KABUL: Suicide bombers struck a crowded Shia mosque in Kabul late Thursday, killing four people in the latest in a series of militant attacks to rattle the Afghan capital during the holy month of Ramazan. At least eight others were wounded when the bombers blew themselves up in the kitchen of Al Zahra mosque after police prevented them from entering ...

The United States secretary of defense, Jim Mattis has recently said that his country had not winning the war in Afghanistan. The United States is involved in the longest war of its history. Washington made a coalition in late 2001 and invaded Afghanistan, after the 09/11 attacks on the World Trade Center twin towers to eliminate the al-Qaeda terrorist group ...

KABUL: The United Nations Secretary General, António Guterres‏ in a surprised visit arrived in Kabul Wednesday to talk to government and people. In a video clip tweeted by UNAMA, the Secretary General in his visit after hours of landing from a displace camp in outskirt Kabul said that “It’s my intention every years to play a solidarity visit in Ramadan, ...

KABUL: The Human Rights Watch has called on the European nations to temporarily stop deportation of Afghan refugees as Afghanistan is not yet safe where a teen Afghan was killed in a suicide attack less than a week after being deported by Sweden, AFP reported. The killed teen Afghan was among the 20 asylum seekers who were rejected and deported ...

KABUL: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday arrived in capital Kabul on an unscheduled visit. He is due tomeet national unity government leaders and UN officials in the country. The UN secretary general is in Kabul for the first time after assuming office to show solidarity with the people of Afghanistan for peace, stability and development, said the UN ...

KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani says China would mediate between Afghanistan and Pakistan for the first time, with the Chinese foreign minister set to visit Kabul soon. Ghani’s office said in a statement on Tuesday the president made the statement during a meeting with women activists from different organisations. The president equated the May 31 bombing in Kabul to the 9/11 ...

Defense Secretary James Mattis told a congressional panel late Monday President Donald Trump will get options presented to him “very soon” on how to deal with the conflict in Afghanistan, including whether to send more U.S. troops there amid the worsening violence. Mattis stressed that the Afghanistan matter should be viewed more broadly as a regional issue since it could ...

KABUL: The Haqqani terrorist network has released a new audio message of the network’s leader Sirajuddin Haqqani, nearly two weeks after a series of deadly attacks hit Kabul city. The new audio message was distributed to media by the Taliban group spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid. Sirajuddin Haqqani who is the also the deputy supreme leader of the Taliban group, rejects that ...

JALALABAD: The Nangarhar governor has said ‘there are still some volatile groups on whom enforcing the law by cent percent can create problems for the system.’ Mohammad Gulab Mangal told Pajhwok Afghan News during an exclusive interview that long-term efforts had been launched to control such factions, but stopped short of going into details. The governor said efforts at ensuring ...

KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif have agreed to speed up fight against terrorist outfits and to bolster bilateral cooperation, TOLO news reported. Ghani and Sharif held a meeting on the sideline of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit this weekend in Astana of Kazakhstan, where they joined hands to intensify their joint efforts in a bid ...