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AT-KABUL: First Vice President, Abdul Rashid Dostum who is in Turkey for a long time, is due to come back to country, an aide of him said. Abdullah Qarloq, member of senate who is who is close to Dostum said Sunday that President Ashraf Ghani in his recent visit to …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: In the wake of a week-long painstaking military drill of the government security and defense forces in western Farah city, the insurgent Taliban combatants have been pushed back and violence has receded, according to local authorities, allowing residents to resume their daily life after days of unrest …

AT-KABUL: At least 72 people have been killed due to heavy flash floods across the country during the past week, said disaster management authority on Sunday. Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA) in a statement said that as result of floods in Samangan, Takhar, Kapisa, Baghlan, Badakhshan, Badghis, Ghor, Panjshir, …

AT-KABUL: Over Hundred thousand Afghans have been forced to leave their homes because of war and growing insecurity in the last five months of the 2018, the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) said on Sunday. Growing insecurity in different provinces such as Kunduz, Baghlan, Faryab, Sar-e-Pul, Nangarhar, Helmand and …

AT-KABUL: The national army is launching operations in 10 provinces including Farah, Ghazni and Uruzgan, the most insecure ones in the recent days. The ministry said the aim of the operations were to return security to Farah city, KhasUruzgan district of Uruzgan and districts under threat in Ghazni provinces. “The …

Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: In the wake of deterioration of security and outrage of the insurgent Taliban in western Farah province, high-ranking security brass along with General John W. Nicholson Commander of the Resolute Support Mission travelled to Farah on Saturday, meeting with residents and pledging to address security grievances and batter the militants. …

AT-KABUL: At least nine people died and hundreds of house destroyed after flash floods hit different districts in the northern province of Balkh, officials said Saturday. “The floods struck districts of Kholm, Sholgar, Chemtal, Charkent and Shakandi after spring rainfalls,” said Rahmatullah Zahed, head of the Afghanistan National Disaster Management …

AT-KABUL: Ajristan district of Ghazni province is, according to a local authority, highly likely to fall to the Taliban insurgents. Ajristan district chief warned on Saturday that the district could fallto the insurgent Taliban if reinforcements are not dispatched to buffer the Taliban push. District chief Hamdullah warned that all …

AT-KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani at the summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Istanbul on Friday said that specter of violence still overshadowed the world, calling for genuine inter-national dialogue and state-to-state cooperation to overcome insecurities facing humanity. At OIC’s Extraordinary Islamic Summit Conference on Palestine, Ghani condemned the …

AT-KABUL:  The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) on Saturday strongly condemned the back-to-back attacks in Jalalabad, the capital city of eastern Nangarhar province, which killed at least eight civilians and injured at least 55, the agency said in a statement. “Facts in the incident have now become clear. Four …