Taliban destroyed a bridge on the Kabul-Jalalabad’s second-lane road in Surkhrod district of Nangarhar province, Pajhwok News reported. The bridge was blown following the Taliban attacks on a checkpoint in Fatehabad area of the district. The second-lane was mostly used by residents of Sararud, Khogyani, Sherzad and Hesarak districts. As the Taliban militants dynamited the bridge, Afghan National Army temporarily […]

Nine members of the Afghan Border Force were killed in two attacks by the Taliban on their outposts in Herat, sources from the province said on Friday. The attack happened on two outposts in Kohsan and Ghorian districts on Thursday night, sources said. The two districts share border with Iran. The districts fell to the Taliban following the clashes, sources […]

Al Qaeda and its regional affiliate, al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, continue to operate across Afghanistan despite repeated Taliban claims by the Taliban that the group is no longer present in the country, according to a report by Long War Journal. Based on the report, al Qaeda and other groups associated with it have been involved in perpetrating dozens […]

Members of Baloch community at a rally in Kabul on Friday asked the government to consider a role for them in the peace process and ensure their basic rights as a citizen. Some Baloch elders at the event said the community has had no role in war over the past four decades, adding that they can play a positive role […]

China’s foreign ministry said Friday it would take necessary measures to protect the legal rights of Chinese companies after the United States added Chinese supercomputing entities to an economic blacklist, Reuters reported. This comes as the U.S. Commerce Department said Thursday that it was adding seven Chinese supercomputing entities to a U.S. economic blacklist for assisting Chinese military efforts.

Al Qaeda and its regional branch, Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, continue to operate across Afghanistan despite repeated claims by the Taliban that the group has no presence in the country, the Long War Journal said in a report. According to the report, Al Qaeda’s enduring presence in Afghanistan is visible both through press reporting on Coalition operations against […]

US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad met with President Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation (HCNR) on Saturday to discuss the peace process and the upcoming Istanbul summit. “Khalilzad met with Ghani twice during the day and discussed the upcoming Istanbul summit, the timeframe, finalization of the list of participants, and […]

The Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of Parliament) on Saturday summoned Afghanistan’s top security officials to answer questions after a plane carrying a Pakistani delegation led by the country’s Speaker of the House, Asad Qaisar, was turned back to Islamabad after entering Afghan airspace on Thursday following the discovery of explosives on a runway at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai Airport. Acting Interior […]

Colonel Sharifullah Sartayib was appointed as new police chief for Kandahar province, replacing Gen. Tadin Khan, who was appointed to the post in 2018. Col. Sartayib started his duty on Saturday at a ceremony attended by Kandahar governor Rohullah Khanzada, former police chief Gen. Tadin Khan and other officials. Meanwhile, sources from Kandahar said that Tadin Khan has been appointed […]

Lawmakers in Afghanistan’s parliament on Saturday summoned heads of security agencies to respond to them about the diversion of a plane carrying Pakistan’s parliament speaker Asad Qaiser’s who was supposed to land at Hamid Karzai International Airport as part of his planned three-day visit to Kabul on Thursday. Qaiser’s planned three-day visit to Kabul was called off following reports that […]