Tolo News: The US and the Taliban negotiators have made progress on establishing safe zones once the American forces started leaving Afghanistan, sources familiar with the ninth round of the talks in Doha said. The sources said that based on the safe zone strategy, there will be ceasefire announced in every province from where US forces
VOA News August 26, 2019 Akbar Ayazi, the director of VOA’s South and Central Asia Division, passed away Sunday after a prolonged battle with lung cancer, complicated by pneumonia. He was 65. Friends and colleagues expressed a deep sense of loss at the death of Ayazi, who since 2015 was responsible for the operations of
Tolo News: Figures by the Independent Election Commission (IEC) indicate that almost 2,000 polling centers will remain closed on the election day due to security threats but more than 5,000 polling centers will be remain opened countrywide. The IEC had considered 7,385 centers for the election day but only 5,373 centers will remain open, the IEC statistics show.
1TV: “If we left tomorrow, the Taliban cannot be trusted to take care of ISIS and Al Qaeda,” Graham said in an interview with Fox News. “They don’t have the capability. So when you ask our intelligence community…what would happen to America if we withdrew all of our forces. They tell us without any hesitation
The Washington Post: In 2016 the Defense Department began paying a Kabul-based tech company millions of dollars to create a new payroll system for the Afghan government, part of an ambitious effort to prevent fraud by tracking the flow of funds down to individual soldiers and police officers. But in visits to Afghanistan last year,
Tolo News: At least six people were killed, 12 others were wounded in a traffic accident in Kandahar highway on Saturday morning, local officials said. The incident happened in Maiwand district, the deputy head of provincial Traffic Department, Sardar Mohammad Naseri, said. Click here to read more (external link).
Bruce Pannier Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 24, 2019 Fostering peace is a complicated process, and Uzbekistan just received a strong hint that best intentions can be interpreted as unwanted actions. Tashkent is trying to help promote peace in Afghanistan. Other parties are too, but the outcome of events in Afghanistan has a direct bearing