By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: The night before Kabul’s suicide attack, President Ashraf Ghani met some members of the parliament to discuss security situation, the lawmakers said Wednesday. “President Ghani marked the next six months bloody for Afghanistan as militants intensified attacks,” the lawmakers who met Ghani, told parliament session. A …

AT-KABUL: An analysis session held by the Rana Think Tank, called the current government weaker comparing the past administrations, saying that mistakes in the serving government are much more than experienced in the monarchy and the administrations after that. Abdul Jabbar Taqwa, former Kabul provincial governor who now heads the …

By M. Sadiq Yousafi-KABUL: The death toll from the Tuesday’s deadliest Taliban attack incapital Kabul jumped to 64, and the number of injured persons to 347, several of them still in hospitals under treatment, according to security officials. “With regrets to announce in yesterday’s (Tuesday) attack, 64 of our innocent …

The government says it is now calling Taliban as terrorists, the militants who have been waging the 14-year-long battle with the NATO-backed government forces and have several times refused Kabul administration’s demands for peace talks. The former president Hamid Karzai following a peaceful policy used to call Taliban insurgents as …

AT-KABUL: The National Security Adviser, Mohammad Hanif Atmar met with Wang Yi, China’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, in Beijing the other day. The two sides held in-depth talks about expansion of bilateral relation, China’s economic cooperation with Afghanistan and fight against terrorism, National Security Council spokesman, Tawab Ghorzang said in …

AT-KABUL: The Afghan security forces in different crackdowns across the country during past 24 hours, had killed 33 insurgents and injured 35 other militants, security officials said on Wednesday. The Ministry of Defense (MoD) in a press statement, said that the security forces conducted operations against insurgents in different areas …

AT-KABUL: Tuesday’s suicide attack in Kabul city was nationally and internationally condemned as a terrorist attack, which could not be justified by any means. President Ashraf Ghani said in a statement that: “such cowardly terrorist attacks will not weaken the will and determination of Afghan security forces to fight against …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: Afghan and Italian officials signed three economical, infrastructural and cultural cooperation agreements on Tuesday here in Kabul. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Salahuddin Rabbani during singing ceremony, said that according to the agreements the government of Italy vowed to construct Chest-i-Sharif road in Herat province at …

Kabul residents saw another bloodbath and another mourning day. It is the story of Afghanistan which is repeated and we have forgotten to count. In a glance across the country, it is hard to get good news. Taliban insurgents under their spring offensive ‘Operation Omari’ have intensified attacks which Kabul …

AT-KABUL: Five fighters of the Islamic State (IS) also known as Daesh, were killed in a US drone strike in eastern Nangarhar province, local officials said Tuesday. The provincial governor’s spokesman, Attaullah Khogyani said that the drone was targeted the hideouts of Daesh militants in Shadal locality of Achin district. “The fighters …