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CE Abdullah Meets Pakistans President Afghanistans Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah on Wednesday met Pakistans President Mamnoon Hussain in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan.
According to a statement released by Abdullahs office, Pakistans President thanked Afghan government for its role in the killing of TTP leader Mullah Fazlullah... |
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NATO discussing funding for Afghanistanian forces beyond 2020: Stoltenberg NATO is discussing extension of funding for the Afghanistanian forces beyond 2020, chief of thesaid on Wednesday ahead of its defense ministerial meeting.
Jens Stoltenberg said that allies and partners are stepping up their commitments to Afghanistan with both forces and funding as he said that... |
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Criminal Incidents Increased in Kabul: Police Kabul police department confirms that in recent months, the criminal incidents have been in the city, stressing that it has arrested 82 individuals suspected of murder and car robbery in this regard.
Mohammad Daoud Amin, police chief of Kabul said that the murder and car robbery cases have been... |
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US Fails to Enforce Security Agreement: Senator A number of members of Meshrano Jirga (the Upper House of Parliament) on Sunday raised concerns regarding the security situation and said the United States is not doing enough to bring stability in Afghanistan.
The senators said based on the security agreement signed between Kabul and Washington,... |
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Govt Circles Facilitating Insurgent Attacks: MPs Following the insurgents attack on the Interior Ministry compound in Kabul on May 30, a number of Afghanistan parliamentarians said that certain elements within the government being responsible of facilitating the militants to launch attacks across the country.
The insurgents who carried out the attack... |
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IEC Prints 18 Million Stickers for Seven Million Voters Independent Election Commission (IEC) officials said Saturday that the commissions goal is to register between five and seven million voters, but that they have printed 18 million stickers to use if the number of voters goes up.
In the voter registration process, the election commission pastes the... |
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Haqqani Network Behind Attack On Interior Ministry The Ministry of Interior claims that their investigations show that Haqqani network was the main organizer of the attack on the new building of the security agency this week and that it claimed it under the name of Daesh.
The ministry admits that the militants got through a few security check points... |
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Hekmatyar Reacts to Calls for Renaming Afghanistan Back to Khorasan Gulbuddin Hekmatyar the leader of Hezb-e-Islami on Friday reacted against those people who have called for the name of Afghanistan to be changed back to Khorasan.
"Some individuals shamelessly say we dont accept the name of Afghanistan and want to change it to Khorasan. Khorasan is a province in... |
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Afghanistanian Shias Targeted In Deadly Attacks in Recent Years: Report In its annual 2017 Report on International Religious Freedom, the US Department of State said that in recent years, a series of deadly attacks were conducted on the Shia community in Afghanistan.
The report says that the majority of attacks were carried out by Daesh.
Meanwhile, Afghan government... |
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Attack On Interior Ministry Ends After 10 Gunmen Killed The attack on the new building of the Ministry of Interior of Afghanistan, on the airport road in Kabul, ended after almost two hours when 10 attackers were killed by government forces, a spokesman for the ministry confirmed. The attack started at around 12.15pm Kabul time when an explosion occurred... |
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UN Chief Urges Governments To Protect Civilians From Violence Speaking at a Security Council meeting on Tuesday, the United Nations Secretary General António Guterres urged governments to protect civilians from violence.
In turn he presented a report outlining three ways governments can step up action.
He noted that last year, more than 26,000 civilians... |
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US Drops Over 500 Bombs On Insurgents In April Statistics by the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) show that the US army has dropped 562 bombs on militant targets in Afghanistan during April.
In April, US army also brought back C-17 aircrafts on strike after a break of eight months.
"The terrorists announced an offensive named Khandaq and... |
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Despite presence of foreign troops, Daesh growing in Afghanistan Daesh Takfiri terrorist group is growing in Afghanistan as thousands of foreign troops have apparently failed to restore security 17 years after the United States and its allies invaded the country under the guise of the so-called war on terror.
Daesh, which has been... |
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Taliban Kills 14 Soldiers in Kunduz At least 14 Afghan National Army soldiers were killed and four others wounded in a Taliban attack in northern Kunduz province of Afghanistan last night, a local official said Thursday morning.
Safiullah Amiri, a member of the Kunduz provincial council told Ariana News that the incident has taken place... |
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US Says Theres No Need For New Fighting Season Acting US Secretary of State John Sullivan said the Talibans announcement Wednesday of their spring offensive underscored the groups "responsibility for the insecurity that destroys the lives of thousands of Afghans each year."
"There is no need for a new ‘fighting season," Sullivan said.
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NSA Asks China To Help Establish A Mountain Brigade National Security Adviser Haneef Atmar has wrapped up a three-day official visit to China where he held talks with a number of high-ranking officials, including Chinas Vice President Wang Qishan.
Atmar also met with Li Zuocheng, the Chinese Army Chief of Staff, and discussed a range of issues, including... |
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MPs Divided Over Move To Impeach NDS Chief The MPs move to impeach the National Directorate of Security Afghanistan, Masoom Stanekzai, last week has sparked sharp criticism by some lawmakers who said signatures gathered over the move had been "collected illegally".
"Mr Speaker, I hope that this session will not move towards a rift. Review... |
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There was already intl consensus on Karzai as Afghan leader before Bonn conference: Qanooni There was already international consensus on Hamid Karzai as Afghanistanian leader before Bonn conference on Afghanistan in 2001, former first vice-president Mohammad Younus Qanooni said Thursday.
Speaking at an event in Kabul, Qanooni, dismissed claims that Karzai was chosen all of a sudden at... |
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Border Forces CRU Commander Killed in Kandahar Blast The CRU commander was killed when a magnetic mine on his vehicle was detonated in Kandahar city.
Colonel Janan Mama, the commander of the Crisis Response Unit (CRU) for the Kandahar Border Police, was killed in an explosion early Wednesday, local security officials confirmed.
Three of his bodyguards... |
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MPs Decide to Impeach NDS Chief Stanikzai Lawmakers in the Lower House of Parliament of Afghanistan on Wednesday decided to impeach the chief of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) Mohammad Masoum Stanikzai on next Wednesday over a number of issues.
Speaker of the House Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi said the decision was made after 48 lawmakers... |
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Ready to resolve all issues with Pakistan through dialogue, says Ghani President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani says the Afghanistanian government is prepared to resolve all issues with Pakistan through negotiation on government-to-government level.
According to the Office of the President, ARG Palace, President Ghani made the remarks during a meeting with Britains High Commissioner... |
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Pakistan Agrees To Remove Check Posts On Afghanistanian Soil Afghanistanian and Pakistani military official held talks for the second time in just a few days to discuss "incursions by Pakistan" against Afghanistan along the Durand Line.
Clashes erupted between Afghan border forces and Pakistani military in Khost and neighboring Paktia provinces earlier this week.
At... |
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Indian ISIS recruits likely killed in Afghanistan airstrike A group of Indian nationals who were recruited by the militants in ISIS ranks have likely been killed in an airstrike in Afghanistan, it has been reported.
According to the Indian officials, reports regarding the killing of four ISIS recruits hailing originally from Kerala have emerged.
The police... |
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Taliban sought money not weapons from Russia, claims Kabulov he Russian Special Envoy for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov has rejected the allegations that Moscow was arming the Taliban group as he admitted contacts with the group was solely aimed at ensuring security of the Russian citizens and encouraging the group to participate in peace talks.
Speaking to reporters... |
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India to provide four Mi-24 helicopters to Afghanistan India will deliver four attack helicopters to Afghanistan ahead of spring fighting season in the country, Afghan envoy has reportedly said.
It follows an a trilateral agreement made between Afghanistan, Belarus and India for the refurbished Mi-24 helicopters earlier this month, Ambassador Shaida Abdali... |
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Tashkent Calls On Taliban To Embrace Peace Offer Senior diplomats and representatives of regional and Western countries have wrapped up a day-long conference here in Tashkent to call on the Taliban to lay down arms and embrace the peace offer made by the Afghanistanian government at the Kabul Process conference last month.
On Tuesday, delegates... |
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Ghani Meets EU Envoy On Sidelines Of Tashkent Meeting Afghanistanian President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday met with the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini on the sidelines of the Tashkent peace conference on Afghanistan, the Presidential Palace said in a statement.
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German Defense Minister Meets Afghanistanian Security Officials in Balkh Ursula Von Der Leyen, the defense minister of Germany and a number of the countrys Members of Federal Parliament visited Mazar-e-Sharif, capital city of Balkh province, yesterday and met with security officials of Northern Afghanistan.
How to support Afghanistanian security forces generally across... |
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Election: Over 900 Voting Centers Out of Governments Control In a total of 7355 voting centers across the country, 948 stations are out of governments control and with 1120 more under high-security threats, according to the estimation of security institutions.
Based on the estimation, 1122 polling stations are under relatively fewer security threats and the... |
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ISIS Suicide Bombers Target Shiite Mosque in Afghanistans Herat At least one civilian was killed and eight more injured after two terrorists attacked a Shiite mosque in Afghanistan on Sunday, in the latest assault against the Muslim minority.
ISIS terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack, which followed another blast that was claimed by the group in... |
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