At least 39 people, including 16 foreigners, have died in an attack on a nightclub in Istanbul, Turkey’s interior minister has said. Suleyman Soylu also revealed police were still hunting for the “terrorist” who attacked the Reina nightclub at about 01:30 local time (22:30 GMT). For hours after the attack …

The Afghan leadership has invited Pakistan’s new army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa to visit Afghanistan. The military media wing’s chief Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor tweeted Gen. Bajwa telephoned on Saturday the Afghan leadership and facilitated them on the eve of new year. The Inter-Services Public Relations chief said that …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Members of the Wolesi Jirga (Lower House) of parliament on Saturday protested over air pollution in the capital and provinces, warning government to take serious actions for solution. Scores of the parliament members marched from the gate of the parliament building to plenary hall. They carried banners, …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The adviser of the chief executive, Fazil Sancharaki, said the National Unity Government (NUG) is responsible for the weak performance of the previous commissioners at the Independent Election Commission (IEC). He said the NUG is aware of its errors and the poor performances of the former commissioners. …

“Without improved economy, administration and army, Afghanistan will not have a future at all. Afghanistan will disappear, will fall apart,” says Putin’s special envoy to Afghanistan AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Russia’s special envoy to Afghanistan said that Moscow has no peace plan for the war-hit country. In an exclusive interview with …

Unity among Afghans is stronger than calculations of the anti-Afghanistan elements. The civil war period is a dark chapter of Afghanistan’s history but we cannot change. It is also true that Afghans came under one roof for defense of the country. They will continue to do so no matter how …

By Maj Gen Ashok K Mehta (retd)-EVERY successive year, for over a decade now, New Delhi is rated in surveys as the most popular country in Afghanistan. This year, it bagged 64 per cent of the vote. Afghan Ambassador to India, Shaida Abdali, calls India a national partner. At this …

AT-KABUL: Farah police chief said the Taliban corpses were transferred to Tehran and their funerals held there. “Iran has cooperation with the Taliban. Dead bodies of the insurgents were transferred to Iran and they even held funeral for them,” said the Farah police chief, Toryallay Abdeyani. However, Iranian ambassador to …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL:  Leader of the Qaumi Watan Party (QWP), a political party of neo-nationalists based in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, stressed on participation of Afghanistan in Moscow trilateral consultation process on Afghan conflict and peace process. In a statement, Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao said that the Moscow trilateral consultation process …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Three Afghan migrants killed and 10 others, including six children, wounded in traffic accident in Serbia. The Serbian interior ministry said the other day that a passenger car, driven by a suspected smuggler, swerved off the road and hit a barrier in a quest to flee from …