The enormous fire that destroyed more than 500 trucks at the Islam Qala port facility in Herat province, along the border with Iran, has left business owners reeling as financial losses are estimated to be over $50 million. The massive fire burned for over 24 hours after a fuel tanker reportedly exploded at midday on Saturday.

Eleven people, including an engineer, working on the Pashdan Dam project in Herat province, have been kidnapped by the Taliban, provincial council members confirmed Monday.

Seven Daesh militants were killed Sunday night in an operation by the National Directorate of Security in eastern Nangarhar province, the NDS said in a statement.

The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan said Monday that human rights and media space in Afghanistan has contracted in the past few months as a result of the sharp increase in targeted attacks against professionals in these two sectors.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on the eve of the NATO defense ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday that the alliance will “closely consult” on the way forward in Afghanistan.

On January 11, 2021, a four-year-old Christian girl Eshal was abducted, raped and killed in Malkhanwala village in Waras Pura tehsil (revenue unit) of Faisalabad District. On January 9, 2021, the dead bodies of two Christian girls were found in a sewer near Makhan Colony in the Kahna area of Lahore. They were abducted and killed by Muhammad Mumtaz and […]

Some Afghan diplomats continued to serve in some of Afghanistan’s foreign missions beyond the legal period of three years in violation of the relevant law, Pajhwok Afghan News reliably learned on Wednesday.

Six security personnel in a check-post have been killed and four others wounded in an in insider attack on Zabul-Kandahar highway while a National Directorate of Security (NDS) personnel was killed and two other were wounded in southwestern Daikundi province, officials said Monday.