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AT-KABUL: The United States supports Afghan government’s peace offer to the Taliban, calling on the insurgent group to accept the constitution and government’s achievements and stop violence, the US deputy ambassador to Kabul, Annie Pforzheirmer said. In a meeting with the Afghan national security adviser, Hanif Atmar on Wednesday, Pforzheimer …

AT-KABUL: Afghanistan plans to open air corridors to send products to five countries, the ministry of commerce and industries said Wednesday, a move after the opening air corridors with India and Kazakhstan last year. “We are planning to open air corridors to Azerbaijan, Sri Lanka, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia …

AT-KABUL: The former President Hamid Karzai said that Afghanistan has been the victim of extremism and terrorism, which is being used as means to reach the great goals of a number of countries. He said this on Wednesday, while delivering speech in Seventh Moscow Conference on International Security. He also …

AT-KABUL: There has been huge hullaballoo over civilian casualties in a gathering targeted by a military airstrike in northern Kunduz province–which officials reported to have killed 18 Taliban chieftains, while an ensuring sporadic gunfire by panicked militants kills dozens of civilians. Meanwhile, police chief of Dasht-e-Archi, where the strike turned …

By Mina Habib-Mohammad Naeem, 26, is in a Kabul jail awaiting trial on charges of stealing a mobile phone. Arrested on March 2, 2018 in the Karta-e-Chahr area of Kabul city, he says he will be pleading guilty to the crime. Naeem told IWPR that he had felt under huge …

AT-KABUL: Highwaymen temporarily blocked highway and looted cash and other valuables from passengers in the Kotal Kharqool area on Kabul-Ghor highway on Tuesday night, officials said on Wednesday. A group of four highwaymen stopped 10 vehicles, have beaten up 200 passengers, and snatched cash and valuables from them in western …

AT-KABUL: The United Nations has said they will investigate the disturbing report of serious harm to the civilians during military airstrikes conducted by the Afghan forces in northern Kunduz province. The U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, or UNAMA, reminded all parties of their obligations to protect civilians from impact of …

By Mansoor Faizy and Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: A military air strike targeting a gathering of senior Taliban commanders at a religious school in northern Kunduz province is reported to have killed 18 Taliban chieftains. Air forces pounded the Taliban with machinegun helicopters, authorities said. Ministry of Defense Spokesperson Gen. Radmanish said …

AT-KABUL: More than 200 health centers are scheduled to be built in 13 provinces, ministry of public health announced Tuesday. “These centers will be built in Herat, Kandahar, Paktia, Paktika, Kandahar, Khost, Badakhshan, Takhar, Baghlan, Jawzjan, Bamyan, Ghazni and Kabul provinces,” public health minister, Ferozuddin Feroz said while signing contracts …

The issue of poising school girls still remained unresolved—in the past, Taliban insurgents claimed responsibility for such incidents, in which several schoolgirls were hospitalized even in the capital city, Kabul. It was also created fear for students to go inside their classroom as the classes and water may have been …