WASHINGTON: Over seventy prominent scholars and activists, including Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg, signed a letter urging President Barack Obama to visit with Hibakusha, atomic bomb survivors, and to announce concrete steps toward nuclear disarmament when he visits Hiroshima this Friday after the Group of Seven economic summit in Japan. American …

There is no denying that Afghanistan is a gateway to Central Asia. Thus, the country is a bridge between the energy-starving South Asian countries energy-rich Central Asian republics. However, the foreign invasions and civil war never let the country to tap its potential and become a developed state. After fall …

By Abbas Jan-There is a broad based agreement with in the scientific community that climate change is real. The U.S environmental protection agency, the national aeronautics and space administration, and the National oceanic and atmospheric administration concur that climate change is indeed occurring and is almost certainly due to human …

The Government of Afghanistan and the US Government have confirmed that an operation by US forces resulted in the death of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansur. Under Mullah Mansur’s leadership, the Taliban have continued to conduct brutal attacks across Afghanistan, leading to the death and suffering of countless Afghan civilians …

US president calls apparent death an “important milestone” after several drones attack his Mansoor’s car in Pakistan. US President Barack Obama has said Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was killed in a US strike. In a statement on Monday, he called Mansour’s death an “important milestone”. “We have removed …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Taliban’s supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour has been killed in a strike launched by the US drones on Pakistani soil, Afghan and US officials said on Sunday. The National Directorate of Security (NDS), spy agency of Afghanistan, in a statement confirmed the death of Mansour. It …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: As many as 1,406 people had died and 4,000 wounded in traffic accidents last year across the country, officials in the ministry of transportation and civil aviation said. Lack of standard roads and traffic signs were called as the main elements of the casualties. Deputy transport …

AT-KABUL: Addressing cabinet meeting on Sunday, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Abdullah Abdullah said that the government was close to concluding a peace deal with the Hezb-i-Islma Afghanistan (HIA), led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. “No privileges against the constitution and national interests would be offered to the HIA for their return,” Abdullah …

AT-KABUL: Sixty-three Taliban fighters were killed and 41 others wounded in different crackdowns within past 24 hours, officials said Sunday. In a press release issued here, Ministry of Defense (MoD) said that Afghan NationalArmy (ANA) in collaboration with Afghan National Police (ANP) and National Directorate of Security (NDS) personnel conducted …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Security forces on Saturday night raided a Taliban-run prison in the Marjah district of the southern Helmand province, freeing all 23 people held by the group in a cell, an official said. “After securing the prison, the Afghan security forces freed twenty-three civilians and military officials from …