Tolo News: “Billions of dollars” worth equipment at an abandoned US base in Paktika province in the east of Afghanistan have been “stolen” by local officials and some lawmakers after the camp was handed to Afghan forces in 2014, the provincial governor Mujib Rahman Samkanai claimed. “They entered the PRT base and looted it. Based on
Ariana: Gen. Scott Miller, the Commander of U.S. and NATO Forces in Afghanistan has walked out of a security meeting in Kabul in protest to the presence of Afghan National Security Advisor Hamdullah Mohib. Recently, U.S. cut all ties with Mohib over controversial remarks he made on a visit to the United State last month. Mohib claimed
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 1, 2019 The U.S. envoy seeking a peace deal with the Taliban to end nearly 18 years of war in Afghanistan has returned to Kabul ahead of a new round of talks. Fereydoun Khuzon, deputy spokesman for the Afghan presidential administration, told RFE/RL on April 1 that he expects the visit of
Tolo News: Based on the study, 32 percent of six-member families had only one working person. The study shows that 48 percent of families have no educated woman. The level of multidimensional poverty, according to the study, ranges from a low of 12 percent in Kabul to a high of 81 percent in Badghis province in
Ayaz Gul VOA News March 31, 2019 ISLAMABAD — A day after Afghanistan’s First Vice President, General Abdul Rashid Dostum, narrowly survived an assassination attempt, the Taliban vowed Sunday the former warlord remains one of their prime targets. Officials in Afghanistan have confirmed Dostum’s convoy came under a Taliban attack Saturday evening in the northern Balkh
The New York Times: The longtime motto of the American-led mission in Afghanistan that it stands “shona ba shona,” or shoulder to shoulder, with its Afghan ally no longer applies to that ally’s national security adviser. American officials in Afghanistan have repeatedly walked out of or refused to attend meetings with the Afghan president’s most senior
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 30, 2019 U.S. actress Angelina Jolie, who is an activist for refugee-related causes, has urged in a speech at the United Nations that women be represented in the peace process aimed at ending the long conflict in Afghanistan. “In Afghanistan thousands of women have recently come together in public risking
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan March 30, 2019 Afghanistan’s controversial Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum has escaped unhurt from a suspected Taliban attack that killed one of his bodyguards, police said. A regional police spokesman said attackers ambushed Dostum’s convoy on March 30 on the way from Mazar-e Sharif, a city in Balkh Province, to