Новости за 30.03.2016

A Saudi billionaire dubbed as ‘Saudi playboy’ has taken London by storm with his incredible lifestyle including the fleet of golden cars. A UK-based tabloid has featured the luxurious lifestyle of the billionaire in a report which has been released after the super-rich Saudi has caused quite a stir in west London in recent days. Read the full article...

A multi-million dollars plane purchased by the United States to fly counter-narcotics missions in Afghanistan is still grounded despite seven years have passed since it’s purchase, it has been reported. The $86 million plane was purchased by US for the Drug Enforcement Administration but the plane will likely have no missions in Asia. According to Read the full article...

The acting Minister of Defense Masoom Stanikzai has said that the foreign insurgents disguised as the Taliban militants are fighting the Afghan forces. In his trip to the southern provinces, Stanikzai stopped in the restive Helmand province to review the security situation of this province. He said the ongoing violence in Afghanistan is not having Read the full article...

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has claimed that several men have been prosecuted in Tunisia for consensual same-sex intercourse and force. According to a report by the Human Rights Watch (HRW), some of the men have even been forced to undergo anal examinations. The report further added that the apartment of six students was raided Read the full article...

Two children have lost lives in a roadside bomb blast in the capital of Zabul province of Afghanistan. Officials say the bomb went off on a vehicle of a private school in the provincial capital Qalat around 01:30 PM this afternoon. The vehicle caught fire following the blast which severely burned the driver who was Read the full article...

As the A-29 Super Tucano light attack aircraft are expected to start combat operations with the Afghan armed forces, the Afghan National Army and Afghan Air Force coordinated a live-fire training near Kabul recently. According to the 438th Air Expeditionary Wing of the US Air Forces Central Command, the Afghan Tactical Air Controllers called-in an Read the full article...

A join initiative has been launched with an aim to protect and increase the population of ibex in the outskirts of capital Kabul. According to reports, Kabul’s Khak-e-Jabar district was once home to a large population of ibex but the number has significantly decreased due to hunting of the species by local residents. However, a Read the full article...

At least 25,000 posts are still lying in the Afghan government institutions as the Afghan youth including the university graduates are concerned regarding the growing unemployment in the country. According to the officials in the Independent Administrative Reform & Civil Service Commission, the majority of the vacant posts are in the Ministry of Education which Read the full article...

The Taliban militants and Afghan policemen suffered casualties during a clash in northern Balkh province of Afghanistan, local officials. The incident took place in Charbolak district after a group of Taliban militants launched coordinated attack on the security posts. Provincial police chief Abdul Razaq Qaderi the gun battle continued until later this afternoon before the Read the full article...

A diplomatic quarter has been planned for foreign missions in Jalalabad city, capital of eastern Nangarhar province. Hifzullah Ishaqzai, head of the foreign affairs of Nangarhar said on Wednesday that efforts have been made to implement the project. While talking to a gathering organized to celebrate 100 years of the friendship between Kabul and Germany, Read the full article...

At least eight Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers lost their lives in the latest counter-terrorism operations across the country, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) announced Wednesday. A statement by MoD said the soldiers lost their lives as they were conducting clearance operations in at least two restive provinces in the past 24 hours. “The Afghan Read the full article...

A Pakistani media organization reports that the arrested agent of the Indian intelligence Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) was operating out of Afghanistan. Jang which is a reliable and the oldest newspaper in Pakistan with its publication since 1939 citing intelligence sources says that Kul Bushan Yadav was employed at the Indian consulate in Kandahar province Read the full article...

By Mark Bowden Just over a year ago Kabul and all of us who work here for a better Afghanistan were in shock. A young woman had been brutally beaten to death on the streets of the country’s capital city. Mob justice had ripped through a crowd to kill an innocent woman: Farkhunda. Initial reactions Read the full article...

The Taliban militants group in Afghanistan claimed a US Air Force F-16 fighter jet was downed by the group’s fighters near Bagram Air Field, a claim the group usually makes for such incidents. A statement by the Taliban group said the aircraft came under fire and crashed in Bagram, leaving the jet destroyed and it’s Read the full article...

At least 15 anti-government armed militants were killed and 16 others were wounded in the latest clearance operations conducted by the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) in the past 24 hours. The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the militants were killed in the western Herat province and southeastern Ghazni province. At least 12 of the Read the full article...

A prominent Taliban commander and member of the group’s leadership council ‘Rahbari Shura’ Mullah Abdul Qayoum Zakir has ended rifts with Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor. An online statement published by Taliban on Wednesday states that Mullah Zakir pledges allegiance to the new leader. The statement dated today carries Mullah Abdul Qayoum Zakir’s name at the Read the full article...

A senior Taliban group member who was previously serving as the group’s webmaster has been killed as tensions intensify among the rival Taliban groups. According to the local government officials in Kandahar, the ex-webmaster of the Taliban, Bashir Ahmad Rayan was killed almost two months after he was kidnapped. Provincial police chief Gen. Abdul Razaq Read the full article...

The Afghanistan national football team has qualified to the next level of the 2019 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) qualifier by securing a victory in their last match against Singapore. According to the Afghanistan Football Federation (AFF), the qualification for the 2019 AFC Asian Cup qualifying stage was secured by the victories the Afghan achieved during Read the full article...

Infighting has once again erupted between Taliban and loyalists of the Islamic State (IS) or Daesh in Achin district of eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Wednesday. Colonel Hazrat Hussain Mashriqiwal said the clash broke out in Karkani area late Tuesday leaving nine fighters of Daesh and five Taliban killed. Those killed include Mir Read the full article...

Roshan, Afghanistan’s leading communications provider, opened today a brand new computer classroom at the Alawuddin Girls Orphanage in Kabul. The classroom has been fully furnished and equipped by Roshan with 16 computers. The opening was commemorated at a ceremony with Afghanistan’s Director General of orphanages and other government officials. “Roshan’s mission is to be more Read the full article...

President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has said that government is ready to launch infrastructure projects in the country. In a meeting with representatives of Paktia, Paktika, Khost, Ghazni, Logar provinces and nomads at Presidential Palace, President Ghani said that funds have been arranged to start the construction of 29 dams this year. He added that last Read the full article...

An Afghan Air Force (AAF) helicopter has reportedly made emergency landing in the eastern Kunar province of Afghanistan. The incident has taken place in Nari district while it was providing logistics support to the Afghan national security forces. Provincial governor Wahidullah Kalimzai said he is aware of an incident involving the emergency landing of the Read the full article...