Abdullah Pledges Probe Into Recent Attacks In Kabul

CEO Abdullah Abdullah has said government will launch an independent investigation into the recent attacks in Kabul and those who committed negligence in terms of not preventing the attacks will be prosecuted. He said the attorney general has already launched a probe into the issue - particularly into...

MPs Reject Govt Land Sale To Alokozay Company

Members of Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of Parliament) said at their Monday session that the land sale agreement between government and Alokozay Company had been in violation of the law. MPs rejected the contract involving 143 acres of government land, in Kabul, to Alokozay last winter. Wolesi Jirga speaker,...

Spain bracing for rising Catalonia tensions

Madrid is bracing for rising tensions over Catalonia's unilateral separatist drive, Spain's deputy prime minister says, just days after the northeastern region announced an independence referendum for October. Catalonia's pro-independence executive has insisted on holding the referendum...

Attorney General Sessions requests his testimony be public

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has requested that his testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee be open to the public. "The Attorney General has requested that this hearing be public. He believes it is important for the American people to hear the truth directly from him,” a Justice...

Iran beats Uzbekistan 2-0, gains entry to 2018 World Cup

Iran’s national football team has blanked Uzbekistan with two goals to be the second country that has booked tickets for the 2018 World Cup, scheduled to be held next summer in Russia. Carlos Queiroz's squad secured their place in the 2018 World Cup after the Monday night match in a fully-packed...

Norway proposes bill to ban full-face veils in schools

The Norwegian government has proposed a bill to parliament to ban full-face veils in all schools in the Nordic country. Minister of Education and Research Torbjorn Roe Isaksen said in a statement on Monday that the new measure would ban wearing niqabs as well as burqas, balaclavas and masks in nurseries,...

Pro-Trump Group Holds Anti-Islam Rallies Across the US

An extremist group in the United States, known for its support for President Donald Trump, has staged massive anti-Islam rallies across the country. ACT for America on Saturday held rallies to denounce sharia law, the Islamic legal and moral code that organizers claim poses a threat to American...

Iraq�s Kurdistan Referendum: Inefficacious Course

ISIS terrorist group's occupation of Iraqi territories in 2014 and the subsequent troubles that made the central Iraqi government busy coping with the security issues encouraged Kurds to hold independence referendum across their autonomous region in north. However, their efforts to establish an independence...

Kuwait says Qatar ready for talks as Bahrain moves to freeze assets

The Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry says Qatar is prepared to enter negotiations aimed at solving the diplomatic row with Arab countries as Bahrain’s central bank has issued orders freezing assets and bank accounts of Qatar-linked entities. Over the past week, Kuwait has been playing the role of...

Trump tells may he'd delay state visit over public protests: Report

US President Donald Trump has reportedly called UK Prime Minister Theresa May to inform her that he would not travel to Britain until nationwide public protests against the trip come to an end. The conversation took place over the past weeks and surprised May, who had invited Trump for a state...

Massive rally held in Barcelona in support of independence referendum

Tens of thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets of the Spanish city of Barcelona, the capital of the autonomous Catalan region, to voice their support for the Catalonia independence referendum called for October 1. The pro-independence demonstrators convened at Montjuic hill on Sunday,...

AGO Suspends Kabul Garrison Chief And Police Chief

The Attorney General's Office of Afghanistan (AGO) on Sunday announced that it has decided to suspend Gul Nabi Ahmadzai, the commander of Kabul Garrison and Kabul police chief Hassan Shah Frogh. This comes just days after Afghan police opened fire on protestors at a mass rally following a deadly...

Ghani Under Pressure To Bring Security Reforms, Review Policies

Former president and member of the Council for the Protection and Stability of Afghanistan, Sibghatullah Mujadidi, on Sunday warned government could collapse unless President Ashraf Ghani brings reforms to his policies. This comes just 10 days after a string of deadly attacks in the nation's capital...

Protesters Call On International Community For Support

Members of the Kabul protesters also known as "Uprising for Change" on Sunday said they have shared their demands with the European Union and the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and urged them to support their demands. The main demands of the protesters are to bring reforms...

President Ghani and Nawaz Sharif hold talks on key issues on SCO sidelines

President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani met the Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Astana, the capital city of Kazakhstan. The Office of the President, ARG Palace, said the leaders of the two nations held talks on key issues, including...

Britain in Turmoil after Conservatives Loose Parliamentary Majority

Britain has been plunged into political turmoil after the Conservative party lost crucial parliamentary majority as Brexit talks loom. Prime Minister Theresa May faces an uncertain future after her election gamble backfired with the opposition Labor Party, led by leftist Jeremy Corbyn performing much...

US sends mixed signals over Saudi spat with Qatar

US President Donald Trump and his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson have sent mixed signals over a rift between Qatar and its regional neighbors. Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, and several other countries cut off diplomatic ties with Qatar on Monday over allegations...

Iran says arrested 48 Daesh Wahhabi terrorists

Iran says that it has arrested nearly 50 members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group accross the country following recent twin terrorist attacks in Tehran. Following a series of sophisticated intelligence operations and with the cooperation of the families of some of the terrorists,...

Saturday Declared A Day Of National Mourning

President Ashraf Ghani has ordered Saturday a national day of mourning to honor the victims of the recent deadly attacks in Kabul, Khost and Heart provinces, the Presidential Palace said in a statement on Friday. The statement said the decision was made to express condolences with the families of those...

Ghani Calls For Joint Efforts Against Terrorism

Addressing the 17th conference of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in Kazakhstan's Astana city on Friday, President Ashraf Ghani called for joint efforts against terrorism and said those countries which differentiate between good terrorists and bad terrorists will pay the price for...

Afghanistan and China sign agreements on railway network, electricity projects

The Afghan and Chinese officials signed Memorandum of Understandings for the construction of railway network and implementation of electricity project. The Office of the President, ARG Palace, said the memorandums were signed in the presence of President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and his Chinese counterpart...

President Ghani, Pakistan�s PM Discuss Afghan Peace Process

President Ashraf Ghani met with Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on sidelines of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in Kazakhstan on Friday where they discussed the ongoing Afghan peace process among other mutual interest issues. According to Pakistani officials, Ghani and Sharif...

Faith as the Essence of Invitation of the Prophets

By: Ayatullah Muhammad Taqi Misbah Yazdi The subject of the discussion is: Faith as the Essence of the Invitation of the Prophets (‘a). In order to clarify the subject, its importance and the pertinent discussions to be made, we shall make a short introduction: Introduction The emergence of...

Turkey parliament approves troop deployment to Qatar

Turkey's parliament approves a measure to deploy troops to a Turkish military base in Qatar amid a widening rift between the Arab country and neighbors in the Persian Gulf region. The parliament approved the deployment on Wednesday with 240 lawmakers in favor, most of them from the ruling party...

Riyadh�s Regional Gamble May Result in Lose-Lose Situation

The four countries of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE, and Egypt on Monday morning announced severing diplomatic ties with Qatar, making the issue rise to be a number-one topic of focus of the regional and international media in the past two days. In addition to the leaders of the main four countries...

Daesh sponsors accomplices in Tehran�s twin terror attacks: IRGC

Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says those who have aided and abetted the Daesh terror group are accomplices in twin attacks claimed by the Takfiri group in the Iranian capital. In a Wednesday statement, the IRGC condemned the twin terror attacks in Tehran and blamed...

Rouhani: Iran to crush any enemy plots through unity, integrity

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has condemned Tehran’s twin terror attacks as “cowardly,” stressing the country will crush enemies’ plots through unity and integrity. “The Iranian nation … will prove once again that it will crush any plot or scheme by ill-wishers...

ISIS Claims Responsibility for Twin Attacks in Iran Capital; 12 Killed, 42 Injured

At least twelve people were killed and 42 were injured in two separate attacks against Iran’s Parliament and the Mausoleum of Imam Khomeini in the capital Tehran. people were killed, including parliament's guards and civilians, when four gunmen, holding AK-47 assault rifles and pistol,...

Sixth Sit-In Camp Established As Protests Continue Across Kabul

As part of their "Uprising for Change Campaign" protestors on Wednesday established their sixth camp at Shaheed Square in Kabul's PD10 area - closing the road to the Hamid Karzai International Airport. Despite their sit-ins being peaceful, these camps have created serious problems for Kabul's...

Jamiat Official Calls for Early Elections to Fix Current Crisis

A top member of Jamiat-e-Islami party, Ismail Khan, has called on the international community to stop funding the Afghan government saying it has failed to fix the deteriorating situation in the country and other issues of national interest. The statement comes just two days after acting foreign affairs...