AFGHANISTAN: A suicide car bomber killed 18 people in the eastern Afghan city of Khost on Saturday, the first day of the holy fasting month of Ramazan, the interior ministry said. Ministry spokesman Najib Danish told AFP a public bus station was hit by the bombing, but local police said the target were Afghan security forces working with American troops ...

BRUSSELS: Wrapping up a day-long summit, NATO leaders on Thursday agreed to do more to fight terrorism and ensure fairer burden sharing. They also reviewed the alliance’s training mission in Afghanistan, and agreed to continue to sustain the mission. The meeting was a strong demonstration of transatlantic unity and resolve, with allies taking important decisions to do more in the ...

KABUL : President Ashraf Ghani says he is still awaiting the implementation of the commitments Pakistan made five months ago to help end the conflict in the country. In an interview with a Pan-Arab daily, Ghani alleged many terrorists were hiding in Pakistan and collecting funds there, but concrete action against the extremists was yet to be taken. He told Asharq ...

Every human mind is capable of thinking. On the pattern of thought process, we can divide the human beings into three categories. First, some people know that they are thinking, but unable to channelize their thought processes. Second, most of the people are not even aware that they are thinking. Third, very few of them know that they are thinking ...

Security forces arrested the father and younger brother of the suicide bomber in Libya while British police arrest a seventh suspect. TRTWORLD: More arrests have been made in connection with the deadly suicide bomb attack at a concert venue in Manchester. The attack was claimed by Daesh. At least 22 people were killed and dozens others wounded when a suicide ...

GERMANY: An Afghan asylum seeker has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of having links with the Taliban group in Afghanistan. A statement by Germany’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office in a statement said the detained asylum seeker has been identified as Oamid N and was arrested on Friday. The statement further added that the asylum seeker is accused of killing a ...

Despite the US signing a bilateral security and defence pact with Afghanistan in 2014, civilian casualties are on the rise, the death rate of Afghan security forces is at an all time high, and terrorism has sharply increased. President Trump is expected to make a decision on a proposal to strengthen US military presence in Afghanistan and send between 3,000 ...

KABUL: The NATO Secretary General said Wednesday of increasing more troops to Afghanistan in order to overcome the stalemate and to further enhance capabilities of Afghan special forces is expected to be taken in the month of June. “We have recently completed our regular review of our training mission. And our military commanders have asked for a few thousand more ...

KARACHI: Awami National Party President Asfandyar Wali Khan on Sunday criticised the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government for backtracking on its pledge to merge the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) with Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. “The federal cabinet has approved the recommendations — that enjoy a broad political consensus — of the FATA Reforms Committee, but Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is continuously lying about ...

The savagely violent murder of Mashal Khan on April 13 is a grim reminder of our consistency in aversion for critical minds and free thinking from olden times down to present day. This lynching is not a unique episode in human history. Socrates (470-399 BC), the classical Greek Philosopher was accused of corrupting minds of youths and impiety. He preferred ...