Tolo News: The Ministry of Public Health Sunday reported 114 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 1,402 samples tested in the last 24 hours. The ministry reported that the cumulative total of known COVID-19 cases is 63,598, the total number of reported deaths is 2,745, and the total number of recoveries is 54,686. Click
Michael Hughes AOPNEWS May 15, 2021 Tehran and Kabul reached a preliminary agreement that would see $5.3 billion invested in developing Afghanistan’s infrastructure, an Iranian Roads and Urban Development Ministry (MRUD) official said, as the two countries look to strengthen relations in the wake of the U.S. military withdrawal. Around $2.2 billion of the funding
Tolo News: The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said Saturday that at least 40 people were killed and wounded in separate Taliban attacks in nearly 10 provinces despite a previous commitment by the group to halt fighting during the three days of Eid ceasefire. “Mullah Hibatullah (Taliban’s supreme leader) has no authority on all factions of
By Radio Free Afghanistan May 15, 2021 Abdul Manan Niazi, deputy head of a breakaway Taliban faction in Afghanistan, has died in a Kabul hospital of wounds sustained in a shooting earlier this week by unknown gunmen in Herat Province. Niazi’s death early in the morning of May 15 was confirmed by a family member and
Tolo News: The Ministry of Public Health Saturday reported 65 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 495 samples tested in the last 24 hours. The ministry reported that the cumulative total of known COVID-19 cases is 63,484, the total number of reported deaths is 2,742, and the total number of recoveries is 54,663. Click
By Radio Free Afghanistan May 14, 2021 Afghan officials say a blast at a mosque in a northern Kabul neighborhood killed at least 12 worshippers on the second day of a cease-fire declared by the government and the Taliban. Fifteen other people were wounded when a bomb exploded inside the mosque during Friday Prayers on May
Tolo News: The Ministry of Public Health Friday reported 70 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 566 samples tested in the last 24 hours. The ministry reported that the cumulative total of known COVID-19 cases is 63,419, the total number of reported deaths is 2,736, and the total number of recoveries is 54,634. Click
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: If the photos didn’t exist, it might be hard to believe what took place inside the U.S. White House in the summer of 1921. News pictures from the presidential lawn capture the immediate aftermath of a meeting between an Afghan “princess” and President Warren G. Harding. Prominent in the photos is