By Ayaz Gul VOA News | May 12, 2020 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN – Officials in Afghanistan say a suicide bombing of a funeral in an eastern province and a militant raid on a hospital in the capital, Kabul, have killed around 40 people and injured scores of others. The Taliban insurgency quickly denied its involvement in
ESPN cricinfo: In the absence of any cricket due to Covid-19 and all available sources of funding drying up fast, the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) has decided to cut the salaries of the coaching staff by 25% in May. That number could jump to 50% in June if their tour to Zimbabwe in June is
Tolo News: Wahid Majroh, deputy minister of public health, announced on Monday that in the past 24 hours 285 positive cases of COVID-19 had been reported in Afghanistan, bringing the total to 4,687. So far 122 people are known to have died of the coronavirus in the country. Kabul is still one of the worst
By Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News | May 11, 2020 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN – At least six members of Afghan National Army were killed, and five others wounded in a Taliban attack in Laghman province in eastern Afghanistan Sunday night, according to Afghan ministry of defense. However, a government source who did not want to be named said
Amin Alemi Press TV May 10, 2020 According to the annual report of the US Defence Department, the US military has killed 108 Afghans and wounded another 75 civilians during its military operations in 2019. The tally has changed little since the previous year’s report, but civilian deaths in Afghanistan again eclipsed those in Syria
Tolo News: Taliban’s relations with other terrorist groups “continue to be close and mutually beneficial which is against the spirit of the peace agreement the group had signed with the United States,” said the head of the National Directorate of Security (NDS), Afghanistan’s intelligence agency. “The Taliban’s leadership is still thinking of a comeback to
Tolo News: Wahid Majroh, health deputy minister, announced on Sunday that in the past 24 hours 361 positive cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Afghanistan, bringing the total to 4402. The death toll from COVID-19 in Afghanistan now has reached 120, and 558 patients have recovered so far. Click here to read more (external
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 10, 2020 Afghan cricketer Shafiquallah Shafaq has been banned from the sport for six years after acknowledging charges of match fixing. The 30-year-old was charged with fixing or attempting to fix matches in the Afghanistan Premier League T20 in 2018 and the 2019 Bangladesh Premier League, the Afghanistan Cricket