Turkey will host a trilateral meeting on the Syrian crisis between the presidents of Turkey, Russia and Iran today amid significant developments happening on the ground in the seven-year civil war.
Al Jazeera reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Ankara on Tuesday, followed by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in the evening, as the leaders meet for the second time since November to...
President Ashraf Ghani tasked a commission with investigating alleged civilian casualties in an airstrike in Dasht-e-Archi district of Kunduz province.
The airstrike by the Afghan Air Force hit a religious school in the Dasht-i-Archi district on Monday and allegedly caused civilian deaths besides inflicting casualties on the Taliban.
“To illustrate the nature of the harm sustained to civilians in the incident, President Ghani has assigned...
A number of civilians were injured in Kunar province during the latest wave of artillery shelling from the other side of Durand Line.
Provincial police spokesman Faridullah Dehqan confirmed that nearly 300 rounds of artillery shells have landed in three districts of Kunar province over past 24 hours.
The Kunar governor’s spokesman Abdul Ghani Mosamim also confirmed the shelling and said at least two civilians...
Members of the High Peace Council (HPC) have gathered in Kandahar for the HPC’s general assembly, which aims to encourage the Taliban to join the peace process.
According to the HPC, efforts to promote peace are also now being done on a provincial level, hence the meeting in Kandahar.
This is the first time the HPC has held its general assembly out of Kabul.
HPC chairman...
In a result that comes as no shock to Egyptians and the rest of the world, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has won the presidential elections with 97 percent of the votes, final results showed, securing another four-year term.
The elections were criticised as a one-man show with no credible opposition, as at least six other candidates pulled out, were prosecuted, or jailed.
Announcing the final results...
David Beasley, Executive Director of World Food Program (WFP), said that currently some 40 percent of the population in Afghanistan has no food security.
Referring to the UN’s concerns about the rising number of people suffering from hunger, WFP officials said that over the past three years, four million more people now face a lack of food security, bringing the total number to 13...
A police official was killed and four civilians were in a blast caused by a magnetic bomb in the provincial capital of Kunduz yesterday.
Police chief Brig. Gen. Abdul Hamid Hamidi said blast ripped through a border police vehicle at around 7pm.
A security man was killed and four civilians were injured in the blast that hit the pick up ranger vehicle belonging to the...
A madrassa in Dasht-e-Archi in Kunduz province was targeted at about 12:00 pm on Monday in an Afghan air forces’ airstrike.
Sources in Kunduz said that over 25 people were killed and wounded.
Provincial police spokesman confirmed the incident and said a high-ranking Taliban official from the Quetta Shura, Mullah Beryani, had also been present at the time of the airstrike.
Meanwhile district governor of Dasht-e-Archi...
Some 100 people were reportedly killed in airstrikes conducted in Dasht-e-Archi district of Kunduz province today.
District governor of Dasht-e-Archi Nasrullah Sade told Killid that the strikes were conducted around 12:00 pm today.
He added that the strikes targeted a mosque in a part of the district.
He further stated that the area where the strikes were conducted is out of government control.
More to come…
...
A young woman ended her life by eating a drug in Herat today.
Mohammad Rafiq Sherzai, spokesman for Herat Zonal Hospital, said that the 27-year old woman was brought to hospital but doctors could not save her life.
The motive behind her suicidal is yet to be determined.
Figures provided by Herat Zonal Hospital shows that four suicide incidents were registered in the hospital since the...
