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AT-KABUL:  Fifty three Taliban militants were killed and 20 others injured as the result of different crackdowns within past 24 hours, security officials said on Monday. In a statement Ministry of Defense (MoD) said that Afghan National Army (ANA) in collaboration with Afghan National Police (ANP) and National Directorate of …

WASHINGTON: Over seventy prominent scholars and activists, including Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg, signed a letter urging President Barack Obama to visit with Hibakusha, atomic bomb survivors, and to announce concrete steps toward nuclear disarmament when he visits Hiroshima this Friday after the Group of Seven economic summit in Japan. American …

The Government of Afghanistan and the US Government have confirmed that an operation by US forces resulted in the death of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansur. Under Mullah Mansur’s leadership, the Taliban have continued to conduct brutal attacks across Afghanistan, leading to the death and suffering of countless Afghan civilians …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Taliban’s supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour has been killed in a strike launched by the US drones on Pakistani soil, Afghan and US officials said on Sunday. The National Directorate of Security (NDS), spy agency of Afghanistan, in a statement confirmed the death of Mansour. It …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: As many as 1,406 people had died and 4,000 wounded in traffic accidents last year across the country, officials in the ministry of transportation and civil aviation said. Lack of standard roads and traffic signs were called as the main elements of the casualties. Deputy transport …

AT-KABUL: Addressing cabinet meeting on Sunday, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Abdullah Abdullah said that the government was close to concluding a peace deal with the Hezb-i-Islma Afghanistan (HIA), led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. “No privileges against the constitution and national interests would be offered to the HIA for their return,” Abdullah …

AT-KABUL: Sixty-three Taliban fighters were killed and 41 others wounded in different crackdowns within past 24 hours, officials said Sunday. In a press release issued here, Ministry of Defense (MoD) said that Afghan NationalArmy (ANA) in collaboration with Afghan National Police (ANP) and National Directorate of Security (NDS) personnel conducted …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Security forces on Saturday night raided a Taliban-run prison in the Marjah district of the southern Helmand province, freeing all 23 people held by the group in a cell, an official said. “After securing the prison, the Afghan security forces freed twenty-three civilians and military officials from …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Two border police officers were killed when a roadside bomb struck their vehicle in the Jawin district of western Farah province, an official said on Sunday. “The incident took place in Tapa-i-Khwaharan locality near the border with Iran at around 05:00pm on Saturday,” district chief Samad Yar …

Afghanistan’s spy agency says Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour was killed in a US bombing raid, the first confirmation from regional officials of his death, which marks a potential blow to the resurgent militant movement. The Taliban have not commented officially on the very rare American drone attack deep inside …