Politico: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday previewed imminent action by the Trump administration aimed at countering the International Criminal Court’s investigation of alleged war crimes committed by U.S. personnel in Afghanistan. In an interview on the “What the Hell Is Going On?” podcast, produced by the conservative-leaning American Enterprise Institute think tank, Pomepo
VOA News June 1, 2020 COVID-19 infections in Afghanistan rose by 684% in May, the International Rescue Committee said in a statement Monday. “The country’s extremely low testing capacity means many more are going untested and undetected,” according to the Committee. Millions of Afghans were already facing food insecurity after decades of conflict and now
1TV: Relations between the Taliban, especially the Haqqani Network, and Al-Qaida remain close despite the former signing a peace deal with the United States, a recent UN report said. Al-Qaida has 400 to 600 operatives active in 12 Afghan provinces and is running training camps in the east of the country, according to the report.
Tolo News: On Sunday, the Ministry of Public Health reported 680 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 1,112 samples tested in the last 24 hours. The total number of known deaths is 257 and recovered cases is 1,328. Click here to read more (external link). Related Concerns over Coronavirus rapid outbreak in Afghanistan Breakdown
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 31, 2020 By Frud Bezhan After 18 years of fighting, the Afghan war is at a deadly stalemate. Afghanistan is divided up among government forces backed by international troops, the Taliban and its militant allies, the Islamic State (IS) extremist group, and a collection of smaller foreign terrorist groups. The United
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 31, 2020 The Afghan government and the Taliban have released more captives as part of a major prisoner swap ahead of formal peace talks aimed at ending the 18-year war. The prisoner exchange is part of a U.S.-Taliban agreement signed in February that called on the Afghan government to release
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 31, 2020 The Islamic State (IS) extremist group has claimed responsibility for a bomb blast that killed an Afghan journalist and a technician in a minibus carrying employees of a local television station. At least seven people were wounded in in the capital, Kabul, in the evening rush-hour attack on
Ayaz Gul VOA News May 30, 2020 ISLAMABAD – Afghan officials said Saturday a bomb exploded and killed a journalist and a driver of a private television channel in the capital, Kabul. Six other people were injured. The victims, employees of Khurshid TV, were traveling on a minibus when an improvised explosive device attached to