Tolo News: Farzad Mansoori, a member of the National Taekwondo Team, won a silver medal in the 2019 Belt and Road China Open International Taekwondo Championships, which started on November 7. He competed in the 68 kg weight category. Mansoori defeated a Chinese rival in his first match and a Nepalese in the second. Click here
Stars and Stripes (US): The U.S. Air Force’s newest aerial gunships are in high demand in the skies of Afghanistan, where they provide close-air support and armed overwatch to U.S. and Afghan operations. The new aircraft’s missions are part of an increase in the pace of the air war following the collapse of peace talks between
Tolo News: Second Vice President Mohammad Sarwar Danish on Friday said that the Afghan government is ready to release the Taliban prisoners “within the framework of the prevailing laws of the country” in order to help promote confidence-building measures and create conditions for peace negotiation talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban. Danish said that
Ariana: The preliminary result of Afghan presidential election will not be announced on November 14, an official at Independent Election Commission (IEC) said on Friday. “Vote recounting has not started and our employees could not travel to provinces yet, therefore it is not possible to announce the preliminary results on preset date of November 14,” IEC
Reuters: The first female founder of an Afghan political party has urged the country to rethink the use of facial recognition technology in elections amid concerns it stopped large numbers of women from voting this year. Authorities photographed all voters in September’s presidential election and used facial recognition software, a measure designed to combat fraud that
Ariana: Pakistan prefers a weak government in Kabul and has played an active, and by many accounts, a negative role in Afghan affairs for decades, a U.S. Congressional report has said. In its latest report on Afghanistan, the independent and bipartisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) identified Pakistan, the most important neighbor of Afghanistan. However, it said,
1TV: Afghanistan has been ranked as the least safe country in the world in 2018, according to a new global poll. The annual survey by Gallup asked if people felt safe walking at night and whether they had been victims of crime. Singapore, Tajikistan and the United Arab Emirates scored highest, respectively for law and order. Singapore,
1TV: “We have recorded a surge in activity of ISIS units in Afghanistan, united in the so-called Wilayah Khorasan,” Alexander Bortnikov said at the Council of the Heads of Security Agencies and Intelligence Services of the Central Asian states. Due to their looming defeat in Syria and Iraq, international terrorist organizations are hastily withdrawing their remaining forces