Afghanistan

KABUL (Web Desk) At least seven people were killed Monday when a suicide bomber detonated near a gathering of top clerics in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, shortly after the group called such attacks a sin, police said.Our initial information shows that the suicide attack took place when guests were exiting the …

KABUL (Web Desk) Disfigured by four decades of war, the Afghan capital Kabul offers few reminders of its former glory in Islamic art or religious tolerance but a rare exhibition of Mughal paintings is seeking to change that.Dozens of enlarged reproductions of miniatures – highly detailed paintings the size of …

KABUL (Web Desk) A Russian pilot who was missing presumed dead after his plane was shot down three decades ago during the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan has been found alive and wants to come home, Russian military veterans said Friday.He is still alive. It´s very astonishing. Now he needs help,” the …

KABUL (Web Desk) More than half of the world’s children are threatened by conflict, poverty or sexual discrimination, Save the Children said in a report published on Wednesday.Entitled “Many Faces of Exclusion”, the study ranked 175 countries in terms of the threat of child labour, exclusion from education, child marriage …

KABUL (Web Desk) In its annual 2017 Report on International Religious Freedom, the US Department of State said that in recent years, a series of deadly attacks were conducted on the Shia Muslim community in Afghanistan.The report says that the majority of attacks were carried out by Daesh.Meanwhile, Afghan government …

KABUL (Web Desk) Afghan forces mistakenly killed nine people, most of them civilians, during raid on a house in eastern Nangarhar province which has been a base for the militant Islamic State (IS) group and other militants, officials said Tuesday.The raid, which took place late on Monday night in Chaparhar …

KANDAHAR (Web Desk) At least 16 people were killed and 38 wounded Tuesday when a minivan packed with explosives exploded as members of the security forces were trying to defuse it in southern Afghanistan, officials said.Police and intelligence officers in the city of Kandahar had already cleared the area around …

FARAH (Web Desk) Taliban fighters closed in on another district in Afghanistan on Sunday as officials sought to reassure an increasingly angry public that security would improve.On Sunday, the insurgents were besieging the governor’s compound in Ajrestan district in Ghazni, south of the capital Kabul, although officials said reinforcements had …

Kabul (Web Desk) Eight people were killed and 45 wounded in a series of explosions targeting a cricket match in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, officials said Saturday, the first attack since the holy month of Ramadan began. The blasts exploded among spectators crowded into the stadium at around …

JALALABAD (Web Desk) Eight people were killed and 45 wounded in a series of explosions targeting a cricket match in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, officials said Saturday, the first attack since the holy month of Ramazan began.The blasts exploded among spectators crowded into the stadium at around 11pm …