AT-KABUL: A man was arrested by police for supplying arms to the Taliban in Baghlan province, interior ministry said Sunday. The ministry said that the supplier was arrested with two other armed insurgents in the Dushi district. Separately, the ministry said that a key Taliban commander Qari Zahir who was …

AT-KABUL: A key figure of the Taliban was killed along with seven comrades in an airstrike in northern Kunduz province, said Ministry of Interior. Key Taliban figure Qari Ali with his seven fighters was killed in airstrike in Taraki area of Dasht-e-Archi district of Kunduz provinces. This group involved in …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Deputy foreign minister Hekmat Khalil Karzai is to visit Islamabad today (Monday), for talks to remove differences over the Torkham border crossing issues with Pakistani officials. He would visit Pakistan based on an official invitation. After tensions escalated between Afghan border guards and Pakistani paramilitary forces at …

AT-KABUL: Four people including tow education officials have been kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in central Ghor province, local officials said on Sunday. They kidnapping took place on Saturday when they were on their way to the provincial capital with the same name. An official in the provincial education directorate who …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL:  The Asian Development Bank on Sunday inked an agreement with Afghan power department (De Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat) to extend 220kw electricity line from Doshi district of Baghlan to Bamyan province. The agreement was signed between Qudratullah Delawari, chief executive of power department and Thomas Panila, general …

AT-KABUL: Twenty-four Taliban fighters were killed and nine others were wounded in different crackdowns within past 24 hours, security officials said Sunday. Ministry of Defense said in a statement that the national army with the cooperation of the national police and National Directorate of Security (NDS) conducted joint operations against …

AT-KABUL: Twenty-three fighters for the Daesh terrorist group were killed in a series of airstrikes carried out in the eastern Nangarhar province, an official said Sunday. Attaullah Khogyanai, provincial spokesman, said that the strikes were carried out in the Achin district, but did not elaborate whether the attacks were carried …

AT-KABUL: The National Solidarity Program of the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development completed the work of 28 development projects in Nooristan province, the ministry said in a statement. These projects include construction of a protection wall 444 meters in length for 997 acres of agricultural lands, irrigation reservoir, a …

The security situation in Afghanistan continues to be dominated by a resilient insurgency, the Pentagon acknowledged on Friday but asserted local forces remained in control of major population centres and key lines of communication. Afghan security forces continued to deny the Taliban strategic ground throughout the country, the Pentagon told …

Seemingly the United States has been a strategic ally of Afghanistan as the two countries have already signed the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA). This defense pact is binding the US to defend sovereignty, territory and integrity of Afghanistan, major non-NATO ally in the region. According to the security agreement, Washington …