Afghanistan

Monitoring Desk HERAT: Nine police personnel were killed and five more sustained injuries in gunfight with Taliban in AnarDara district in Farah province of Afghanistan. Taliban attacked a convoy of security forces near AnarDara district bazaar yesterday. The gunfight lasted four several hours. Officials said that Taliban attacked the district headquarters and nearby checkpoints last…

Monitoring Desk KABUL: The Independent Election Commission (IEC) announced electoral serial numbers and symbols of candidates for the next presidential election on Thursday. According to a press release issued by the IEC, Rehmatullah Nabil has been placed at the first place while ZalmaiRasool has been given last number in the list. The IEC also provided…

KABUL (AA): Turkish state-run aid agency provided food and shelter for a thousand families suffering from floods in northern Afghanistan, the agency said on Thursday. The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) said it distributed food packages and tents to the families who lost their homes due to heavy floods in northern Faryab province. After…

Monitoring Desk KUNDUZ: Fresh clashes erupted between the security forces and Taliban in Dasht-e-Qilla district in Takhar province, officials said on Thursday. The officials yesterday announced that the district was completely purged of Taliban fighters. However, local residents told AIP that Taliban fighters still exist in some parts of the district. Taliban attacked security checkpoints…

Monitoring Desk KABUL/LASHKARGAH: The coalition forces fired cruise missile on a base of Taliban where they prepared improvised explosive devices and trained fighters for suicide attacks in Helmand province last night, officials said on Thursday. According to a press release issued by Helmand provincial media office, the coalition forces conducted airstrike against a Taliban base…

Christopher Jones KABUL: In March, I went to Chicken Street in Kabul, a well-known shopping stop for those Americans and foreigners who are allowed to venture outside the Green Zone. In one of my favorite shops, I noticed a tray of silver in one of the display cases. As the shopkeeper splayed the trinkets out…

KABUL (TOLO News): John Sopko, the US special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction told reporters on Wednesday in Washington that it’s getting “harder and harder” for the public to track the US military’s progress after 17-year war in Afghanistan. “What we are finding is now almost every indicia, metric for success or failure is now…

KABUL (Afghanistan Time): Afghan Ministry of Defense is working on a plan to collect unnecessary check posts in nonstrategic areas of the country and to resemble them in large bases and outposts. Asadullah Khalid, Acting Deference Minister in a press briefing on Thursday explained the ministry will dissolve all the unnecessary check posts which are…

KABUL (Afghanistan Time): Hundreds of women in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul marched through the city on Thursday, calling on the warring factions to reverse their previous decisions on their military plans and instead engage into the discussion for an immediate ceasefire to end the current bloodsheds. Addressing a gathering of at least 300 women in Kabul…