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AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Saturday said that the Taliban’s shadow judge and mayor for Darqad district were arrested along with 12 militants in northern Takhar province. In a press statement issued here, the NDS said that its operatives managed to arrest the Taliban’s shadow judge, mayor …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Ministry of Women’s Affairs (MoWA) on Saturday said that in collaboration with the Supreme Court it has started registration of marriage and distribution of marriage certificate in order to protect women’s rights. “In order to reduce violence against women, the ministry is taking steps to register all …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Lt. Gen. John Nicholson who has been nominated by President Barack Obama as the new US forces commander in Afghanistan, says that the US authorities need to think about “an enduring commitment” to the Afghans. Nicholson told the US Senate Armed Services Committee that the plan for …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The National Security       Advisor Mohammad Hanif Atmar on Friday met with German ambassador to Kabul Markus Potzel, discussing issues that cause Afghans’ migration. At least 160,000 Afghans have reportedly reached Europe over the past one year to seek asylum and some 40 percent of them have been …

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 …