CIA Director Mike Pompeo held a secret meeting with Kim Jong-un in North Korea earlier this month in what is believed to be the highest level meeting between the two countries in nearly two decades, US media reported. Pompeo reportedly made the trip during the weekend of April 1, shortly after being named US President Donald Trump's pick to replace Rex Tillerson as secretary...
At least 11 Taliban insurgents, including three key members, were killed in ongoing security forces’ operations in north-eastern Kapisa province in the past week. In addition, 16 other insurgents were injured. Mohammad Razaq Yaqobi, provincial police chief, said that the operations were launched in Nijrab district to clear the area of insurgents. He said the three key Taliban members killed were Mullah Fedaye, Obaida and Islamyar. “Three...
China will provide free medical treatment for 25 Afghan children with congenital heart diseases, a Chinese Red Cross foreign aid medical team announced yesterday. The 25 kids, including eight girls and 17 boys, are the second group of children to be sent to China for treatment. Speaking at the event, the Secretary General of Afghan Red Crescent Society Nilab Mubarez said that China has committed...
Iqbal Nizame, spokesman for Ghor police, told Killid that Daesh militant killed three civilians and injured two others in the province today. He added that the incident happened in Barkhana area of the province when Daesh militants attacked a passenger car. Meanwhile some sources claim that six civilians were killed in the incident. This comes as civilians were shot dead by Daesh militants on Ghor-Daikundi highway...
Amid a fierce war of words between Russia and the US and its allies, Moscow has said that a team of chemical experts from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) will inspect the site of a suspected poison gas attack in Syria on Wednesday. The announcement came as Russia rejected US accusations of tampering with evidence in an investigation over the...
At least 16 Taliban insurgents were killed and 13 injured in clashes with Afghan security forces in Satarkhail, Mahmoud Chambar, Ezatqala, and Abas Qala areas of Moqor district of Ghazni. The clashes started yesterday afternoon around 3:30 pm and lasted for five hours. According to the reports, one Afghan national police member along with two local police members was killed and three others injured. A press...
Three bodyguards of Qudratullah Zaki, a lawmaker from Takhar province, were injured during the Taliban armed attack on his convoy in northern Baghlan province on Monday afternoon. Mohammad Farid, the brother of Zaki and deputy governor of Takhar, said the incident happened at around 4:00pm in the Chaharshanbai locality of Baghlan-i-Markazi district. He said the injured security personnel were being provided treatment at Taloqan Civil...
Some Wolesi Jirga (lower house of parliament) members on Monday said they were concerned about the security situation in southern Ghazni province and claimed the Pakistan prime minister who recently visited Kabul had called for the removal of Kandahar police chief. Lawmaker Ibadullah Mohammadi from northern Samangan province told yesterday’s session that Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi had made illegal demands on the...
Taliban rejected Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s call for the group to take part in the upcoming parliamentary and district council elections. In a statement issued by the group on Sunday night, they reiterated their stance that Afghanistan is an occupied country. This comes after Ghani on Saturday officially launched the voter registration process and signed up to vote in the upcoming elections. Speaking at the event,...
Russian President Vladimir Putin told Iranian President Hassan Rouhani that further attacks by Western allies in Syria would inevitably lead to chaos in international relations. In a phone conversation on Sunday, the two leaders agreed that "this illegal action seriously damages the prospects for a political settlement in Syria," Russian news agency RIA quoted the Kremlin press service as saying. Putin and Rouhani were discussing...