Nation

KABUL: Members of parliament are worried about the security in the provinces of Ghor, Ghazni and Badghis, calling on the government to be serious in ensuring security. They claimed on Monday that armed opposition groups have recently received modern and sophisticated weapons in these three provinces and have inflicted casualties …

KABUL: Police authorities said Monday that firearms and ammunition have been seized in an operation targeting terrorist cells in Kabul city. Kabul police have discovered and confiscated one AK-47 rifles, four boxes of PK bullets, three boxes of AK-47 bullets, three boxes of RPGs and one box of grenade launcher …

KABUL: Afghan security forces discovered and busted two huge drug labs in eastern Nangarhar province, said officials. Two big narcotic labs were busted and drugs set ablaze in Shinwar district of Nangarhar, said Governor Spokesman Attaullah Khogyani. He said that 60 sacks of opium with some other materials discovered from …

KABUL: Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) said on Monday it has funded the treatment of 1,742 patients with heart disease in 2018. ARCS has treated 1742 children with disease of hole in heart inside the country and in abroad, which reveal 60 percent increase in treatment. Last year 1200 children …

KABUL: The High Peace Council says the place for holding peace talks is not important, but this is important to hold it between Taliban and the government of Afghanistan. Sayed Ehsan Taheri, a spokesman of the council said Monday that no person, entity or country could not make decision on …

AT-KABUL: Anti-Taliban operation has been continuing infinitely with leaving mass-scale casualties on the part of the extremist group in southern Kandahar province, security officials said Monday.   At least 97 Taliban have been killed in the ongoing operations conducted in Shah Wali Kot district by the Afghan forces along with Resolute …

KABUL: At least six people – including two children – were killed following an explosion at a local market in Paktika which was mistakenly triggered, according to officials. The blast happened when an unexplodedordnance went off among a crowd of civilians at a local market in Janikhel district of Paktika …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Afghanistan’s Ambassador to Tehran, Nasir Ahmad Nour said that Iran’s Southeastern port of Chabahar is of vital importance to Afghanistan, saying the Afghan government and private sector are eager to see the port in full swing. Nasir Ahmad Nour, in an interview with an Iranian news outlet, …

KABUL: Authorities in Kabul are castigating U.S. President Donald Trump’s remarks about the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the country’s war as they on Thursday demanded Washington to provide explanation. President Donald Trump at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday said that Russia and Pakistan should be fighting the war in …

KABUL: Three people were convicted Thursday of the murder of BBC journalist Ahmad Shah, with one of them sentenced to death. Afghanistan’s primary anti-terrorism court has convicted three men in the murder case of a BBC reporter, spokesman of the Attorney General Office (AGO) said on Thursday. Ahmad Shah was …