Hekmatyar Expected In Kabul Within Next Three Weeks

Amin Karim, head of Hekmatyar’s Hizb-e-Islami’s negotiations delegation on Tuesday said their leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar is currently on the battlefields in Afghanistan but is expected to arrive in Kabul in the next couple of weeks.   “Our Mujahid brother is in Jihad strongholds....

Abdullah arrives in Helmand amid deteriorating security situation

The Chief Executive of the Government of National Unity Abdullah Abdullah has arrived in Helmand as the province has been witnessing fierce clashes during the past two days. The Office of the Chief Executive confirmed his arrival in Helmand as he leads a high level delegation to meet with the local...

Afghanistan A wins series against Zimbabwe A with third consecutive victory

The Afghanistan A cricket team secured their third consecutive win against Zimbabwe A in a 5-match unofficial One International series. The Afghan A team defeated Zimbabwe A team by 20 runs during the third match of the series. With Zimbabwe winning the toss and electing to field first, the Afghanistan...

Trump signs executive order for Mexico wall

US President Donald Trump has signed a directive to begin the construction of a wall on the border with Mexico, taking the first step to deliver on one of his most divisive campaign pledges. “We've been talking about this right from the beginning,” the Republican president said...

MoI To Implement AGO's Order Against Dostum Guards

The Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Wednesday said they have received the Attorney General’s letter regarding the arrest of First Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum’s guards and police are ready to cooperate with the AGO in this respect. The Interior Ministry’s spokesman Sediq...

Taliban earn $4.8 million annually from Kajaki Dam

The Taliban militants group earn around $4.8 million annually from Kajaki dam located in the restive southern Helmand province of Afghanistan. The provincial council officials have said the group earns almost 90 per cent of the income of the dam on yearly basis. Majid Akhunda, deputy provincial council...

36 ISIS militants killed, 20 wounded in South of Afghanistan

At least 36 loyalists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed and around 20 others were wounded during the operations in southern Zabul province of Afghanistan. The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the militants were killed or wounded during the operations in Khak-e-Afghan...

Astana meeting; is peace negotiable?

Kazakh capital is hosting one the most controversial peace talks since the international efforts started for bringing back the stability to Syria. Russia, Turkey and Iran agreed upon an agenda to help settle the Syrian crisis earlier in a trilateral meeting held in Moscow on December 20 and the...

Astana Talks: Conceding to Assad�s Power, Stay

The Syrian peace meeting in Astana, Kazakhstan, struggled to put an end to the Syrian crisis altogether, and lay the foundation of a new Syria. But the participating sides of the meeting and the countries that support the warring sides have their own conflicting opinions and pursued establishment...

Recent Afghanistan Bombings Muscle-Flexing from Taliban: Analyst

Recently, an array of explosions rocked different regions in Afghanistan, raising the hackles of the domestic and international sides over continuation of insecurity and its effects on Afghanistan’s fragile stability and security. The very latest blast took place less than a week ago near a...

Russia could miss 2018 Paralympic Winter Games, says IPC chief

The president of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) says Russian athletes could remain banned for the twelfth edition of Paralympic Winter Games, which are scheduled to be held between March 9 and 18 next year in South Korea.  “I don't know and I don't think many...

New Genetic Engineering Technique Could Help Design, Study Biological Systems

A new technique will help biologists tinker with genes, whether the goal is to turn cells into tiny factories churning out medicines, modify crops to grow with limited water or study the effects of a gene on human health. The technique, published Jan. 20 in Nature Communications, allows scientists...

Searching for Life on Wolf 1061 Exoplanet

Astronomers have located the habitable zone, the region where water could exist on the surface of a planet, on the Wolf 1061, a planetary system that is 14 light years away from our Earth. The question of whether Earthlings are alone in the universe has puzzled everyone from biologists and physicists...

India bans all forms of disposable plastic in its capital

India's National Green Tribunal (NGT) has introduced a ban on all forms of disposable plastic in the capital Delhi in order to combat growing pollution. The ban, which came into effect at the beginning of January, prohibits the use of cutlery, bags, cups and other forms of single-use plastic...

16 killed in Hungarian school bus crash in northern Italy

Sixteen people have been killed when a bus transporting Hungarian students crashed in northern Italy. The bus was traveling from France to Hungary on Saturday when it crashed. More than two dozen people were also injured. The bus was carrying the students home from a school ski trip to France....

Italy police recover Van Gogh�s stolen paintings after 14 years

Italian police in Naples have found two masterpieces by Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh that were stolen during a dramatic raid on an Amsterdam museum 14 years ago. The two paintings were recovered from the Naples mafia as part of an operation against the Camorra group operating around the southern...

Mashhad named cultural capital of Muslim world

The holy city of Mashhad in northeastern Iran has been officially introduced as the “cultural capital of the Muslim world” for the Asia region for 2017. In 2011, the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO), which is associated with the Organization of...

Photos: Protests around world following US presidential inauguration

Thousands of people have staged protest rallies across the world to express their deep displeasure at Donald Trump, who was sworn into office at an inauguration ceremony in Washington, DC, and officially became America's 45th president on Friday. Similar protest rallies turned violent...

Sixty percent of refugees in Iran become educated: Official

An Iranian official says the figure for the refugees in the country, who have received proper education, stands at 60 percent, 48.5 percent of whom are females. This is good cultural news, the managing director of Iranian Interior Ministry's Bureau for Aliens and Foreign Immigrants (BAFIA),...

Family stumbles on Caravaggio painting worth $137 million in attic

Imagine you have to go to the attic to fix a persistent leak and you stumble on a Baroque masterpiece that turns out to worth more than $137 million. This is what happened to a French couple two years ago when they found a Caravaggio while attending to a leaky roof. "They had to go through the...

�Look of Silence� named best 2015 documentary

The International Documentary Association (IDA) has named ‘The Look of Silence’ by American filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer as the best documentary of 2015. The film received the prize for best feature at the 31st annual IDA Documentary Awards ceremony held in Los Angeles, US. ‘The...

Michelangelo�s Moses statue unveiled after cleanup

Michelangelo’s famous statue of Moses has been unveiled in Rome after undergoing yet another renaissance. Restorers revealed a freshened up statue of Moses sculpted by the famous Italian artist for the tomb of Pope Julius II at the Church of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome. The unparalleled...

Afghan Women�s Orchestra Wins Freemuse Award

Afghanistan’s first and only women’s orchestra, Zohra, has been awarded the Freemuse Award 2017.   The orchestra is comprised of a group of students from the National Institute of Music (ANIM) in Kabul.   The Afghanistan music industry is currently facing tremendous challenges ...

Looted Bowl Returned To Kabul Museum

A British couple has handed over a 17th-century treasure that they bought in Saudi Arabia after it was found to have been looted from a museum in Afghanistan. According to the UK's Sunday Times newspaper, Patrick von Aulock was shocked find out that an engraved copper bowl he and his wife, Paola,...

Herat Ladies Turn To Facebook To Sell Their Products

A Herat woman has created a Facebook Group through which other women are able to sell their handicrafts and unused goods. The group was created by the woman nine months ago, and according to members of the group, the page has generated over $1.5 million USD in the past nine months. The group...

Selfie leads to mental health issues

By: Asad Ziar Selfie is a selfportrait photograph, typically taken with a digital camera or smartphone held in the hand or supported by a selfie stick. Selfies are often shared on social networking services such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Most selfies are taken with a camera held at arm’s...

Afghanistan to profit $1 billion annually for transit from TAPI pipeline

Afghanistan will get more than $1 billion in profit only from the transit of Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline once the project kicks off, it has been reported. Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov quoted by Trend News agency has said “More than 12,000...

Trump vows support to help unearth Afghanistan�s massive natural resources

The president-elect of the United States Donald Trump vowed support under his upcoming administration to help unearth Afghanistan’s massive natural resources which include some of the world’s rare earth elements. Trump made the commitment during a tlelphone conversation with the Afghan...

Tiles factory in Mazar city to resume production with India�s support

The tiles factory in northern Mazar-e-Sharif city will resume production in the near future as the project to resume the operations of the factory is close to conclusion with the support of India. The Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan Manpreet Vohra informed regarding the finalization of the project...

Draft Agreement Finalized to Link Afghanistan with Black, Mediterranean Sea

The draft agreement for Lazuli route was finalized between Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey to link Afghanistan with Black and Mediterranean Sea. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) said the draft agreement was finalized during a meeting at the ministry of transport...