Новости за 03.02.2016

Two bombs exploded a few hours apart from each other in Nangarhar and Khost province on Wednesday. The first one which was a landmine exploded on a Ford Ranger vehicle leaving two people wounded in Behsood District of Nangarhar province. Ataullah Khogyani, spokesperson for the governor of Nangarhar province said the Ford Ranger was on its Read the full article...

Leading a high level delegation, President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has arrived in Kandahar province for assessing security and development. Tight security measures have been taken in Kandahar city where the President landed on Wednesday morning. President Ghani is accompanied by some cabinet ministers and other high ranking officials from Kabul. A joint gathering of local Read the full article...

The National Security Advisor (NSA) Mohammad Hanif Atmar left Kabul for a two-day state visit to Turkey this morning. On Thursday and Friday, Atmar would hold meetings with his Turkish counterpart, the country’s Interior Minister, Director of National Intelligence and acting Minister of Foreign Affairs. Both sides would discuss a vast range of topics including Read the full article...

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Abdullah Abdullah has proposed a regional action plan to combat with terrorism. While talking to the Counter-Terrorism Conference in Jaipur, capital of the Indian state of Rajasthan on Tuesday, CEO Abdullah said that terrorism poses grave danger to the regional stability and international peace. “We are effectively facing a regional Read the full article...

A Qatari prince has pledged $140 million comprised of non-refundable aid and capital for joint investment in key housing sectors in Afghanistan. Two Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) were signed between the Qatari prince Sheikh Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani, head of the Al-Gharafa Non-governmental Organization, and the Minister of Urban Development Affairs of Afghanistan Syed Read the full article...

A drone strike has killed three fighters of the terrorist group of the Islamic State (IS) which is locally known by its Arabic name ‘Daesh’ in eastern Nangarhar province. Colonel Hazrat Hussain Mashriqiwal, spokesperson for the police headquarters of Nangarhar province said the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) attack was conducted in Bandar area of Achin Read the full article...

The dead bodies of 18 fighters of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) who were killed in drone strikes in Afghanistan have been returned and buried inside Pakistan. Reports suggest that the dead bodies were buried in villages located near the Afghan border. 14 of them reportedly belonged to Mehsud tribe and four others to Ahmadzai Wazir tribe. Read the full article...