Press TV December 18, 2019 Security chiefs of Iran and Russia have warned about the deliberate relocation of remnants of the Daesh Takfiri terror group from their former Middle East bastions to Afghanistan. Ali Shamkhani, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, and Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of the Russian Federation Security Council, made the remarks
1TV: Three Afghan electoral teams on Wednesday jointly urged the Attorney General’s Office to prosecute election commissioner Mohammad Hanif Danishyar for allegedly faking age. In a letter to AGO, the campaigns of Abdullah Abdullah, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and Rahmatullah Nabil said that Danisyar did not complete the minimum age of 35 required for the post, adding
Tolo News: US peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad is in Kabul to meet Afghan leaders about peace talks, said Mujiburahman Rahimi, a spokesman for the Chief Executive Office, on Wednesday. Khalilzad met with President Ghani at the Presidential Palace and briefed the president about the US-Taliban talks in Doha and the recent Islamabad meeting, said Sediq Sediqqi,
Tolo News: Gen. Khoshal Sadat, the deputy interior minister, ordered the arrest of former local forces commander Nizamuddin Qaisari in the northern province of Balkh and deployed 60 members of the police special unit from Kabul, Balkh Police Chief Gen. Ajmal Fayez said. The police chief said they are not regretting conducting the operation – which
Press TV December 17, 2019 Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani voices alarm at the spread of terrorism and insecurity in Afghanistan as the main threats facing the war-torn country’s peace and stability. Shamkhani made the remarks in a Tuesday meeting with Chinese Minister of State Security Chen Wenqing on the
Ayaz Gul VOA News December 17, 2019 ISLAMABAD – Two separate bomb explosions in Afghanistan Tuesday killed at least 10 civilians, including children, and injured 18 others. The violence comes as a new United Nations report says that even by Afghanistan’s grim standards, 2019 has been particularly deadly for children and described the country as
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan: Afghans have been returning to their ruined homes in Nangarhar Province after officials claimed they had cleared it of remaining Islamic State fighters and showed captured militants to the media. RFE/RL met one family who returned to find their house destroyed, their crops stolen, and the land around them mined.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 17, 2019 U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper on December 15 said he wants a drawdown of soldiers in Afghanistan “with or without” a peace deal, while voicing confidence that the head of the NATO mission in the country could carry out current tasks with fewer numbers. The administration of President
Michael Hughes: The Washington Post’s Afghanistan Papers was met with deafening silence because most astute observers already knew the U.S. military had painted a false picture of the war, not to mention the fact the document dump was released to an indifferent American public. That said, the documents still shine a bright light on the incompetence and