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Ministry of Interior Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan announced that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or Daesh has been eliminated by up to 98 percent in Afghanistan and is no more a threat. The Ministry in a Twitter...
FILE: Afghan women attend a consultative grand assembly, known as Loya Jirga, in Kabul, Afghanistan April 29, 2019. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani Kabul, Afghanistan – At least 14 UN independent rights experts blame the United States and Islamic...
The United Nations World Food Program in a series of Twitter posts announced that they have distributed food assistance and cash in Kabul, Kandahar, Kunar, Farah, Herat, and Faryab provinces this month. As per the information of WFP,...
Following the recent tensions between Iran’s border guards and the Taliban forces at the border zone in the western Herat province, an Afghan delegation is all set to leave for Iran. The visit of the IEA’s delegation is also days...
Tehran has agreed to accept new Afghan diplomats to Afghanistan’s embassy in the city and has accredited three diplomats sent by the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan to the country, BBC Pashto reported. Sources on the condition of anonymity...
The United Nations experts have expressed concern about Afghanistan’s grave humanitarian crisis and have asked the government of the United States to unfreeze the $7 billion of Da Afghanistan Bank, Central Bank of Afghanistan. The...
Afghanistan’s Foreign Ministry announced that the Afghan delegation led by acting Foreign Minister Amri Khan Muttaqi met with Qatar’s Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammad Bin Abdurrahman Al-Thani in Doha on Sunday. Spokesperson...
A young child is breaking coal with two other kids at his back. [Photo: Archive] Kabul, Afghanistan – In an effort to maximize the use of country’s raw materials, the Taliban government attempts to increase its energy production from...
United Nations International Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has once again expressed concern over the closure of secondary schools for girls adding that education in Afghanistan should not be a hostage to politics. Paloma Escudero,...
Acting Defense Minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Mullah Muhammad Yaqoob Mujahid reacted to Pakistan’s recent airstrikes in Khost and Kunar provinces saying “invasion” will not be tolerated next time. Speaking at his...
Turkish officials announced that they have sent back up to 227 Afghan refugees that had entered the country illegally in a bid to combat irregular migration to the country. The Afghan refugees were expedited to their homeland after having...
Ministry of Defense of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan announced on Sunday that the border crossing between Iran and Afghanistan reopened in the Islam Qala district of the western Herat province after tensions between the two sides. The...
Ministry of Higher Education of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan separated weekdays of male and female students of universities in Kabul University and Kabul Polytechnic University in a bid to further end co-education. Based on the...
The main crossing point between Afghanistan and Iran in the western province of Herat closed on Saturday, April 23, 2022, after skirmishes between border guards of the two countries. The Taliban in the Islam Qala district of Herat province...
Kabul, Afghanistan- the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriates of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan distributed China-donated humanitarian assistance to 1,500 Afghans in Kabul on Saturday. Speaking to reporters at the scene, the acting...
The interim Prime Minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Mullah Muhammad Hassan Akhund in an official letter congratulated Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shabaz Sharif on holding the office of the premiership. Muhammad Hassan Akhund...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – In the lasted violence to rattle the volatile region, sources reported that Militant in Afghanistan fired heavy weapons across the border into a Pakistani military post overnight, killing at least three security...
FILE: Taliban Orders PUBG, TikTok Ban for Leading Youths ‘Astray’ Kabul, Afghanistan – In one of the latest cabinet meetings Thursday, Islamic Emirate has ordered the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT) to ban...
Kabul, Afghanistan- The United States Special Representative for Afghanistan Thomas West discussed the reopening of girls’ schools in Afghanistan with the head of the former council of peace and national reconciliation of Afghanistan...
Kabul, Afghanistan- A high-level delegation of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan led by the acting Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation Hamidullah Akhundzada arrived in the Qatari capital Doha and is due to discuss the management of...
Kabul, Afghanistan-The United Nations Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Humanitarian Coordinator for Afghanistan Ramiz Alakbarov condemns Friday’s blast on a mosque in Imam Sahib District of the northern Kunduz...
Kabul, Afghanistan- Acting Foreign Minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan met with Britain’s charge d’Affaire for Afghanistan Hugo Shorter to discuss multiple issues including condemning recent blasts against Afghan civilians. spokesperson...
A bomb blast that targeted worshipers in a mosque in the northern Kunduz province has killed 33 and wounded 43 more so far. The Chief spokesperson of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in a Twitter post condemned that incident and confirmed...
Pakistan’s embassy in Kabul in a press release said that three-member medical experts mandated by the country’s Ministry of Health visited Afghanistan and assessed health services in three hospitals built by Pakistan. The visit of...
FILE: Se-Dokan Mosque that was hit with recent bombing in Mazar-e-Sharif city of Balkh province, April 21, 2022. Kabul, Afghanistan – While the Islamic Emirate government has repeatedly claimed victory and assured peace and stability in...
Former US President Donald Trump has slammed US president Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw from Afghanistan saying the decision left America “humiliated”. Speaking at a Heritage Foundation event in Florida on Thursday, Trump said...
Eminent religious scholar of Pakistan Mufti Taqi Usman wrote a letter to the interim government of Afghanistan to reopen girls’ schools for Afghan girls. The letter that is written to the supreme leader of the Taliban Mullah Hebtullah...
Islamic State (IS) in a statement has claimed responsibility for the explosions in four different Afghan cities that killed over 40 civilians and wounded more than eighty more, India Today reported. The IS in their statement said that...
The United Nations Special Rapporteur Richard Bennett has taken to his Twitter post and termed recent attacks against the Hazara community systematic attacks. Richard Bennett called for immediate investigation, accountability, and an...
Health officials in Abu Ali Sina hospital in the Mazar-e-Sharif city of the northern Balkh province said that 30 killed and 80 wounded have been dispatched to the hospital after an explosion hit “Se Dukan” mosque in the city. Local...
Afghan female beggars ask for alms as pedestrians walk past in downtown Kabul on October 10, 2012. According to the World Bank “more than a third of the population live below the poverty line and more than half are vulnerable and at serious...
Seven Afghan men were flogged and were given different prison terms in the supreme court of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan after they confessed their crimes, Bakhtar News Agency reported. The flogging that is also called (Hodood)...
The United Nations Security Council condemned the recent explosion in the Afghan capital Kabul and asked for the organizers, financers, sponsors, and perpetrators to be held accountable and be brought to justice. Members of the UNSC...
The United States special representative for Afghanistan Thomas West has once again urged the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan to heed the calls of the Afghan religious scholars and elders and reverse their decision over the ban on girls’...
World Bank is all set to resume three major projects worth $450 million in Afghanistan after being halted in reaction to the closure of girls’ schools by the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Reuters has cited its anonymous sources in...
Medical staff move a wounded youth on a stretcher outside a hospital after blasts rocked a boys’ school in western Kabul [Wakil Kohsar/AFP] Kabul, Afghanistan – Recent blasts in west Kabul have drawn backlashes at local and international...
The United States embassy in Pakistan announced $48 million in aid for Afghan refugees in Pakistan and the hosting community as part of the pledges the country made. The embassy on its Twitter post said that it was grateful for Pakistan’s...
Spin Gul purportedly in his late 20s succumbed to his wounds in hospital after he burnt himself in Kabul on Monday, April 18, 2022. Spin Gul left behind his four children, his wife, and his elderly grandmother. The grandmother said...
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan disclosed the core reason behind girls’ schools’ closure adding that the secondary schools’ girls were not aligned with the Sharia law. Deputy chief of the General Directorate of Intelligence...
Foreign Ministries of Qatar and Turkey in their respective press release condemned the terrorist attack on a secondary school in the west of Kabul adding the attack will have a negative impact on human rights in the country. “We...
Medical staff move a wounded youth on a stretcher outside a hospital after blasts rocked a boys’ school in western Kabul [Wakil Kohsar/AFP] Kabul, Afghanistan – At least six people, including young students, have been killed and...
FILE: Afghan Journalists Face Ever-Increasing Restriction Kabul, Afghanistan – In one of the latest’s, a TV host and presenter Moheb Jalili, has been abducted and tortured by the Taliban members in district 15 of the Kabul city at around...
Afghanistan’s permanent mission in the United Nations has reacted to Pakistan’s recent airstrikes on Khost and Kunar provinces and added that the country has attacked Afghanistan’s territorial integrity. The mission is a statement...
Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry in a press release said that terrorists have been using Afghan soil to carry out terror attacks in Pakistan and have asked the Afghan government to secure the border region. The Ministry’s spokesperson...
United Nations Assistant Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) reacted to the airstrikes of Pakistani jets on Afghanistan’s Khost and Kunar provinces and expressed deep concern over the killings of civilians. UNAMA in a Twitter post said...
Deputy Minister of Information and Culture and Chief Spokesperson of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Zabiullah Mujahid condemned Pakistan’s recent airstrikes on Khost and Kunar provinces in the strongest terms adding that repetition...
FILE: US diplomat Ross Wilson [Photo: Social Media] Kabul, Afghanistan – While Russia-Ukraine war draws global attention, humanitarian crisis deepens in Afghanistan as the Islamic Emirate heightened restrictions on women’s rights, freedom...
Afghanistan’s Foreign Ministry said that they summoned Pakistan’s ambassador to Kabul Mansoor Ahmad Khan after Pakistani aircraft conducted airstrikes in Khost and Kunar provinces. The Ministry in a press release said that Khan was...
FILE: Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the first Deputy Prime Minister. Kabul, Afghanistan – Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the first Deputy Prime Minister, gave hope on girls’ education in Afghanistan, saying the issue is pending for a better...
Local officials of Khost and Kunar provinces confirmed that Pakistani aircrafts had conducted airstrikes on different parts of the province killing five children and a woman. Officials in the southeastern Khost province said that the...