More than twenty Taliban militants were killed in a skirmish between security forces and insurgent Taliban in southeastern Badakhshan province, an official said Friday. Two policemen have been injured in the clashes that erupted 48 hours ago in Dasht Shewa area of the Arghanj Khwa district, the provincial governor’s spokesmanNaik Mohammad …

Insurgents loyal to Taliban extremist group have captured a key police base in northern Faryab province after staging a dramatic assault and engaging in ferocious combat with armed forces, killing three security personnel and taking seventeen hostages, authorities said Friday. The rebels waged the coordinated attack on the public order …

AT-KABUL: Former jihadi leader, Mohammad Ismael Khan said an interim administration needed to be shaped ahead of the next year’s presidential election. A senior commander during the jihad years against the then Soviet troops and the Soviet-backed government, Khan was working as the governor of the western Herat province in …

AT-KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai has said he welcomes and supports the new efforts regarding the peace process in Afghanistan. In an interview with the Associated Press, Karzai has also welcomed the joining of five Taliban members who had been freed from the Guantanamo prison to the group’s political office …

AT-KABUL: Officials in the country’s north say about a 20 per cent increase of immunity of punishment of those who commit crimes against journalists, saying that 95 per cent of reporters’ murder culprits are free from punishment. These officials asked the central government to put an end to the immunity …

AT-KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani said he would work hard to help the nomad grow and develop their animal husbandry and offer its products to the market. He vowed this in a meeting with the nomad youth Friday in office. Ghani asked the youth to share their schemes over the development …

The Moscow conference on the Afghan peace initially expected as early as November is still in uncertainty as the government of Afghanistan has not reached an agreement with Russia over the date and other things of the meeting. The High Peace Council a body responsible to establish peace talks with …

KABUL: Members of the parliament and a political coalition say that the electoral commission tries to authenticate ballots without biometrics to help some certain candidates win the parliamentary election. They said Wednesday that the independent election commission under the pressures from government and foreigners has decided to authenticate the ballots …

What it called in connection with its efforts for chasing the terror, the US has released a letter pertained to financiers of various militant groups and commanders engaged in violent acts in parts and parcels throughout Afghanistan. Through this letter, issued with collaboration of Gulf States agencies working on terror, …

A first ever HIV diagnostic center was inaugurated Charikar capital city of northern Parwan province on Wednesday, according to officials. According to a statement, Parwan Governor General Fazeludin Ayar termed establishing of the HIV diagnostic a key step toward identifying drug abuser and diagnoses of communicable diseases among them in …