Mohammad Asif Shinwari, Nangarhar education department spokesman, said that unknown gunmen killed Haji Abdul Latif, a girls’ school principal, in Chaparhar district last night.
Shinwari added that Haji Abdul Latif was principal of Dago school for the past three months.
Shinwari further stated that the perpetrators are yet to be identified.
This comes as unidentified gunmen torched a school's lab and its documents in the Momand...
A delegation of Turkish traders on Sunday arrived in Kabul and met with Afghan colleagues and showed interest in making investments in Afghanistan.
The 25-member Turkish trade delegation is led by Fateh Matin, deputy Turkish economy minister, who has been in Kabul for the past two days to negotiate strengthening business relations between the two countries.
Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) members shared...
Private telecommunication companies have suspended services in Helmand province for an indefinite period in compliance with orders from the Taliban.
Omaidullah Zaheer, head of the Information and Telecommunication Department (ICD), told reporters in Lashkargah, the provincial capital, that the telecommunication companies had stopped functioning since Saturday 5:00pm.
He said the government could not pressurize the private companies to resume their services. “If we put pressure...
Unidentified gunmen torched a school’s lab and its documents in the Momand Dara district of Nangarhar province.
Mohammad Asif Shinwari, provincial education department spokesman, said that masked gunmen torched some parts of a school in the district late on Saturday night.
He said the gunmen initially tied up the hands of the watchmen and then collected all documents and torched them in a lab room....
A prominent Taliban commander along with his seven bodyguards was killed in Chesht district of Herat province.
Jailani Farhad, spokesman for Herat governor, named the commander as Nasrullah Badghisi.
He added that Badghisi was killed in clashes with irresponsible armed individuals.
Taliban militants are yet to comment.
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The United States has warned it "is locked and loaded" to strike Syria if there are any more chemical attacks, hours after more than 100 bombs targeted facilities in Damascus and Homs said to be associated with the use of chemical weapons.
Speaking to an emergency session of the UN Security Council on Saturday, Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, said,...
Local officials in Khost province said clashes are underway between the Afghan and Pakistani forces along the Durand Line near Zazai Maidan district.
Acting provincial police chief Abdul Hanan confirmed that the clash broke out earlier today and the two sides are still engaged in exchange of fire.
He added that four Pakistani militants were killed and one injured.
He further stated that two Afghan security...
Unidentified gunmen shot dead the deputy education head for Dand district of Kandahar province on Saturday.
Abdul Jalil, the deputy education head for Dand, came under attack from suspected insurgents in Karz area, said Kandahar education department spokesman Fida Mohammad Samimi.
Jalil also headed the Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) office in Dand district and was a member of the party’s commission on prisoners in Kandahar.
HIA sources...
The Kabul-Mazar-i-Sharif highway reopened on Saturday evening after being closed as a result of a clash between security forces and Taliban militants in northern Baghlan province.
The clash erupted before noon in Dushi district, resulting in closure of the key road for three hours against traffic.
Baghlan police Chief Brig. Gen. Ikramuddin Sarai said Taliban had been pushed back in Kela locality.
Two Taliban fighters were...
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and First Lady Rula Ghani today officially launched the voter registration process and signed up to vote in the upcoming parliamentary and district council elections.
Speaking on Saturday, Ghani said that government is committed to holding elections on time.
“National Unity Government (NUG) has the will and commitment to hold transparent elections on 20 October this year,” said Ghani at the...
