US President Donald Trump said overnight there will be a “big price to pay” after what he called a “mindless” attack in Syria, allegedly involving chlorine gas.
Trump also called Syrian President Bashar al-Assad an “animal.”
“President Putin, Russia and Iran are responsible for backing Animal Assad. Big price to pay,” Trump said in a pair of tweets which began with a discussion of the...
Ministry of Public Health announced that a new polio campaign will begin today.
A press release from Ministry of Public Health stated that the campaign will immunise 6 million children under the age of five in 23 provinces.
Ferozuddin Feroz, health minister, urged families to vaccinate their children against polio.
Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria are the only countries where polio is still prevalent.
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Construction work has been launched on new buildings for two hospitals in Muqar and Gilan districts of Ghazni province.
Abdul Karim Mateen said a 30-bed hospital was being established in Muqar district at a cost of 14 million Afghanis.
With a mobile clinic already in place, two others hospitals have also been put into service in Gadakhel and Akhond localities of the Muqar district.
The governor...
President Ashraf Ghani inaugurated the runway of Khost province airport hours arriving in the province to inaugurate a number of projects as well as meeting with the local officials.
A press release from ARG (Presidential Palace) stated the runway was inaugurated in the presence of cabinet members, parliament and provincial council members, and some tribal elders of the province.
The Khost airport runway has a...
Taliban have shut network communication in Farah province over the past three weeks.
Dadullah Qani, deputy provincial council, told Killid that telecommunication companies do not have regular services due to Taliban’s threats over the past three weeks.
Qani added over the past few days telecommunication companies had services just for few hours and mostly were disconnected.
Killid tried to interview local officials but no information was...
A suspected chemical attack in Douma, the last rebel-held stronghold near Syria's capital, Damascus, has killed at least 70 people and affected hundreds, rescue workers have told Al Jazeera.
The White Helmets, a group of rescuers operating in opposition-held areas in Syria, said on Saturday that most of the fatalities were women and children.
"Seventy people suffocated to death and hundreds still suffocating," Raed al-Saleh,...
President Ashraf Ghani visited some of the Kunduz air strike victims being treated at the Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan Hospital in Kabul yesterday evening.
A press release from ARG (Presidential Palace) stated that Ghani ordered the doctors to ensure the wounded received proper treatment and that staff make sure everything possible is done to help them recover.
A number of civilians, wounded in Monday’s air...
Turkish authorities will deport close to 600 Afghan migrants in eastern Turkey back to Kabul this weekend, Turkish interior ministry said yesterday.
The Afghan migrants had crossed into Turkey through Iran due to "ongoing terrorist activities and economic troubles" in Afghanistan, the ministry said, and security forces had handed the migrants over to provincial immigration authorities.
It said deportation procedures had been completed for 591...
Binali Yildirim, the prime minister of Turkey, will meet with President Ashraf Ghani and CEO Abdullah Abdullah in a visit to Kabul today.
Yildirim will also meet with other high-ranking officials to discuss the Afghan peace process and progress being made in terms of the Afghan-Turk Schools, the CEO’s office said on Saturday.
The CEO’s deputy spokesman Jawed Faisal said education and the Afghan peace...
Taliban killed a school deputy principal in Shendand district of Herat province.
Jailani Farhad, spokesman for Herat governor, said that a number of tribal elders were abducted yesterday when they were on their way to attend a party.
Farhad added that among those abducted was deputy principal of a high school from Shendand district who was killed by Taliban.
He further stated that the deputy principal...
