Afghanistan

Afghan Minister in Tehran to discuss migrants issue

Mar 07, 2016 12:38

Deputy Foreign Minister for Consular, Parliamentary and Expatriates Affairs Hassan Qashqavi on Monday held talks with Afghan Minister for Refugees and Repatriation Hossein Alami Balkhi on issues about the Afghan migrants living in Iran.
Afghanistan to be Daesh graveyard: President Ghani

Mar 06, 2016 14:19

Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani says the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group has been defeated in the militant-riddled eastern parts of the war-ravaged country.
Two killed in Tajik-Afghan border clash

Mar 06, 2016 11:19

A Tajik border guard and a gunman have been killed during a clash on the country’s border with Afghanistan, Tajikistan’s border guard officials say.
Six killed in blasts, gunfire outside Indian consulate in Afghanistan's Jalalabad

Mar 02, 2016 12:07

Bomb blasts followed by gunfire have rocked the area near the Indian consulate in the eastern Afghanistan city of Jalalabad, killing six people, including a police officer and four assailants.
Four Afghan policemen killed in attack

Mar 02, 2016 05:30

Security officials in Afghanistan say at least four police officers have lost their lives in an attack by a man clad in an Afghan police uniform at a remote highway checkpoint in the country’s beleaguered central province of Uruzgan.
US drone strikes kill 9 in eastern Afghanistan

Mar 01, 2016 06:27

Authorities in Afghanistan say at least nine people have lost their lives in two US drone strikes in the country’s troubled Eastern Province of Nangarhar.
Blast kills 12 outside Afghan Defense Ministry

Feb 27, 2016 14:07

At least a dozen people were killed Saturday in a bomb attack outside the Afghan Defense Ministry in Kabul.
Bombing kills at least 10 in east Afghanistan

Feb 27, 2016 03:36

A bomber riding a motorcycle has detonated his explosives near a governor's house in Kunar Province in eastern Afghanistan, leaving at least 10 people killed.
Afghan woman kills Taliban commander over privacy breach

Feb 26, 2016 14:56

An Afghan woman shot and killed Friday a senior commander of the Taliban militant group in the northern province of Baghlan.
Afghanistan, Taliban to hold peace talks next month

Feb 24, 2016 05:26

The first round of direct peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban militant group are expected to take place in neighboring Pakistan by March.