Iranian officials said Tehran support an Afghan-owned and Afghan-led peace process.
Iran’s head of Strategic Council for Relations Syed Ali Naqi Kharazi reaffirmed Tehran’s support to the Afghan peace process during a meeting with President Ashraf Ghani.
A press release from ARG (Presidential Palace) stated that Mr. Kharazi reiterated his country’s support to Afghanistan and said Tehran is prepared to support the Afghan government in...
Gen John Nicholson, commander of US Forces and NATO in Afghanistan, claimed Russian weapons were smuggled across the Tajikistan border to the Taliban. “We know that the Russians are involved.”
On Sunday, the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Kabul said such serious allegations should be backed up by irrefutable evidence.
“But US government representatives are constantly allowing themselves to publicly express idle gossip. Once...
Security officials in Nangarhar said that four Daesh militants were either killed or injured in a drone strike in Haska Mina district.
A press release from Selab 201 Military Corps stated that three Daesh militants were killed and one injured in the strike conducted in Ragha area of the district late yesterday.
The statement added that all those killed were foreign citizens.
Daesh militants are yet...
Syrian government forces are close to taking full control of Eastern Ghouta, the last rebel-held area near the capital, Damascus.
Two out of three rebel groups that had been controlling the enclave have already surrendered, with thousands of fighters and their relatives departing for opposition-held areas in the north of the country.
The third rebel group, Jaish al-Islam, which controls the city of Douma, has...
As the Afghan year comes to a close (1396 on the Afghan calendar) there is talk of both peace and war.
James Mattis, US secretary of defence, announced the Taliban were interested in dialogue shortly after he entered the US airbase in Bagram. He claimed the US has received signals from the Taliban after 16 years of conflict.
He claimed it was the result of...
Sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace have been identified as factors behind the falling numbers of Afghan women in the media.
Time and again journalists’ rights organisations have expressed concern and called for the implementation of a law to protect women’s rights in the media.
Last week, the Afghan Women’s News Agency organised a day-long meeting at which Humaira Saqeb, its head, said Afghan...
Afghanistan is set to face West Indies in the final of ICC World Cup qualifier today in Harare Sports Club.
Both the West Indies and Afghanistan have already qualified for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019, to be staged in England and Wales from May 30 to July 14, but today’s final is expected to be another cut-throat match for a number of reasons.
Looking...
“I think I’m readier to work in journalism,” says Maryam Rayed.
Rayed has successfully completed two rounds of training spread over four months that was conducted by The Killid Group (TKG).
The training organised in partnership with the Asia Foundation is intended to raise the journalistic skills of women in order to ensure they find work in media organisations in the country.
Women applicants to the...
Delegations from across the region and around the world will gather in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, to discuss peace in Afghanistan from March 25-27.
Co-hosted by the Afghan government, the conference follows countless other efforts to breathe life into the peace process in Afghanistan.
The official conference is set to kick off on March 26. Though on March 25, foreign ministers from five Central...
