An IED placed in a wheelbarrow exploded Wednesday around 1:00pm in Balkh district of northern Balkh province, said provincial police spokesman Adel Shah Adel.
Three Afghan National Army soldiers and 13 civilians, including women and children, were wounded in the explosion, he said.
There was no claim of responsibility.
Afghanistan, already gripped by decades-long war and violence, has been witnessing a rise in bomb attacks.
The attacks,...
The participants hailed the United Nations’ active and effective involvement in the Afghan peace process, adding a reduction in violence and establishing ceasefire are necessary to ensuring peace and stability in Afghanistan.
The conference attendees also voiced concern over the continued ties between the Taliban and al-Qaeda and on using the Afghan soil as a safe harbor for other terrorist groups.
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A key member of the al-Qaeda, Dawlat Baig Tajik known as Abu Mohammad al Tajiki, and a Taliban prominent commander, Hazrat Ali known as Hamza, a native of Waziristan were killed in a special forces’ operation in Giyan district of Paktika province, read a spy agency’s statement.
They were the behind deadly attacks of the Taliban and al-Qaeda, according to the statement.
The men killed...
A remote-controlled explosive device was placed and set up near a mosque in Paghman district of the Afghan capital on Tuesday evening, Kabul, said provincial police spokesman Ferdaws Faramarz.
The bomb was found and defused by Kabul police, he added.
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...
A car collided with another Tuesday evening on way to Herat-Kandahar highway.
Ibrahim Mohammadi, director of the Herat ambulance service, said two dead and three wounded were taken to hospital.
A woman was among the dead, he said.
It follows another car crash in the province which took place in the same area.
According to officials, more than a dozen were killed or wounded in the accident....
At least 70 people tested positive for the coronavirus pandemic within the past 24 hours, according to the health ministry’s data published Tuesday.
The country lost eight COVID-19 patients during the same period.
This pushed the total deaths related to the disease to 2,484, according to ministry’s figures.
Also, 705 patients having been contracted with the COVID-19 disease have recovered over the past 24 hours, bringing...
The polio vaccination workers were killed in separate attacks in the fourth and seventh districts of Jalalabad city, the provincial capital, the source spoke to TKG on condition of anonymity.
The source put the toll of the dead to four women and a man who were polio vaccination workers.
Provincial officials confirmed the attack without disclosing details of casualties.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
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In a statement released last night, Ministry of Defense announced government air forces launched air raids, targeting a Taliban cache of explosives in Abband district of the province.
The cache comprising 200 packs of explosives was demolished in the raid, according to the statement.
There was no comment from the Taliban yet....
It can be inferred from the four decades bitter war in Afghanistan that there is no military solution to the conflict, President Emomali Rahmon said.
“We will take effective measures to resolve the Afghanistan conflict,” he said.
Tajik President declared his country’s support for the Afghan peace process, adding its support to Afghanistan is of the priories of the Tajik nation.
Mr. Rahmon further said his...
According to a statement released by the Afghan Foreign Ministry, both sides discussed the outcomes of Monday’s conference and the next round of Turkey-hosted peace talks which will be held in April.
Turkish Foreign Minister has expressed hope that the conference of Heart of Asia – Istanbul Process and the upcoming Turkey-hosted conference will lead to peace and ending long-decades war in Afghanistan.
Turkey will...
