Tariq Arian, spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs (MoI), said Sunday that at least 63 civilians have been killed and 180 others injured in Taliban attacks and bombings from April 14 to April 25.
Women and children had been also among the victims, according to the spokesman.
The recently scaled up violence have gripped the country already ravaged by decades-long war.
The insurgent group...
According to the sources, Ahmad Fawad Amiri, said to be employee of the Administrative Office of the President, was shot and killed Saturday evening in Paghman district of Kabul province.
Amiri was killed when he was on way to mosque in Muslim Abad area for Tarawih prayer—Muslim ritual prayer offered during Ramadan.
There was no claim of responsibility for the attack.
The armed men managed to...
India is in the grip of a rampaging second wave of the pandemic, hitting a rate of one COVID-19 death in just under every four minutes in Delhi as the capital's underfunded health system buckles.
The government has deployed military planes and trains to get oxygen from the far corners of the country to Delhi. Television showed an oxygen truck arriving at Delhi's Batra...
The meeting was held in Istanbul, with Afghan Foreign Minister Mohammad Haneef Atmar joining it via video-conference.
In a joint statement released following the conference on Friday, foreign ministers of Afghanistan, Turkey and Pakistan called on the Taliban to reaffirm its commitment to “achieving an inclusive negotiated settlement for ensuring lasting peace in the war-torn country.
Afghanistan's Mohammad Haneef Atmar, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu,...
In a statement released Friday, the Ministry of Defense said as many as 149 Taliban militants had been killed in seven provinces—Ghazni, Nangarhar, Paktia, Balkh, Herat, Ghor, Helmand and Kandahar provinces.
At least 70 other militants had been wounded in clashes with government forces, said the statement.
A number of weapons had also been demolished, according to the statement, and 30 bombs of any kind...
Gunmen on Friday night opened fire in a mosque in provincial capital of Laghman province, in eastern Afghanistan, killing two people.
Assadullah Dawlatzai, a spokesman for Laghman province’s governor, said a tribal elder was among the dead.
According to the governor’s spokesman, another two people were injured in the attack.
Perpetrators managed to flee the area, Mr. Dawlatzai said.
There was no claim of responsibility for...
Ferdaws Faramarz, spokesman for the Kabul police chief, said unknown armed men on Saturday morning opened fire and killed at least four security personnel and a civilian in Afghanistan’s capital.
The incidents took place separately in the fourth district and Paghman district of the capital.
Mr. Faramarz said an investigation was ongoing.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.
Afghanistan is experiencing a nationwide spike in...
The Turkish Foreign Ministry on Tuesday quoted that Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said the talks had been postponed to after Muslim holy month of Ramadan and that talks would begin after Eid-al Fitr.
“We have consulted with Qatar, the US and the UN,” tweeted the Turkish Foreign Ministry, citing Mr. Cavusoglu. “We have decided to postpone the Istanbul Conference on the #Afghanistan peace process...
Unknown armed men on Tuesday morning, around 7:40 local time, opened fire and killed two security personnel, said Fardaws Faramarz, provincial police spokesman.
The attack took place in the twelfth district of Kabul city.
According to police spokesman, an investigation was underway.
There was no claim of responsibility for the attack and no arrest was made....
Afghan Ministry of Interior said Tuesday, April 20, that Taliban insurgents on Monday wanted to attack on a security outpost in Ghoryan district of Herat province, using a car rigged with explosives.
Government forces identified the suicide bomber and foiled the attempt before hitting the target, it said.
Herat provincial media outlets, however, said in a statement that two security soldiers were killed and as...
