KABUL: The Human Rights Watch in its latest report has revealed that young Afghan boys as young as fourteen years old have been recruited by Iran to fight in Syria. According to a new report by the Human Right Watch, the children have been recruited y the Revolutionary Guard of Iran and several of them have been killed and buried ...

KABUL: At least four people including two Pakistanis have been arrested on charges of supplying weapons and ammunition to the anti-government armed militant groups in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan. The provincial government in a statement said the men were arrested during an operation from Momand Dara district. The statement further added that the suspects had placed eight rounds of ...

KABUL: President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani says Afghans are one nation and believed in one creed, a fact the enemy of Afghanistan should know and believed that they will never be able to divide this nation. The president expressed the view in a gathering marking 10th Muharramul Haram or Ashura Day at Imam Zaman Mosque here. He said: “our enemy should know that effort to divide us will fail. We ...

KABUL: President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and the Pakistani army chief of staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa held talks on key bilateral issues. The Office of the President, ARG Palace, in a statement said President Ghani welcomed the delegation of the Pakistani officials led by Gen. Bajwa. President Ghani hailed the visit by the Pakistani officials as an important step considering ...

KABUL: US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis has accused Iran and Russia over armed support to Afghan Taliban, a media report said on Saturday. The Pentagon chief blasted Russia and Iran’s continued support to Taliban jihadists, echoing concerns previously expressed by US officials, including Gen. Nicholson, who has also noted that Pakistan is assisting the terrorist group as well. “Those two countries have suffered ...

KABUL: At least twenty militants including Pakistani and ISIS insurgents were killed in the airstrike and military operations in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan. The provincial government media office in a statement said the militants were killed in Nazian and Lalpur districts. The statement further added that seven Pakistani militants and fifteen ISIS loyalists were killed in total during the ...

KABUL: The Afghan government strongly reacted at the misrepresentation of the information by Pakistan regarding the prisoners including the alleged swap of prisoners as well as that of the alleged Indian spy Kulbhushan Jhadav. “This is an information statement and to correct the record on the comments addressed by H.E. Khawaja Muhammad Asif, the Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic ...

KABUL: A suicide bomber posing as a shepherd blew himself up near a Shia mosque in Kabul on Friday killing at least six people, police said, as Muslims prepare to observe the holy month of Muharram The attack in the north of the Afghan capital happened as worshipers were gathered inside Hussainia mosque, one of the biggest Shia centers in ...

KABUL: At least three people including two policemen were killed and 18 people were injured Thursday evening in Kabul city after a bomb attached to a police vehicle exploded in central Kabul city, official said. The sticky bomb was attached to a police vehicle and exploded at 6:30pm at first Police District in Chindawol area of the Kabul city, Najib Danish, ...

KABUL: The former President Hamid Karzai says that if Afghans were fully maintain security of their country, so none can dare to attack the airport. Former President said this during a gathering to mark the death anniversary of Prof. Burhanuddin Rabbani, the former President and High Peace Council Head. Karzai hoped that the Taliban to join the Afghan peace and ...