VOA News September 19, 2016 NEW YORK — Authorities in New York are searching for a 28-year-old man in connection with the bomb that exploded Saturday night in Manhattan. An FBI statement says Ahmad Khan Rahami, a U.S. citizen of Afghan decent, is wanted for questioning. It says his last known address was in Elizabeth, New
KABUL, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) — A fire broke out in a construction wood market in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, on Sunday, leaving no casualties. “At around 11:00 a.m. (local time), a construction wood market named Bradaran Market caught fire in second police district in Kabul. The Kabul police and firefighters arrived at the site shortly
RT: Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump has blasted the state of US inner cities saying Americans would be safer walking through “war-torn countries” like Afghanistan than “being in the middle of some of our inner cities.” Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: Members of the Ahmad Shah Massoud Foundation on Monday called on its supporters to remain considerate to the people and not fire off weapons on Massoud Day, on Thursday. For the past 15 years, September 8 is celebrated around the country as Massoud Day and is a public holiday. Click here to read more (external
1TV: Former President Hamid Karzai blessed with a baby girl, his fourth child was born on Tuesday morning in private Gurgaon hospital in India. “The baby girl was born around 9.30 am on Tuesday. Both the mother and her baby daughter are doing quite well,” Afghan ambassador to India, Shaida Mohammad Abdali saidas quoted by Times of
KABUL, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) — Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on Saturday left for Uzbekistan to take part in the funeral of late Uzbek President Islam Karimov, the country’s Presidential Palace said. Ghani left Kabul for Samarkand, Uzbekistan to attend the funeral, the palace said in a statement. Karimov died Friday of a stroke at
Press TV August 16, 2016 The Pentagon says that 15 Guantanamo Bay detainees have been transferred to the United Arab Emirates, the largest transfer under the Obama administration. A US Department of State official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Monday that 12 of the men are Yeminis and the other three are Afghans.
Khaama Press: At least four people have been arrested for the alleged sale of donkey meat in northern Balkh province of Afghanistan. Provincial police spokesman Sher Jan Durani has said the four men were arrested on Wednesday afternoon in Sholgara district of Balkh. Click here to read more (external link).
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 20, 2016 German media have reported that the 17-year-old asylum seeker who was shot dead by police after attacking passengers with an ax and knife on a train in southern Germany was not Afghan but in fact Pakistani. German state broadcaster ZDF said on July 20 that documents found in
KABUL, July 16 (Xinhua) — Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has expressed concerns over coup attempt in Turkey, believing that military regimes often block the way for development. “Since the government and people of Afghanistan have bitter experiences of coup and military regimes, believe that coup and military regimes are obstacles on the ways toward