Tolo News: Afghanistan’s U-20 (under 20) national football team on Wednesday left Kabul for Dushanbe, Tajikistan, for the CAFA Junior Championship, an international football competition in Central Asia. Afghans will face Uzbekistan in their first match of the competition on Friday. The tournament started in Dushanbe on June 9 and will end on June 18.
Mustafa Sarwar Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty June 9, 2021 For most of this year, the media coverage of Afghanistan has focused on the ongoing withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops and the implications for the war-torn country’s future. But as U.S. troops and their allies head for the exit after nearly 20 years of conflict,
Radio Free Afghanistan June 9, 2021 A group of 42 rejected asylum seekers have reportedly arrived in Kabul after being deported from Germany. The chartered flight landed in the Afghan capital at 7:48 a.m. local time on June 9, the German news agency dpa quoted an airport official as saying. The agency reported that the
1TV: The outreach is largely being led by Indian security officials and has been limited to Taliban factions and leaders that are perceived as being “nationalist” or outside the sphere of influence of Pakistan and Iran, Indian newspaper Hindustan Times reported . The outreach has been underway for some months, though it continues to be
Tolo News: The Afghan Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) on Wednesday said that the COVID-19 pandemic will hit its peak in the country in the next 4 weeks—adding that the people’s failure to respect health guidelines has been a key factor behind the rising number of positive cases of the coronavirus. Click here to read
Ayaz Gul VOA News June 9, 2021 ISLAMABAD – Officials in Afghanistan said Wednesday that gunmen assaulted the office of an international charity clearing land mines in the country, killing at least 10 people and injuring more than a dozen others. The overnight deadly attack on Britain-based HALO Trust’s camp occurred in the embattled northern Baghlan province, the scene
By Radio Free Afghanistan June 8, 2021 The Taliban has captured another district center in Afghanistan, adding to the insurgent group’s recent military gains since the start of the withdrawal of international troops from the war-torn country. Government forces abandoned the center of the Dawlat Abad district in the northern province of Faryab and retreated to
Ayaz Gul VOA News June 8, 2021 ISLAMABAD – Pakistan has formally conveyed to the United States that Islamabad will not provide military bases to Washington for counterterrorism operations in Afghanistan after all international troops exit the war-torn country, and the U.S. side has stopped raising the issue, senior Pakistani officials said. Several top Pakistani
1TV: The United States is planning to keep its embassy in Kabul open after US troops depart, but not if future Afghan government doesn’t want it, a top US general said on Monday. “The protection of any diplomatic mission in any country is first and foremost the responsibility of the host nation,” Gen. Kenneth McKenzie,