Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 31, 2020 British-based charity Save the Children says more than 300,000 Afghan children are struggling to survive in freezing winter conditions without proper clothing and heating. The ongoing 19-year conflict there has forces thousands of children to flee their homes and seek shelter in camps for internally displaced people (IDPs),
Radio Free Afghanistan December 31, 2020 KABUL — An Afghan official says an explosion has struck a car carrying an employee from the Afghan president’s office in Kabul, critically wounding the official and killing his driver. Police said on December 31 that a magnetic bomb was attached to the car carrying Jawid Wali, deputy director
Tolo News: The US President Donald Trump received information earlier this month that China sought to pay non-state actors to attack American forces in Afghanistan, a senior administration official told CNN. The intelligence, which will be declassified by the Trump administration, was provided to the President in his daily brief on December 17, the official
Ariana: Minister of Public Health Ahmad Jawad Osmani said on Thursday that cases of the new strain of Coronavirus had been detected in Pakistan and India and urged Afghans not to travel to either country for at least four weeks. He said Afghanistan’s public health ministry was working on ways to detect this variant. Click
Tolo News: The Afghan Minister of Public Health Ahmad Jawad Osmani on Thursday said that President Ashraf Ghani has asked him to step down from his post. “Yesterday the honorable president asked me to resign from my post, but I reasoned with him that there are no legal obstacles in my way to continue my
1TV: Fuel tanks of motorcycles with two people on them will be filled with sugar or their catalytic converters will be filled with pellets for their engines to get disabled, officials warned on Wednesday. First Vice President Amrullah Saleh, who is in-charge of Kabul security, said that videos captured by security cameras show that most
Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News December 30, 2020 ISLAMABAD – An Afghan air force pilot was gunned down Wednesday in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar. Police confirmed to VOA the killing of a member of the military but did not share any other details. A security source, who did not want to be named, said
Tolo News: Minaret of Jam in Ghor province has been listed among cultural heritage sites of the Islamic world by the The Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, referred to as (ICESCO). The Minaret of Jam’s isolated location may have prevented the monument from intentional destruction for nearly 900 years. The minaret is believed