AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A Russian delegation will soon visit Kabul for bolstering up mutual trade ties between Afghanistan and Russia, Afghan officials in chamber of commerce and industries said the other day. Kabul will ink a contract with Russian officials on Afghanistan’s fresh and dry fruits export aimed at finding …

The Human Rights Watch on Friday said that Iran is forcing Afghan refugees to fight for Syria’s Bashar al-Assad. According to report of the watchdog, the Iranian authorities have recruited thousands of Afghan refugees to die for Assad in the Syrian civil war. Coercion was also used as a tool …

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has recruited thousands of undocumented Afghans living there to fight in Syria since at least November 2013, Human Rights Watch said today, and a few have reported that Iranian authorities coerced them. Iran has urged the Afghans to defend Shia sacred sites and offered financial …

A 25-year-old Afghan national has been arrested and booked for staying in India without proper visa and passport, police said today. The accused, identified as Najok Mir, son of Wali Mohammad, from Badakhshan Province in Afghanistan, has also been booked for travelling without a ticket and misbehaving with a government …

An Afghan refugee died Thursday after being found in a remote region of eastern Turkey, hospital sources said. The man, identified as Mohammed Qasim, died in hospital in Erzurum after being found close to death by security forces in the province of Van, where temperatures regularly fall to around minus …

KABUL: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday said their mission in Afghanistan was aimed at denying safe haven to international terrorists. Launching his annual report for 2015 in Brussels, the NATO chief said they would continue to train, advise and assist the Afghan army and police. He said the …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: The Independent Directorate of Local Governance (IDLG) on Thursday said that it would appoint new governors and mayors by the end of current solar year, which will end on March 20, to replace all remaining caretakers. Spokesperson for the IDLG, Munira Yousuf Zada, told reporters that …

Countries in the post-conflict era or in the transitional decade make progress. Energies and resources are focused on development and only development. Unfortunately, we are taking two steps backward after one step forward. Law and order situation is fragile. Anti-polio campaigns are not producing the desired results because 34,000 children …

AT-KABUL: As many as 28 Taliban fighters were killed and 25 others wounded in different crackdowns within past 24 hours, said a statement. In a press release issued here, Ministry of Defense (MoD) said that Afghan National Army (ANA) in collaboration with Afghan National Police (ANP) and National Directorate of …

Tens-of-thousands have had asylum applications denied as European countries expand measures to limit flow of refugees. Sweden intends to expel as many as 80,000 refugees and migrants who arrived in 2015 and whose applications for asylum have been rejected. “We are talking about 60,000 people, but the number could climb …