KABUL: At least eight members of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba group were killed in airstrikes conducted in southern Helmand province of Afghanistan. The Ministry of Defense (MoD) in a statement confirmed the militants were killed in Nawa district of Helmand. The statement further added that a total of eleven insurgents were killed in the airstrikes, including eight members of Lashkar-e-Taiba. According ...

KABUL: The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has honored one of its veteran officers who had once saved the life of the former Afghan President Hamid Karzai. The officer who has now retired after serving for almost thirty years has been identified as Greg Vogle. According to the reports, Vogle has served in various missions domestically and internationally while ...

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani emphasizes terrorist threats and backs new U.S. strategy NEW YORK: The Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has said the Taliban and their backers cannot win militarily as he called on the group to engage in intra-Afghan talks to end the violence. Speaking during the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, President Ghani welcomed the ...

KABUL: More than 3,000 additional US troops are their way to Afghanistan in line with President Donald Trump’s new strategy, media reports said on Tuesday. Defense Secretary James Mattis told a news conference at the Pentagon he had signed the order to send more troops to the war-torn country at the end of last month. The troops — half of them from ...

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KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani says hate creates divisions among peoples while hope removes distance, stressing the need for efforts to promote amenity. Ghani, who arrived to New York on Monday evening to attend the 72nd United Nations General Assembly, made the remarks in his address at a Global Hope Coalition event. A statement from the Presidential Palace in Kabul said ...

KABUL: The Iranian officials have expressed concerns regarding the growing cultivation and production of saffron in Afghanistan, saying the country has turned into a serious rival endangering the saffron industry in Iran. Iran’s Saffron Exports Development Fund board of directors’ member Farhad Saharkhiz quoted by the local IRNA news agency said saffron production in Afghanistan has turned into a serious ...

KABUL: The leader of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin Hekmatyar accused the political parties for sparking tensions and differences among the people. Hekmatyar made the remarks during a meeting with the members of the institute of youths for change. He claimed that Hezb-e-Islami is the only party that has greater influence across the country and the other parties have became a reason for ...

KABUL: President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani left for the United States on an official visit to participate in the UN General Assembly and meet his US counterpart President Donald Trump. The Office of the President, ARG Palace, confirmed that President Ghani has left for New York city after concluding his visit to Turkmenistan. President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani is expected to meet ...

Pakistan’s prime minister admits three or four insurgents crossed the border into Afghanistan and carried out the deadly May truck bombing in Kabul. PAKISTAN: The Pakistani Prime Minister in an unprecedented statement has confessed that the bombers who blew up a tanker near the German embassy in Kabul late in May, had likely travelled from Pakistan. PM Abbasi made the ...