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Kabul: Security forces have killed 59 insurgents and injured 24 others in military offensives across the country over past day, authorities said Wednesday. Four militants were arrested and handed over to judicial organs for further inquiry. Security Forces shelled and bombed enemy’s sanctuaries and stations with air strikes and artilleries. …

KABUL: Twenty four people have been given prison sentences by counternarcotics courts of the country for drug trafficking over past week, authorities said Wednesday. Criminal Justice Task Force said in a statement that its primary and appellate courts have sentenced 24 smugglers to 18 months -30 years prison time. Counter …

KABUL: Tribesmen in southeastern Logar have said that a number of civilianshad died in a pre-dawn raid by the army in a remote village on Tuesday night as government forces escalated their offensive to squash rebel strongholds there. Police Spokesman of Logar Shapoor Ahmadzai said that security forces last night …

KABUL: All Afghans including the government want peace, but the Taliban have not nodded to this hankering of the people, said Executive Abdullah Abdullah, stressing that efforts for peace have been sped up. Dr. Abdullah made these comments at a conference at the Sciences Po in France on Tuesday. He …

KABUL: The High Peace Council (HPC) says that the Taliban delegation and the US special envoy for Afghanistan reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad had reached agreements over a number of issues. Khalilzad met for the second time with the members of Taliban political office in Qatar, after which he offered hopes of …

KABUL: The former president, Hamid Karzai in a meeting with the US special envoy for the reconciliation of Afghanistan promised to support any move leading towards the peace and strength of the national sovereignty in Afghanistan, his office said Tuesday.  Zalmay Khalilzad informed Karzai of the fresh development regarding the …

KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani says that the country’s current problems were caused by lack of properly learning Prophet Mohammad’s morality. Ghani who was addressing a number of religious scholars on the occasion of Prophet Mohammad’s (PBUH) birth anniversary in Kabul, said Tuesday that the prophet was fighting against violence and …

KABUL: The cases of five ministers sent to the attorney general office are under prosecution, said the anti-corruption special secretariat, without identifying them or providing details if they were members of the current cabinet. It also refused to disclose the crimes of these ministers. Meanwhile, sources in the government have …

KABUL: A suicide bomber blew himself up Tuesday evening inside a wedding hall in Kabul, where religious scholars had gathered to commemorate the birthday of Prophet Muhammad, killing more than 50 people and injuring 83, government officials said. Basir Mujahid, a spokesman for the Kabul Police said a suicide bomber …

KABUL: Several notorious commanders of the Islamic State-Khurasan were among 50 Daesh terrorists killed in an offensive in eastern Nangarhar province in which security forces decimated a handful of hideouts over past week, officials said Tuesday. Governor Spokesman Attaullah Khogyani confirmed that Daesh commanders were among the terrorists killed in …