Taliban announced on Monday night that the group is ready for talks with the United States and called on US officials “to talk directly to the Political Office of Islamic Emirate (in Qatar) regarding a peaceful solution to the Afghan quandary.” Referring to the US Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia Alice Wells’ recent statement that the US has kept the doors...
Ongoing attacks by Syrian government forces and their allies has created "hell on Earth" for civilians stuck in a rebel-held Damascus suburb, the UN's chief said on Monday, as air strikes and ground operations continued despite a days-old ceasefire. Russia's President Vladimir Putin, meanwhile, ordered a "humanitarian pause" from 9am-2pm local time on Tuesday to allow civilians to evacuate Eastern Ghouta. The bombardment of rebel-held...
The Afghanistan National cricket team will face West Indies in the ICC World Cup Qualifiers Warm-up matches today. Farid Hotak, spokesman for the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB), said that the match is due to be played in Harare of Zimbabwe with the Afghan team expected to play two matches as part of the Warm-up matches. The second match is due to be played in Harare...
Pakistan will not force some 2 million Afghan refugees in the country to leave but encourages voluntary repatriation, a Pakistani cabinet minister said Monday, as the legal stay of around 1.4 million registered refugees in Pakistan will end on March 31. According to Pakistani media, Pakistan Minister for States and Frontier Regions Abdul Qadir Baloch told members of the Pak-Afghan Track II Dialogue in...
The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Martyrs and Disabled today allocated 10 billion Afs to fund salaries of retired government servants. The ministry spokesman Abdul Fatah Ishrat Ahmadzai said that the number of retired officials in the country is 135, 121. As many as 989 of them served in civilians positions and 43, 135 retired from the security establishment. He said 100,007 had been...
Afghan security forces pushed back Taliban offensives in Uruzgan province. Dost Mohammad Nayeb, spokesman for Uruzgan governor, told Killid that Taliban militants launched attacks on Afghan security forces’ check posts in Trinkot which was met with severe resistance from Afghan forces. He added five Taliban insurgents were killed during the clashes and there were no casualties among Afghan forces. Taliban militants are yet to comment. ...
Syrian government forces have launched a ground and air offensive in Eastern Ghouta, witnesses said, hours after the UN Security Council voted unanimously in favour of a resolution calling for a 30-day ceasefire in Syria. President Bashar al-Assad's forces began fighting opposition groups from multiple fronts in the rebel-held enclave near Damascus on Sunday morning, while Syrian warplanes continued to shell the besieged area...
Six civilians were either killed or injured in two separate incidents in Laghman and Nangarhar provinces. Ataullah Khogyani, spokesman for Nangarhar governor, said that a mine placed in a Toyota vehicle exploded in Laghman Ada area of Jalalabad, provincial capital of Nangarhar, yesterday evening in which three civilians were injured. Sarhadi Zowak, spokesman for Laghman governor, said that three civilians were killed in an old...
The Ministry of Counter narcotics, in cooperation with police, on Sunday picked 200 drug addicts from various areas in Kabul and handed them over to a NATO camp for treatment. Mohammad Hanif Danish Yar, spokesman for the ministry, told a press conference that some of the addicts were taken to the Camp Qargha, formerly known as Camp Phoenix, voluntary and others by force from...
At least nine armed anti-government insurgents were killed and three injured in Afghan security forces’ operation codenamed ‘Alborz 24’ in Tala Wa Barfak district of Baghlan province yesterday. Mohammad Hanif Rezayee, spokesman for 209 Shaheen Military Corps, told Killid that Afghan forces destroyed Taliban hideouts in Dormosh area of the district. He added that in a separate incident eight villages were cleared of insurgents in...