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AT-KABUL: Taliban on Tuesday announced its spring offensive entitled “Operation Omari” across the country, saying that Afghan and foreign troops would be their most targets. In a statement the group said that operation began at 05:00 am on April 12. The statement said that the operation would employ large scale …

KABUL: Prominent diplomat and former foreign minister Rangeen Dadfar Spanta in an article published in the Hasht-e-Sobh daily, has analyzed US Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent remarks about the serving government in Afghanistan, saying that political power in the country is not structured by the people’s intention via a …

AT-KABUL: In protest to the education ministry’s decision to omit 11th, 12th degrees in a number of Bagrami district high schools, hundreds of people staged demonstration. The ministry of education says the decision has been taken due to dozens of problems such as lack of professional teachers, text books and …

AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Tuesday said that an ammunition cache of the Haqqani terrorist network was discovered and confiscated in Kabul. In a statement the NDS said that its operatives managed to discover and confiscate an ammunition cache belonged to the Haqqani terrorist network in Tarakhil …

AT-KABUL: The Annual Investment Meeting (AIM) agency, a body monitoring the Central Asia’s investments, granted the best investment award for 2015 to the Afghanistan Investment Support Agency (AISA). The AIM is launched by United Arab Emirates every year with the aim to improve investment ties and discussion over trade issues …

AT-KABUL: Eighteen Taliban fighters were killed and 22 others wounded in different operations in the past 24 hours, officials said Tuesday. In a press release, the defense ministry said that the Afghan National Army with the collaboration of the Afghan National Police and the National Directorate of Security conducted operations …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL:  The Lower House of parliament on Monday strongly criticized US Secretary of State John Kerry’s remarks, asking Washington to refrain political interference in Afghanistan’s internal affairs. In his Saturday’s visit to Kabul, Kerry highlighted that the agreement which the National Unity Government signed by Ashraf Ghani …

AT-KABUL: The Criminal Justice Task Forces (CJTF) on Monday said that nine drug runners including a woman were arrested in different operations last week in the country. “Nine smugglers were apprehended by the counter-narcotics police through different crackdowns in Kabul, Farah and Nangarhar provinces,” the CJTF said in a statement. …

AT-KABUL: Two personnel of the Ministry of Education were killed and seven others wounded while their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in a district of Kabul province Monday morning, security officials said. A bus carrying staff of the Ministry of Education struck by a roadside bomb in Kamari area of …

AT-KABUL: At least 26 houses were completely damaged when a Sunday’s 6.8-magnitude earthquake that hit parts of the country. “Twenty-one houses in Takhar, three in Badakhshan and two houses in Panjshir provinces were completely damaged in the earthquake,” Omar Mohammadi, spokesperson for the State Ministry for Disaster Management and Humanitarian …