The U.S. Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad, on Saturday arrived in the capital, Kabul, and met with Afghan leaders ahead of an upcoming peace conference in Turkey.
Afghan High Council for National Reconciliation said the U.S. envoy met with Abdullah Abdullah, chairman of the council, who oversees the government peace talks with the Taliban.
According to his office, both discussed next steps to peace.
Following...
Mubarez knocked out his rival in the second round of the fight.
Earlier Friday evening, Rohullah Mohammadi, another MMA fighter beat his Iranian foe Milad Shahbazi in the “Fight Night”.
In this round of the “Fight Night” competitions, eight athletes—four Afghans and four foreigners participated.
The competitions were broadcast on TOLOnews and Lemar, Afghan local media....
Afghan forces on Saturday morning found and defused a bomb placed inside a flower pot in Joi Sheer area, second district of Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, provincial police said.
There was no claim of responsibility for the plot.
Afghanistan, already gripped by decades-long war and violence, has been witnessing a rise in bomb attacks.
The attacks, often without claim of responsibility, claims lives of civilians mostly....
On Friday, armed Taliban had dug a tunnel, lengthed 100 meters, under residential houses to attack on the police headquarters of Qaisar district, said the ministry in a statement.
An explosion took place while the militants were placing explosives, it read.
According to the statement, at least nine Taliban insurgents were killed and another three wounded in the explosion.
There were damages to nearby houses and...
Afghan forces on Friday carried out airstrikes, said the ministry, killing Qari Haidar, the Taliban shadow district governor for Warduj district of Badakhshan province.
As many as 21 other militants were also killed in the raids, it said.
Other 23 were wounded and seven strongholds and hideouts destroyed, according to the ministry.
The Taliban officials have not commented yet....
Provincial officials have said, without releasing details of causalities, that several explosions have taken place near gas utility companies in Kamar Kalagh, an area in the outskirts of provincial capital of Herat city.
Ambulances were dispatched, according to the source.
The provincial governor, Sayed Wahid Qitali, said Afghan forces and fire fighters were at the scene trying to extinguish the fire.
There were no details of...
The arrested man, named Shah Mahmoud, was responsible for Pachiragam district of the province, according to the statement.
He was also the plotter of an IS' group responsible for targeted killings, it read.
The statement further announced the arrest of two other suspects along with Shah Mahmoud belonging to the Islamic State group.
The group has yet to comment to media....
According to Pakistani media citing figures from the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), at least 98 more patients have died after contracting the disease, pushing the toll of fatalities to 15,124.
Also, as many as 5,329 new cases of infection were reported in the country, bringing the nationwide case count to 705,517.
Some 623,399 patients have recovered from the virus since the outbreak first...
Afghan forces on Wednesday carried out air and ground operations in four districts of Kandahar province, said Ministry of Defense.
The raids were carried out in Zhari, Shah Walikot, Maiwand and Arghandab districts, according to ministry’s statement.
As many as 31 Taliban militants were killed and 19 others wounded in the raids.
There was no comment from the Taliban officials yet....
Unknown armed men on Wednesday morning shot and killed man named Ismail in Paghman district of the capital Kabul, provincial police spokesman Ferdaws Faramarz confirmed the murder.
Ismail was said to be Head of the Administrative Office of the National Statistic and Information Authority.
The perpetrators have managed to flee the area, according to the spokesman, investigations were underway.
There was no claim of responsibility for...
