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AT-KABUL: Three Taliban armed attackers today afternoon attacked the house of Zabul Security Chief, in Qalat city, where after few minutes, one attacker was killed and two were detained by security forces, provincial official said. Zabul Governor’s spokesman, Gul Islam Syal, told Afghanistan Times three suspected Taliban armed men today afternoon …

Hamid Karzai condemns suicide attacks in Kabul, Logar AT-KABUL: At least 15 people were killed and about 140 injured on Friday in the wee hours suicide attack near a military base in the capital city, Kabul. A suicide bomber detonated an explosives filled truck in Shah Shaheed area of Kabul …

AT-KABUL: At least six people were killed and 15 others wounded when a suicide bomber detonated a truck filled with explosives in the capital of Logar province on Thursday early morning, said officials. Member of the provincial council, Abdul Wali Ahmadzai, said the suicide bomber detonated a mini-truck filled with …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A number of unknown armed men have torched at least 12 mosques in the past week in northern Baghlan province, local officials said on Wednesday. TOLOnews quoted Abdul Rasheed Bashir, the acting police chief of Baghlan, as saying that the Taliban militants had hand in the incidents. …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Resolute Support Mission and the US forces commander in Afghanistan Gen. John F. Campbell has said that there is no way that the Taliban can defeat the Afghan national security forces. He made the remarks at a session held at Brooking Institution at Washington DC on …

Fatiha for Mullah Omar: Kabul police confuse over arrests order AT-KABUL: The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Abdullah Abdullah has ordered the capital police to arrest those government officials who the mourned the death of Mullah Omar and offered Fatiha however the police seemed perplexed as the orders do not identify …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) on Wednesday released a report documenting 559 women civilian casualties—revealing 23 percent increase in the first six months of 2015 across the country. Director of Human Rights Unit of UNAMA, Danielle Bell, said that the UNAMA protection of civilian …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: With donation of blood by tens of sportsmen and volunteers, the Ministry of Public Health on Wednesday commemorated the World Blood Donor Day campaign (WBDD) with its international partners here in the Central Blood Bank. The theme of this year for blood campaign is “Thank you …

At least 56 Taliban and Islamic State (IS) fighters have been killed in a barrage of drone strikes in eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Wednesday. Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, the governor’s spokesman, said the unmanned aircraft fired a volley of missiles on hideouts in the Gogori area of Haska …

KABUL: Mullah Sher Mohammad Agha Abbas Stanikzai has replaced Tayyab Agha as Taliban’s Qatar office head, a media report said on Wednesday. Tayyab Agha resigned the position in protest over Mullah Omar’s death being kept under wraps, calling it a historic blunder. He also vehemently criticised Mullah Mansoor’s appointment as …