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Pentagon to deploy 2,300 more US troops to Afghanistan
Dec 09, 2016 16:47The United States military says it will deploy an armor brigade and an aviation brigade totaling about 2,300 soldiers to Afghanistan this winter.
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Ghani accuses Pakistan of launching 'undeclared war' on Afghanistan
Dec 05, 2016 03:07Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has accused Pakistan of waging an "undeclared war" on the violence-wracked country.
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Iran welcomes Afghan government peace-making efforts
Dec 04, 2016 11:41Iran has welcomed the Afghan government’s latest achievements in restoring peace with the Hezb-i-Islami militant group, led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, in the conflict-ridden country.
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Heart of Asia ministerial confab opens in India
Dec 04, 2016 11:37The 6th Ministerial Conference of the Heart of Asia-Istanbul Process has kicked off in India’s city of Amritsar.
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Taliban militants hang engineering student near Kabul
Dec 03, 2016 14:31Taliban militants have hanged an engineering student in public near the Afghan capital, Kabul, after accusing him of having a role in the death of a senior Taliban official.
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Senior Afghan army general killed in helicopter crash
Nov 29, 2016 14:31A helicopter crash in western Afghanistan has left a top army general killed and at least ten other people injured.
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Taliban pledges to protect infrastructural projects in Afghanistan
Nov 29, 2016 14:28The Taliban militant group has pledged to protect Afghanistan's infrastructural projects worth billions of dollars that have been stalled for years due to the ongoing militancy across the war-ravaged country.
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Four police forces killed in Taliban ambush: Afghan official
Nov 28, 2016 17:15Taliban terrorists have killed at least four Afghan border policemen in an attack in the country’s southern province of Zabul, an official says.
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Blasts kill 6 people in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province
Nov 25, 2016 11:52Several bomb blasts in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad have left at least six people dead and more than two dozen others wounded.
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Terrorism will backfire on sponsors sooner or later: Qassemi
Nov 21, 2016 17:06Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned a terrorist attack on a crowded Shia mosque in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul, stressing that sponsors of terrorism will be engulfed by the backlash of their actions “sooner or later.”