The Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan (MoD) said the leaderships of the terrorist groups are based in Pakistan, apparently gesturing towards the Taliban’s Quetta Council and the Haqqani terrorist network using the Pakistani soil to conduct operations in Afghanistan. A spokesman for the Ministry of Defense (MoD), Dawlat Waziri, told reporters that Taliban’s supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was killed ...

KABUL: The Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah has said some Taliban leaders will likely join peace process with the confirmation of Mullah Akhtar Mansoor’s death. Abdullah further added an investigation is underway by the government of Afghanistan to ascertain the fate of Mullah Mansoor. The Chief Executive Officer said Mansoor has most probably been killed in the airstrike by the ...

AFGHANISTAN: The Pakistani military announced Saturday that Angoor Adda check post was handed over to the Afghan National Security and Defense Forces (ANSDF). A spokesman for the Pakistani military said the check post was handed over to the Afghan forces in a bid to improve bilateral relations and border management. “To strengthen brotherly relation between Pakistan and Afghanistan and with ...

KABUL: President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani expressed optimism regarding efforts to empower the Afghan women, emphasizing that the women are moving forward in making progress equally and should to shoulder with the men. Ghani further added that the women in the country are now capable to independently represent themselves. The Afghan women suffered the most during the past several decades and ...

AFGHANISTAN: The United Kingdom reaffirmed support ot the Afghanistan National Defence and Security Forces (ANDSF) and confirmed to sustain an annual contribution of £70 until 2020. The commitment was made by the British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond during the NATO foreign ministerial in Brussels on Friday. The British Embassy in Kabul, citing Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, said UK will continue ...

The foreign ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Friday agreed to sustain the alliance’s mission in Afghanistan beyond 2016. “Foreign Ministers from the nations participating in Resolute Support agreed today (20 May 2016) to sustain the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan beyond 2016 in a sign of strong commitment to the stability of the country,” a statement by ...

The US Secretary of State John Kerry has said 9,800 American troops will remain in Afghanistan through most of this year. “Tomorrow we will discuss Afghanistan. And we’re going to review the progress of the Resolute Support mission and the need to continue our financial assistance for Afghan Security Forces and the imperative of planning for a new, flexible, regional ...

AFGHANISTAN: The Russian helicopters company officials have said they are prepared to establish a service center in Afghanistan to provide repair and other technical services to the Afghan Air Force. The Chief Executive Officer of the Russian Helicopters Alexander Mikheev has said the company is also prepared to assist the Afghan Air Force in training the Afghan technical staff and ...

AFGHANISTAN: A top Afghan army general Abdul Basir Sharwan was martyred in an explosion southern Kandahar province, the third senior Afghan general martyred in a span of almost 4 months. According to the provincial government media office, Gen. Sharwand, the commander of the 1st Brigade of 205th Atal Corps of Afghan National Army, was martyred while he was on his ...

KABUL: NATO foreign ministers would discuss common interests with regard to the security situation in Afghanistan at a meeting in Brussels on Friday, a US diplomat said on Thursday. Ahead of the meeting, Ambassador Douglas Lute told a media briefing: “For NATO, I think it’s safe to describe Afghanistan as unfinished business.  And so for the Warsaw Summit we have ...