Khalil-ur-Rahman Narmgui, chief of the Baghlan-e-Markazi district hospital, in Baghlan province was killed in an attack by Taliban militants on Tuesday evening, the Interior Ministry (MoI) confirmed.

A lack of security has inflicted a loss of over $15 million to telecommunication companies, as 380 towers have been totally or partially damaged in various parts of the country since last March, official figures reveal.

At least nine public uprising force members were killed in a Taliban attack on a security outpost in Logar province on Monday night, sources said on Tuesday. The Taliban attacked a security outpost in Pul-e-Alam, the capital of Logar, the source said. “The clashes continued for more than two hours during which the outpost was taken over and nine public […]

Many residents of the Shirzad district in the eastern province of Nangarhar are busy growing opium poppy in the Gandamak area, where it was planted months earlier.

There was a rise in civilians killed and injured in Afghanistan following the start of peace negotiations in September, according to a report released by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the UN Human Rights Office on Tuesday.

The Defense Ministry is preparing to increase special operations forces to face the Taliban in the upcoming fighting season this spring, Deputy Defense Minister Shah Mahmoud Miakhil said on Tuesday. Miakhil said that special forces from the army, police and the NDS are preparing together and that no area in the country will face the threat of collapse. Figures by […]

Hundreds of clerics from in Afghanistan’s Herat province on Tuesday appealed to the Afghan government and the Taliban to end the violence and announce a ceasefire in the country.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has renewed his call for a global truce, so the world can focus on fighting the pandemic. Guterres stated in a tweet late Sunday that a ceasefire would create space for diplomacy and enable humanitarian access across the world.

A large heroin production factory of the Taliban was destroyed by the Afghan forces in eastern Nangarhar province. In a statement released late Sunday, the Defense Ministry stated that the Afghan Defense Forces conducted a clearance operation in the Toto village in the Shirzad district of the province.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said Monday that the recent wave of violence against our people is an indication of a systematic onslaught against Afghan society. Addressing the 46th regular session of the UN Human Rights Council, President Ghani said that targeted killings are the sharp edge directed against men and women representing the profound transformation of Afghan society during the […]