In a Ramadan message, President Ghani on Monday offered a ceasefire for Taliban during the holy month of Ramadan, calling on the group to end the violence and accept a truce. President Ashraf Ghani emphasized he will seize the opportunity to ensure a just and sustainable peace in the country. It comes a day after Taliban backed out of participation in and announced they were...
Afghan security forces on Monday night carried out an operation in the third district of Taloqan city, the provincial capital of Takhar, to arrest a suspect accused of murder, said police spokesman Khalil Aseer. The suspect who had hidden himself inside a store opened fire, wounding Ibrahim Doorandish, the police’s security chief. He was rushed to hospital but died of injuries. According to the spokesman, police...
Mr. Blinken will join U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in Brussels. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity on Saturday, did not release additional details on the trip. Austin was scheduled to visit NATO headquarters in Belgium on a trip that started on Saturday and also includes Israel, Germany and Britain, the Pentagon said last week. The trip by two of President Joe Biden's Cabinet...
Recording new COVID-19 cases on Monday, India overtook Brazil to become the second-most affected country globally by the coronavirus. According to Reuters’ tally, India's total case count reached 13.53 million, surpassing Brazil's 13.45 million cases. The United States is the first worst-hit country in the world with 31.2 million cases. New deaths in India stood at 904, taking the total to 170,179. (Reuters)...
According to Afghan health ministry, as many as eight more patients have died after contracting the disease, pushing the toll of fatalities to 2,529.. Also, as many as 82 new cases of infection were reported in the country, bringing the nationwide case count to 57,242. The new infection cases were registered in Kabul, Herat, Kandahar, Nangarhar, Kunduz, Nimroz, Helmand, Khost, Laghman and Kunar provinces. Some 51,989...
The Taliban militants last night killed a public servant named Aziz Rahman near the fifth district of Kabul city in Qala-e Kashif area, said police spokesman Ferdaws Faramarz. Police forces took action, killing one militant and arresting another who sustained injuries in clashes with government forces. Two policemen were lightly wounded in those clashes, the provincial police added. Two pistols were also seized from the insurgents,...
U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad on Saturday arrived in Kabul and met with top peace official Abdullah Abdullah and President Ghani in Kabul. He met President Ghani for the second time. According to presidential office, Ambassador Khalilzad and Afghan President discussed the upcoming Turkey-hosted peace summit on Afghanistan and preparations for it which likely to take place in Istanbul this month. It follows...
The vaccine doses include both from Moderna, Pfizer/BioNTech and Johnson and Johnson vaccines as of Saturday morning, the agency said. Those figures are up from the 178,837,781 doses the CDC said had been administered by April 9, out of 233,591,955 doses delivered. According to the disease control agency, as many as 117,142,879 people had at least received one dose, while 70,692,645 people were fully inoculated...
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The state-run Saudi Press Agency identified the men as soldiers working in the Defense Ministry. It did not elaborate on how the men aided the kingdom's enemies. Saudi Arabia is fighting Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. The kingdom also views Iran as a regional archrival. The kingdom said the three men were convicted in court and a later royal order served as a death warrant. Saudi Arabia...