Driving School For Women Launched In Jawzjan
Tolo News: The Women’s Council of the National Islamic Movement in Afghanistan has launched a driving school for women in Jawzjan – the first in the province. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: The Women’s Council of the National Islamic Movement in Afghanistan has launched a driving school for women in Jawzjan – the first in the province. Click here to read more (external link).
Khaama Press: Pakistan’s Ministry of Commerce has decided to send a high level delegation comprising officials and businessmen to Afghanistan to address issues that are responsible for Pakistan losing its traditional flour export market in Afghanistan. Click here to read more (external link).
KABUL, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) — Afghan army has found and defused 17 Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in two southern provinces, the country’s Defense Ministry said on Wednesday. “The Afghan National Army’s 205 Attal Corps personnel launched several cleanup operations in southern Kandahar and neighboring Uruzgan provinces, recovering 17 rounds of landmines and IEDs over the
The New York Times: Al Qaeda training camps are sprouting up in Afghanistan, forcing the Pentagon and American intelligence agencies to assess whether they could again become a breeding ground for attacks on the United States. Click here to read more (external link).
Khaama Press: In a telephonic interview with USA TODAY from Kabul, Gen. John Campbell said that maintaining the current force of 9,800 U.S. troops to train Afghan forces and conduct counter-terrorism raids is vital, and that the scheduled reduction to 5,500 by Jan. 1, 2017, should be put off as long as possible. Click here to
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 29, 2015 An Afghan businessman has been charged with bribing U.S. soldiers to obtain millions of dollars in U.S. supply contracts in a major U.S. court case targeting corruption during the war in Afghanistan. A criminal complaint filed December 23 in a North Carolina federal court charges trucking company owner
VOA News / December 29, 2015 The suicide bombing Tuesday at a government office building in northwest Pakistan highlights the increasingly violent presence of the Islamic State militant group in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region. Jamaat ul-Ahrar, which is part of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) umbrella militant group and has reportedly joined forces with IS, has claimed
VOA News / December 29, 2015 Fed up with the worsening security and dwindling economic opportunities in their country, Afghans are fleeing to Europe in numbers not seen even under the repressive Taliban regime. About 200,000 Afghan asylum-seekers were registered in 27 European member states from January to December of 2015, according to the International
VOA News / December 29, 2015 ISLAMABAD — Counterterrorism authorities in Pakistan say they have arrested a group of 13 suspected militants operating a recruiting and training facility for Islamic State. Officials at the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) told VOA a telephone intercept prompted them to conduct the raid earlier this week against the IS-linked
Khaama Press: The Afghanistan national cricket team defeated Zimbabwe by 4 wickets during the second One Day International (ODI) match of Zimbabwe tour of United Arab Emirates. Click here to read more (external link).