Press TV June 27, 2016 Nearly two dozen people have been killed in a fresh US drone strike in a restive district in northern Afghanistan, local sources say. Provincial Afghan officials said on Monday that the strike in northern Kunduz province killed seven civilians who were being held by the Taliban militant group. Sources say
VOA News Ayaz Gul June 27, 2016 ISLAMABAD—An Afghan insurgent group says differences over the presence of U.S.-led international troops in Afghanistan have left its peace talks with the government deadlocked. The Hezb-i-Islami (HIA) faction led by fugitive former warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has accused Afghan negotiators of unilaterally altering certain provisions in the peace deal
TRINKOT, Afghanistan, June 27 (Xinhua) — Unknown armed men gunned down a former chief of government-backed peace body, the High Peace Council (HPC), in Afghanistan’s southern Uruzgan province on Sunday, spokesman for provincial government Dost Mohammad Nayab said Monday. “The former HPC chief in Uruzgan province Abdul Baqi was in a shop in the provincial
1TV: Afghanistan’s First Vice-President Abdul Rashid Dostum is apparently unsatisfied with his share in unity government. He said he didn’t approve a “fifty-fifty concept” from the very beginning. “Everybody knows General Dostum’s role… Where is our percentage?,” Dostum told 1TV in Faryab province. “We don’t have a single ambassador, what we have is only two governors.” Click here
Tolo News: A new decree issued by Iran’s Interior Ministry enables Afghan refugees in the country to get schooling for their children free of charge, Iranian media reported. The Afghan families residing in Iran will no more have to pay any fee to sign up their children in Iranian schools, the Iranian Interior Ministry said. Click
Tolo News: The Kabul Zoo is experiencing a sharp annual rise in visitors as over 1,500 visitors on weekdays and nearly 5,000 over weekends come to see the animals, say officials The income from the zoo, the only one in the country, has increased by up to 40 percent over the past three months – compared to
Tolo News: Up to 45,000 Madrasas in Pakistan continue to train, fund and send terrorists to fight against Afghanistan, the The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said on Sunday. According to the MoD, terrorists currently fighting the Afghan security forces are fostered in the Pakistani Madrasas. The terrorists are educated and equipped and then dispatched to Afghanistan to
VOA News Ayaz Gul June 26, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Syria’s main opposition alliance is conveying serious concerns over Iran’s campaign of recruiting and training thousands of Afghan men to fight in Syria. Officials in Afghanistan confirmed Sunday they have received a letter expressing the concerns from the Syrians. The letter urges President Ashraf Ghani to take urgent steps
VOA News June 26, 2016 Ayaz Gul ISLAMABAD — Officials in eastern Afghanistan say security forces have killed more than 135 Islamic State (IS) militants, including top commanders, and wounded many more in days of ground and air raids near the border with Pakistan. The clashes in Nangarhar province’s Kot district subsided on Sunday, but search
Tolo News: Afghanistan is by a long way still the world’s largest opium producer, accounting for some 70 percent (3,300 tons) of global opium production, according to the United Nations World Drug Report of 2016. Myanmar is the second largest producer of the drug at 14 per cent (650 tons) of global production. Click here to read