Новости за 20.01.2018

A group of insurgents have launched a coordinated attack on Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul city as the security officials are saying that efforts are underway to eliminate the assailants. The ministry of interior spokesman Najib Danish confirmed that an unknown number of insurgents have stormed the hotel and have taken position inside the hotel compound. Read the full article...

President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has said special arrangements are being considered to boost the capabilities of the Afghan Air Force. He made the remarks during his visit to a military base of the Afghan armed forces in Kabul where he said the government is working to further boost the fighting the capabilities of the Afghan Read the full article...

The Minister of Interior of Pakistan Ahsan Iqbal has also said that the return of Afghan refugees is prerequisite to deny safe havens to the Afghan militants. Iqbal told reporters that around three million refugees still reside in Pakistan emphasizing that no one should expect that the country would be able to certify those involved Read the full article...

The Taliban insurgents have executed one of their former commanders on charges of having links with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) loyalists in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan. The police commandment of Nangarhar in a statement said Saturday that the former Taliban commander was killed in Dur Baba district on Friday. The Read the full article...

A civilian was killed and another one was wounded in an explosion in Gardez city, the provincial capital of Paktia province. The incident took place earlier today after a magnetic improvised explosive device planted in a civilian vehicle went off. Provincial governor’s spokesman Abdullah Hasrat confirmed that one civilian was killed and another civilian was Read the full article...

A top Pakistani envoy has said Islamabad wants the Taliban group members as well as the members of the notorious Haqqani terrorist network to return to Afghanistan. Speaking to Urdu service of BBC, Aizaz Chaudhry said the government of Pakistan do not want the Taliban and Haqqanis to live in the country. He admitted that Read the full article...

The US and Pakistani officials got into a heated discussion on Friday regarding the circumstances surrounding the fight against terrorism and the sanctuaries of the Afghan militants inside the Pakistani territory. Speaking at the UN Security Council debate on Afghanistan, the US Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan said the United States can’t work with Read the full article...

The Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani says the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces are committed to the national unity, insisting that petty politics does not hold any space within our forces. President Ghani made the remarks during a visit to a compound of the Afghan Special Operations Forces in capital Kabul on Friday. He Read the full article...

At least eighteen militants were killed during the operations of the Afghan armed forces in northern Kunduz province of Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said Saturday. According to a statement by MoD, the operations were conducted with the close air support of the Afghan Air Force in Chahar Dara district. The statement further added Read the full article...