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AT-KABUL: Seventy-nine insurgents were killed and 36 others wounded as a result of different crackdowns within past 24 hours across the country, said security officials on Monday. In a statement the Ministry of Defense said that the Afghan National Security and Defense Forces (ANSDF) conducted clearance operations against insurgents in …

AT-KABUL: Eight fighters, loyal to the Islamic State, also known as Daesh, were killed after the Afghan Air Forces conducted an air raid in Achin district of eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Friday. “Daesh fighters were busy devising evil designs, when the Afghan Air Force targeted them in …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL:  A dissident Taliban group, led by Mullah Rasoul, rejected to pledge allegiance to the new appointed group’s leader Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, as it had denied Mullah Akhtar Mansour who came to lead the militants after the death report of the Taliban’s founder Mullah Omar in July. Omar …

AT-KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai has asked the government to stop the execution of the prisoners, arguing that only the way of brotherhood and unity goes to the lasting peace and stability, his office said. “The war is imposed on us by the aliens and the killing of Taliban leader …

According to the statistics obtained from the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation, totally 250,000 Afghans submitted applications for asylum in the European Union states in 2015. Most of them went illegally there. Many were pushed out of the country by poverty and some by insecurity. The wave of immigration rose …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: The Civil Society Network and Political Activists (CSNPA) disclosed a document claiming that Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) faced with serious corruptions. Members of the network on Wednesday in a press conference alleged that they have accessed to a credible document about extensive corruption in the …

Political pundits and security affairs analysts were of the view that the Taliban insurgents would engage in infighting over leadership of the group. However, it did not happen. Most of their theories regarding new battle over leadership of the group, after killing of Mullah Mansoor in a US drone strike …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: At least 11 people were killed after a court bus was targeted by a suicide bomber in Paghman area at the outskirts of Kabul city Wednesday morning, officials said. “A suicide bomber blew himself up by hitting into appeal court of Wardak province bus in Bagh-e-Dawood area …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Taliban confirmed the killing of their leader Mullah Akhtar Masnour, announcing Haibatullah Akhundzada as new leader for the group. Taliban Spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said that Mansour was killed on Saturday in a US drone strike in an area between Registan area of Kandahar and Noshki of Pakistan’s …

Afghan government has hinted that Qatar could engage the Taliban in the peace process as the militant group’s political office is in Doha. Perhaps, President Ashraf Ghani’s visit to Qatar was part of this initiative. Most likely, the Qatari and Afghan authorities have agreed on the mechanism and conditions to …