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 […]

Chinese investors at a joint expo in Kabul on Friday said they are willing to invest in Afghanistan if they are provided the environment by the Afghan government, according to the private sector representatives and organizers of the event. The organizer of the event, Yuming Hui, a Chinese citizen who has lived in the country for the last 20 years, […]

Last week was one of the deadliest weeks in the past three months as 107 people were killed and 110 more were wounded in various security incidents, most of which were attacks on security outposts, in various parts of the country, according to data collected by TOLOnews. Of those killed from April 3 to April 9, 79 were security force […]

US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad arrived in Kabul on Saturday and held a meeting with Abdullah Abdullah, head of the High Council for National Reconciliation, and the leadership committee of the council, to discuss the peace process, the reconciliation council said. Khalilzad also met with President Ashraf Ghani and according to the Presidential Palace statement, they discussed the peace process […]

Foreign Minister Haneef Atmar met with Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo, NATO Senior Civilian Representative for Afghanistan on Wednesday, who assured the Afghan government of its continued cooperation and support for the peace process and in the fight against terrorism. Atmar expressed gratitude for NATO’s support and welcomed the decisions taken at recent meetings of NATO Foreign and Defense Ministers on Afghanistan […]