KABUL: US drone strikes in Afghanistan killed 57 insurgents during the last four months, a leading France news agency reports. US drones carried out six times during this year in different eastern provinces including Nangarhar, Kunar and Nuristan, the news agency reported. The drone targeted Al-Qaeda and other militants’ hideouts. …

KABUL: Fifteen militants have been killed when heavy-armed insurgents mounted attacks on police check posts in northeastern Kunduz province, police spokesman said on Friday. Sayed Sarwar Hussaini told Pajhwok Afghan News that Taliban stormed police check posts in Chagor Qashlaq locality in Khanabad district. Soon after the attack, fresh reinforcements …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: India has delivered three Cheetal helicopters along with allied equipment and spares to Afghanistan, Indian junior defense minister told parliament on Friday. Indian Minister of State for Defense Rao Inderjit Singh told the lower house of India (Lok Sabha) in a written reply that the three helicopters …

Citizens and public representatives in the parliament have times and again expressed their serious concerns over protracted delay in appointment of new governors and defense minister. Sadly, the leaders are showing no sign of being convinced or worried over a host of challenges that trouble public and which has arrested …

Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi-KABUL: Free & Fair Election Forum of Afghanistan (FEFA) on Thursday asked the government to bring to justice those who were involved in fraud in last year’s presidential and provincial councils’ elections. Program Manager of FEFA, Naeem Asghari, in a press conference here said that the electoral commissions …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: The Civil Movement of Social Justice (CMSJ), a watchdog, claimed that further delay in appointment of new governors by the National Unity Government (NUG) would fuel insecurity in the country further and force the people to stop trusting the government. Speaking at a press conference here …

Paternal grandmother of U.S. President Barack Obama attended an exhibition detailing the life of the Prophet Mohammad at the end of a pilgrimage in the Saudi city of Makkah, local media reported Wednesday. Sara Omar, who is in her 90s, arrived in Makkah – considered in Islam to be the …

A clean-up operation has begun in New South Wales in the wake of violent storms that battered the Australian state. Police have confirmed the deaths of four people. Three were killed in Dungog, where homes have been washed away by flooding. An 86-year-old woman died in the Central Hunter region …

The US has accused Russia of deploying more air defence systems in eastern Ukraine in breach of a ceasefire deal. The state department also said Russia was involved in training separatist forces in the area and building up its forces along the border. The Kremlin has not yet responded to …

EU leaders are due to hold an emergency summit on ways to stem the number of migrants risking the perilous journey across the Mediterranean. BBC Europe editor Katya Adler says draft proposals include a push for a military mandate to destroy boats used by people traffickers. More than 800 people …