Новости за 09.01.2016

The Afghan Public Health Minister Ferozuddin Feroz has narrowly escaped a possible HIV infection after he was attacked with a syringe by a drug addict, the officials said Sunday. There are growing fears of rapid HIV infection spread among the drug addicts in the country as syringes are mostly used by the addicts to inject Read the full article...

A senior Taliban leader has been killed along with several other militants in northeastern Takhar province of Afghanistan as the Afghan national security forces intensify operations to retake control of Darqad district. The Ministry of Interior (MoI) said at least 17 Taliban militants have been killed so far as several parts of Darqad has been Read the full article...

At least 43 Taliban militants were killed and 15 others were injured during military operations by Afghan national security forces in the past 24 hours. The operations were jointly conducted by Afghan national police, Afghan national army and Afghan intelligence – National Directorate of Security (NDS) operatives. Interior ministry following a statement said Saturday that Read the full article...

The preparatory or quadrilateral meeting of Afghanistan, Pakistan, the United States and China for talks with Taliban would be held  in Islamabad on Monday. Afghanistan would be represented by Deputy Foreign Minister Hekmat Khalil Karzai and Pakistan by Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry. The U.S. and China would be reportedly represented by their special representatives for Afghanistan and Read the full article...

President Mohammad AShraf Ghani extended the term of the appointed members of the Afghan Senate – Upper House of the Parliament (Meshrano Jirga), the Presidential Palace said Saturday. A statement by ARG Palace said the decision was taken following a meeting with the members of the Afghan Senate House on Friday. The statement further added Read the full article...

The Afghan intelligence operatives conducted around 2,200 counter-terrorism raids across the country in 2015 and thwarted major terrorist attack plots by the anti-government armed militant groups. The acting Afghan Intelligence – National Directorate of Security (NDS) Chief Masoud Andarabi told reporters during the general session of the parliament that the Afghan intelligence operatives eliminated at Read the full article...

The U.S. Army will deploy about 500 soldiers to Afghanistan for an assignment of up to nine months who will also serve as advisors to Afghan national security forces. According to information released by the Army on Friday, the soldiers will be deployed later this winter to join the 10th Mountain Division at Bagram Airfield Read the full article...

An Earthquake measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale jolted the town of Bairam in Fars province, Southern Iran, on Saturday morning, reports Iran’s government-funded Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA). The Seismological center of Fars province affiliated to the Geophysics Institute of Tehran University registered the quake at 00:14 hours local time. The epicenter of the Read the full article...

The Afghan Air Force will receive the fourth and final Mi-25 gunship helicopter from India within the next three weeks, acting defense minister Masoom Stanikzai said Saturday. Briefing the Afghan lawmakers in the Lower House of the Parliament – Wolesi Jirga, Stanikzai said the Ministry of Defense is working on a long term plan for Read the full article...

Friday was one of the deadliest days for Daesh and Taliban in eastern Nangarhar province. Earlier reports suggested that dozens of militants were killed in airstrikes but an official says that 16 others were killed in internal clashes of the insurgent groups. Spokesperson for the police headquarters of Nangarhar said the clashes erupted in Dago, Read the full article...

Pakistan has issued a security alert of possible suicide attacks in one of its seven tribal agencies along the Afghanistan border. According to Pakistan’s The Express Tribune news, intelligence agencies reportedly alerted the political administration of Jamrud tehsil that 13 suicide bombers from a banned militant organisation have entered there. The Frontier Corps has started Read the full article...

At least 23 fanatics of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed in separate airstrikes by the Afghan Air Force (AAF) in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said Saturday. A statement by MoD said the fanatics of the terror group were killed in Achin and Kot Read the full article...

Two Afghans have been arrested and security agencies are looking for a third one who allegedly tried to rape a woman in Paris after finding her alone. A French media outlet reports that a 28-year-old woman was traveling on the Paris RER express train on 9 December when three Afghan refugees tried to rape her. According Read the full article...

At least 19 fanatics of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed in an airstrike in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan on Friday afternoon. The drone strike targeted the ISIS fanatics shortly after they decapitated seven people including six Taliban insurgents in the restive Achin district. A local government official Read the full article...