Over 13000 Afghani migrants return from Pakistan, IraqSome deported migrants alleged that despite possessing valid residency documents, they were detained by police and were forcibly returned t...
30 Jun, 2024, 03.10 PM IST
The Taliban have banned girls from school for 2 years. It's a worsening crisis for all AfghansThe United Nations General Assembly is addressing the rights of Afghan women and children, particularly concerning the Taliban's ban on gir...
18 Sep, 2023, 11.30 AM IST
Taliban seized over $7 billion of US military equipmentThe United States provided more than $7 billion worth of military equipment to the former Afghan government, according to sources, much of ...
18 Aug, 2022, 05.14 PM IST
Islamic State claims rockets fired from Afghanistan into TajikistanThe Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) news agency reported that an IS press release claimed the militants fired seven rockets from the Khawaja Gha...
08 May, 2022, 06.55 PM IST
IS claims Pakistan bombing that kills 56 at Shiite mosqueThe suicide bomber had strapped a powerful explosive device to his body, packed with 5 kilograms (12 pounds) of explosives, said Moazzam Ja...
05 Mar, 2022, 10.56 AM IST
Taliban urge ex-Afghan military pilots to stay, serve nationAfghan air force pilots played a key role, alongside their U.S. counterparts, in the 20-year war against Taliban insurgents that ended with...
10 Nov, 2021, 07.02 PM IST
Explainer: How dangerous is Afghanistan's Islamic State?President Joe Biden cited the threat of Islamic State attacks in sticking with a Tuesday deadline for pulling U.S. forces out of Afghanista...
27 Aug, 2021, 02.46 PM IST
President Ghani talks with officials regarding security of Kabul citizens"Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, had a telephone conversation with security officials regarding th...
15 Aug, 2021, 07.05 PM IST
UNSC says it does not support the restoration of the Islamic Emirate in AfghanistanIn a press statement on the “escalating violence in Afghanistan” issued by Council President India's Permanent Representative to the UN Amb...
04 Aug, 2021, 10.22 AM IST
Mortar shells hit Kabul residential areas, at least 8 deadThe shells were fired from two cars, Interior Ministry spokesman Tariq Arian said. No one took immediate responsibility for the early morni...
21 Nov, 2020, 02.13 PM IST
UN: Civilian deaths by Taliban and Afghan forces on the riseA horrific attack last week at a maternity hospital in the Afghan capital has not been claimed by any group, but the United States said it ...
19 May, 2020, 03.10 PM IST
Potential rise of Islamic State in Afghanistan makes Taliban nervousThat reality should be useful to the US government as it tries to negotiate a transition deal with the Afghan government and the Taliban.
04 Aug, 2015, 04.00 AM IST
Ashraf Ghani pitches for regional strategy to tackle terrorismAsserting that terrorism was a threat to all, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani pitched for a coherent regional strategy to deal with the menac...
29 Apr, 2015, 02.19 PM IST
US does not consider Afghan Taliban as a 'terrorist' outfitWhen asked for a second time whether the Taliban is a terrorist group, he replied, "I don't think that the Taliban, - the Taliban is an arm...
29 Jan, 2015, 06.04 PM IST
US does not consider Afghan Taliban as a 'terrorist' outfitIt called the Islamic State as a "terrorist" group, drawing a controversial distinction between the two outfits.
29 Jan, 2015, 03.35 PM IST
US says Taliban 'armed insurgency', ISIL 'terrorist' groupISIL or IS is an al-Qaeda splinter group and it has seized hundreds of square miles in Iraq and Syria, declaring an Islamic Caliphate.
29 Jan, 2015, 03.14 PM IST
- US wants Afghanistan to lift death sentence against journalist
The United States wants Afghanistan to lift a death sentence imposed on an Afghan journalist by trial judges who said an article attributed...
26 Jan, 2008, 12.00 PM IST