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AT-KABUL: A top U.S. commander General Joseph Votelhas vowed to maintain relentless pressure on the Taliban and its supports, in the wake of a recent string of deadly attacks across the country. In a meeting in Kabul with Gen. Votel, who is in command of the United States Central Command, …

AT-KABUL: A fierce battle of Afghan security forces is going on with the Taliban assailants in northern Baghlan province to retake the overrun Tala wa Barfak district and to rescue as many as 100 missing security forces. The Taliban took control of the district in a fierce attack three days …

AT-KABUL: Hundreds of Muslim clerics from Afghanistan, Indonesia and Pakistan have declared opposition to terrorism and violent extremism and supported any peace effort for bringing peace and prosperity in the war-ravaged Afghanistan. According to the High Peace Council, 20 clerics have attended the Jakarta meeting, hoping to find out a …

Religious scholars from Afghanistan and Pakistan were hosted Friday by the Indonesian ones in Jakarta to discuss the roots and reasons of the ongoing war in Afghanistan and reach an agreement to find a solution and durable peace in the long-time war-torn country, where the people tired of war, bloodshed …

AT-KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani has reiterated his call on the nation to help ensure fair and transparent elections which, he described, will per se strengthen democracy in the country. In a meet with relatives of victims of a terrorist attack on a mosque in Yaqubi district, the president said those …

AT-KABUL: National Security Adviser, Hanif Atmar met Wednesday with the new Saudi Arabian ambassador to Kabul, Jassim bin Mohammed al-Khalidi in his office, the Security Council said. Atmar welcomed the ambassador to Afghanistan, and called his mission important in expanding bilateral relationships. The Saudi ambassador promised to do his best …

AT-KABUL: Afghanistan hopes that the US pull out from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and tensions between two countries would not put negative impacts on it. US President, Donald Trump on Tuesday, announced that his country pulled out the nuclear deal with Iran called as Joint Comprehensive Plan Of …

AT-KABUL:  A crucial member of the Islamic State (IS), which is also widely known as Daesh terrorists, who was a key fundraiser of the extremist group, have been detained during an operation carried out by the National Directorate of Security (NDS’s)  Special Forces in eastern Nangarhar province, provincial official said …

The outlook of Afghanistan’s water crisis is not good in the midst of a derelict water infrastructure and weak water management doctrine in Afghanistan and constant bullying of Iran to secure a bigger share of the country’s waters. Decades of war have decimated much of the country. The water infrastructure …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: 10 people mostly policemen have been killed and 23 others injured after eight suicide bombers assailed two police stations in Kabul, the capital city on Wednesday. The Interior Minister Wais Ahmad Barmak said that after a blast, two attackers assailed the 13th police station and engaged in …