Tolo News: Abbas Mousavi, the spokesman for Iran’s foreign minister, in a press conference on Monday said that the ministry has warned Ghafoor Lewal, the Afghan ambassador in Tehran, about the recent protest near the Iranian embassy in Kabul over the deaths of Afghan migrants in Iran. The protesters called on international organizations to probe
Tolo News: The Ministry of Public Health on Tuesday reported 793 new positive cases of the coronavirus from 1,640 samples tested in the last 24 hours. The ministry also reported 13 new deaths from COVID-19 and 381 recoveries. With this, the total cases are now 26,310, the total reported deaths are 491, and total recoveries
By Margaret Besheer VOA News | June 15, 2020 NEW YORK – The United Nations said Monday that for the fifth consecutive year, Afghanistan was the deadliest country on the planet for children. In its annual Children in Armed Conflict report, the U.N. secretary-general reported that more than 3,000 Afghan children were killed in 2019, and
Tolo News: At least 20 Afghan media outlets and media-supporting organizations in an open letter to President Ashraf Ghani raised their concerns about the possibility of restrictions on media outlets and on the freedom of speech, as the government has suggested amendments to the mass media law that was enacted in 2006. The letter says
Ariana: The Afghanistan Civil Aviation Authority has said that the international flights will resume soon keeping health measures strictly in view. In a statement, the authority said that in order to prevent the outbreak of the Coronavirus, the terminal halls in Kabul, Herat, Kandahar, and Mazar-e-Sharif international airports have been marked to help passengers keep
Tolo News: The Ministry of Public Health on Monday reported 761 new positive cases of the coronavirus out of 1,551 samples tested in the last 24 hours, bringing the total accumulated cases to 25,527. The ministry also reported seven new deaths from COVID-19 and 365 recovered cases in the last 24 hours. Click here to
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan June 15, 2020 KABUL — Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has announced that it has decided to cease activities at the Dasht-e-Barchi hospital in Kabul, following a deadly attack at the facility’s maternity wing last month, saying that similar “horrific” attacks may occur there in the future. In a statement on June 15, the
Ayaz Gul VOA News June 14, 2020 ISLAMABAD – Afghanistan’s warring sides have agreed to open long-awaited peace talks in Qatar, possibly later this month, to negotiate a sustainable cease-fire and political settlement to years of conflict in Afghanistan. A spokesman for the Taliban insurgency on Sunday confirmed to VOA the breakthrough development but did