his vehicle in western part of Kabul city on Wednesday morning, officials said. The Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was placed under a road bridge in Police District 6 in western part …

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Editorial: Russia in spotlight

Around two months ago, the Russian officials have planned to host trilateral talks on Afghanistan. The invitation was extended only to China and Pakistan. It is very strange that these three important neighboring countries would discuss security situation in Afghanistan but the Afghan officials were not invited to attend the …

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The Saffarid Period in Afghanistan

By Wakeel Khan-Following the fall of Sassanid Empire, two centuries of Arab hegemony in Khorasan was never popular in the Pashtun belt. This is evident from fierce resistance that was offered here to all Arabian attacks. A change in political realities, however, had come hard on the heels of Arab …

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Sino-Russian neighborhood policy: Kazakhstan – Euroasian heart of gold

By Filippo Romeo-Quite untill recently Kazakhstan was commonly identified as an impervious, legendary and fascinating place, one of passionate, bloody dusks whose natural beauty, combined with the landscape diversity, made it the most seductive country in Central Asia. Today, though these features still distinguish it, it is placed in the …

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Kurds can’t be ignored in post war Syria

By Manish Rai-The start of the Syrian civil war in 2011 gave the historically marginalized Kurds their first real chance to assert their autonomy and to become a political powerhouse. Syrian Kurdish society now strongly feels that they can reverse the last half-century of assimilationist pressures and revive their cultural …

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Trump’s nation-building pledges to be tested in Afghanistan

By Rebecca Kheel-President-elect Donald Trump’s pledges to end the nation-building missions of the military will be tested in Afghanistan, where President Obama repeatedly came up against the reality of a country unready for U.S. forces to leave. Trump will inherit a military drawing down in Afghanistan to 8,400 troops, well …

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Pakistani troops shoot Afghan

By Shamim Shahid-PESHAWAR:  An Afghan national was injured whereas eight other captured as a result of Pakistani troops firing on the Durand Line at Khyber Agency on Tuesday. Pakistani officials claimed that all these Afghan nationals were making attempts of entering Pakistan without visa, passport and other valid travelling documents. …

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Afghan women demand visible action against sexual harassment

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Afghan women welcomed the establishment of the law against sexual harassment of women at workplace, urging the government to strictly implement the law to overcome sexual harassment across the country. Afghan Women News Agency (AWNA) has interviewed a number of women in different organs, who asked the …

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