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AT-KABUL: Eight fighters, loyal to the Islamic State, also known as Daesh, were killed after the Afghan Air Forces conducted an air raid in Achin district of eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Friday. “Daesh fighters were busy devising evil designs, when the Afghan Air Force targeted them in …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL:  A dissident Taliban group, led by Mullah Rasoul, rejected to pledge allegiance to the new appointed group’s leader Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, as it had denied Mullah Akhtar Mansour who came to lead the militants after the death report of the Taliban’s founder Mullah Omar in July. Omar …

AT-KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai has asked the government to stop the execution of the prisoners, arguing that only the way of brotherhood and unity goes to the lasting peace and stability, his office said. “The war is imposed on us by the aliens and the killing of Taliban leader …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: The Civil Society Network and Political Activists (CSNPA) disclosed a document claiming that Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) faced with serious corruptions. Members of the network on Wednesday in a press conference alleged that they have accessed to a credible document about extensive corruption in the …

Political pundits and security affairs analysts were of the view that the Taliban insurgents would engage in infighting over leadership of the group. However, it did not happen. Most of their theories regarding new battle over leadership of the group, after killing of Mullah Mansoor in a US drone strike …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: At least 11 people were killed after a court bus was targeted by a suicide bomber in Paghman area at the outskirts of Kabul city Wednesday morning, officials said. “A suicide bomber blew himself up by hitting into appeal court of Wardak province bus in Bagh-e-Dawood area …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Taliban confirmed the killing of their leader Mullah Akhtar Masnour, announcing Haibatullah Akhundzada as new leader for the group. Taliban Spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said that Mansour was killed on Saturday in a US drone strike in an area between Registan area of Kandahar and Noshki of Pakistan’s …

AT-KABUL: A multi-million power project, Turkmenistan-Afghanistan (TA) which is part of the TUTAP electricity supply project, would pass through Salang route, assigned officials to resolve TA controversies, hinted on Tuesday. Briefing the newsmen, Minister of Economy, Abdul Sattar Murad, who is also a member of the commission, said the assigned …

AT-KABUL: The Criminal Justice Task Forces (CJTF) on Tuesday said that 65 drug runners including four women were arrested in different operations in the past one month. The Counter Narcotics Police (CNP) detained drug traffickers in different areas of Kabul, Herat, Uruzgan, Badakhshan, Kandahar, Helmand, Faryab, Balkh, Nangarhar, Kunduz and …

AT-KABUL:  The Ministry of Economy on Tuesday claimed that Afghan investors have invested around $80 billion abroad due to lack of required facilities, including adequate power. Speaking at the joint seminar with Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS), the Minister of Economy, Abdul Sattar Murad, said that there is no sufficient …