Iqbal Baher, spokesman for Farah police, told Killid that eight Taliban insurgents were killed and 10 injured in Taliban attacks on police check posts in Posht Koh district.
He added that coalition forces also targeted a Taliban vehicle in Dasht-e-Balot area of Posht Ko in which six Taliban insurgents were killed and their explosives were destroyed.
Taliban militants are yet to comment on the incidents.
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The US has dismissed reported discussions between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Washington officials over plans to annex Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.
"Reports that the United States discussed with Israel an annexation plan for the West Bank are false," said White House spokesman Josh Raffel, late on Monday. "The United States and Israel have never discussed such a proposal."
Raffel added...
Afghans living in Brussels, the capital of Belgium, have staged a protest to condemn recent terrorist attacks in Kabul and Pakistan’s alleged support for insurgents.
Hundreds of people were killed and wounded in the latest spate of high casualty attacks in Kabul, claimed by the Taliban.
Shan Pacha Shinwari, one of the rally organizers in Brussels, said that they held their demonstration in front of...
In a meeting with the army chiefs of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in Kabul on Monday, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said that the arrival of top security officials from these central Asian nations opens a new chapter of security and economic cooperation in the region.
“I received COAS of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan in ARG today. Their arrival marks a new beginning of cooperation between the...
Pakistan Chief Of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Tuesday arrived in Kabul to attend Chief of Defence (CHOD) conference, informed a press release issued by ISPR.
The COAS is expected to meet Commander USCENTCOM, Commander Resolute Support Mission( RSM ) and Afghan Army Chief in the CHOD conference.
Earlier, on February 3, a top-level delegation of Pakistan’s civil and military leadership, led...
Marzia Reha Rahmanyar, Afghan female student in India, received medal of “Best International Student of Pune University.
Mohammad Asef Rahimi, governor of Herat, appreciated Rahmanyar’s achievement and congratulated all Afghans for wining this honor.
Earlier Rahmanyar, who is studying her aster degree, had won a competition among students from 100 countries.
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The Ministry of Interior Affairs (MoI) said four Taliban insurgents were killed in an explosion triggered by a premature blast in a Vehicle-borne Improvised Explosive Device in Farah province.
A press release from MoI stated that four Taliban insurgents riding a motor bomb were on their way to reach their target when the explosives went off.
The blast took place on Sunday evening in the...
A passenger plane carrying 71 people crashed minutes after take-off from Moscow's Domodedovo airport killing everyone on board.
Saratov Airlines Flight 703 went down on Sunday near Ramenskoye town, about 40km from Moscow's second-largest airport.
Maxim Sololov, Russia's transportation minister, confirmed there were no survivors.
The Antonov An-148 aircraft had 65 passengers and six crew members on board when it went down.
The plane was heading from...
Ministry of Public Health announced that the second winter polio campaign will begin today.
A press release from health ministry stated that campaign will immunise over six million children less than five years old in 21 provinces.
The statement added that polio workers will go from house to house in their communities to vaccinate children.
Polio is a child killer and the vaccine is the only...
Wali Jan Sherzad, 33, a resident of Sherzad district of Nangarhar province, who currently lives in Pul-i-Charkhi area on the eastern outskirts of Kabul City, has invented a water heater that can boil 100 litres of water in less than two hours.
He made the heater with the help of iron, wood, glass and other things. Sherzad studied school till class eight and is...
