Explosion near Attorney General Office in Kabul

An explosion was heard in the vicinity of Dar-ul-Aman road in the western part of Kabul city earlier today. The blast has reportedly taken place due to an magnetic bomb planted in a vehicle of the Afghan police. A security official confirmed that the blast targeted a vehicle of the Criminal Investigation...

North Korea executed its defense minister on treason charges

North Korea has publicly executed its defense minister Hyon Yong Chol on treason charges. Yonhap, a South Korean media outlet citing Seoul’s National Intelligence Services reported on Wednesday that Yong Chol was executed by firing-squad with an anti-aircraft gun in front of hundreds of people. The...

Yemen�s Houthi fighters bring down Saudi fighter jet: Report

Houthi Ansarullah fighters in Yemen have shot down a Saudi fighter jet violating the country’s airspace in the northern Sa’ada Province, a report says. Ansarullah fighters brought down the fighter jet in the Noshour Valley in Sa’ada on Monday, Yemen’s al-Massirah television...

Kidnappers release 19 hostages out of 31 abducted in Zabul

Kidnappers have released 19 hostages out of the group of 31 they abducted about two months before in southern Zabul province. Heads of the provincial councils of Zabul and Ghazni provinces who are mediating the release say that the 19 hostages were set free this morning. Khaliqdad Akbari, head of...

Obama lying about Osama bin Laden�s death: US investigative journalist

US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh says President Barack Obama’s narrative of the killing of former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was false. In an article published on the London Review of Books website on Sunday, Hersh wrote that high-level lying “remains the modus operandi...

Alien life may exist on Saturn�s Enceladus, scientists say

Life could exist or could have formerly existed on Saturn’s sixth-largest moon Enceladus, scientists say. The pH level of Enceladus, which reveals the amount of water acidity -- a key parameter to understanding geochemical processes taking place inside the moon – can be tolerated by a...

Military Operation Launched to Retake Control of Badghis's Jawand

Military forces have launched an operation in Jawand district western Badghis to retake control of the district after insurgents attacked the area Saturday night, local officials said. Taj Mohammad Jahid, the commander of the 207th Corps of the Afghan National Army (ANA) in western Afghanistan said...

Afghans stage anti-US protest, call for withdrawal of all American forces

Afghans have staged a rally in the eastern Parwan Province to protest against the presence of US forces in their country The protesters on Thursday chanted anti-US slogans and called for the quick withdrawal of all US forces from Afghanistan. The protests came after US forces wounded an Afghan civilian...

Chapel Hill man shot Muslim students in head, autopsies show

A middle-aged white man charged with the killing of three American Muslim students in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in February, shot the victims in the head, autopsy reports reveal. Craig Hicks shot dead Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, his wife Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, 21, and her sister, Razan Mohammad...

Female Afghan students win gold medals in a biology competition in Kenya

Three female Afghan students brought home gold medals after participating in a competition scientific competition in Kenya. The competition was hosted in Kenya which was attended by around 300 students from 27 countries around the world. The winners of the competition who returned to Afghanistan said...

35 Taliban Militants Killed in Zabul Passenger Rescue Operation

At least 35 Taliban and Pakistani militants were killed and 25 wounded in a security force operation in Zabul in search of the 31 bus passengers, local officials said Thursday. Zabul provincial acting-governor Ashraf Nasiri said that the operation was conducted in the Khak Afghan district to rescue...

Kabul court sentences 4 to death over mob killing of woman

A court in Afghanistan has sentenced four men to death over involvement in a recent mob killing of a woman falsely accused of burning a copy of the Holy Qur’an. The Primary Court in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Wednesday also sentenced eight people to 16 years in prison, while 18 others were...

Lionel Messi fires late brace as Barcelona beat Bayern Munich

Lionel Messi fires late brace as Barcelona beat Bayern Munich    Bayern Munich    FC Barcelona Champions League semi-final first leg, Nou Camp - Barcelona 3 (Messi 77, 80, Neymar 90+4) Bayern Munich 0 Lionel Messi ensured it was a nightmare return...

Support for Saudi aggression further disgraces US: Leader

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has called Saudi Arabia’s ongoing aggression against Yemen as unjustifiable, saying that the United States is "shamelessly" backing the atrocities of Saudi Arabia against its impoverished southern neighbor. “The Saudi...

Saudi war on Yemen has failed: Hezbollah chief

Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement, says the Al Saud regime has failed to achieve its goals in its brutal military aggression against the Yemeni nation. “Tell me about a single objective that has been achieved. Has Saudi Arabia restored...

Oil prices up as market struggles to remain strong

Oil prices have grown as the market struggles to build on last months’ strong gains, following sharp falls earlier in the year. North Sea Brent crude for delivery in June traded $59.49 a barrel, up 56 cents, while US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) won 56 cents to $59.49 a barrel on...

Iran to produce US-, Europe-licensed drugs

Iran will open a production line for branded generic drugs licensed by European and American companies on Thursday, a local formulator says.  The plant in Saveh, about 100 km southwest of Tehran, has been built with $8 million of investment, CEO of Behestan Pharmaceutical Co. Mehdi Balochestani...

Two people killed, guard shot in Texas

Two people have been killed and a security guard shot and injured outside a contest for physical depictions of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in Garland, Texas, the United States, reports say. The incident happened on Sunday night outside a building where an anti-Islamic group, American Freedom Defense...

Baltimore holds victory rally after mayor lifts curfew

Thousands of people have staged a victory rally in the US city of Baltimore after the mayor announced to lift curfew which was imposed following violent protests over the death of Freddie Gray in police custody. "I have rescinded my order instituting a city-wide curfew. I want to thank the people...

1000s of migrants rescued in Mediterranean: Italy

Italy says thousands of migrants have been rescued  over the weekend in the Mediterranean off the coast of Libya amid a surge in the number of people crossing the sea. The Italian coastguard and navy said on Sunday that some 4,800 migrants were saved over the weekend and 10 bodies...

UK may impose internet rationing as electricity depletion looms

Britain could face mandatory internet rationing as web electricity consumption threatens to consume the country’s entire power supply, experts warn.      Internet rationing or increasing costs in order to update infrastructure might be required, otherwise fiber optical...

Government, Taliban discussed ceasefire in Qatar

The Afghan government and Taliban delegations that are in Qatar discussing initiatives to end the over a decade long Afghan war are talking ceasefire. Reuters news agency reports that on the second day of their meeting the delegations talked about announcing a possible ceasefire but did not reach...

1st phase of Saudi war on Yemen killed 951: Health Ministry officialsst Yemen

Yemen’s Health Ministry has announced that a total of 951 people,died and 3,943 others were wounded in the nearly month-long first phase of the Saudi military aggression against Yemen. Among the dead are 143 children and 95 women.  A spokesman for the Yemeni Health Ministry announced the...

ISIS (Daesh) rejects involvement in Jalalabad suicide attack

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group has denied involvement in the deadly suicide attack in Jalalabad – the capital city of Nangarhar province of Afghanistan. A spokesman for the terror group in Afghanistan Sheikh Muslim Dost has ruled out the group’s involvement...

ISIL leader Baghdadi hiding in al-Ba�aj in northern Iraq: Report

A recent report has uncovered the location of ISIL Takfiri terrorist leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, saying he is hiding in a town in Iraq’s northern Nineveh province. "Baghdadi is understood to have been spending much of his time in al-Ba’aj," said a report published in the Guardian...

60,000 Afghan Police Are Illiterate

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have stated that statistics show Afghanistan security institutions are struggling with the issue of illiteracy among its staff – especially those in the police force. According to UNESCO, about 70 percent of police...

Over 225,000 people under ISIL siege in Syria�s Deir Ezzor

Takfiri ISIL terrorists have over 225,000 Syrians under siege in just one city in the crisis-hit Arab country, a new United Nations (UN) report says. The people are besieged in the western neighborhoods of Syria's eastern city of Deir Ezzor, said UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his last...

Russia backs immediate lifting of anti-Iran sanctions

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has supported an immediate lifting of all “unlawful” sanctions against Iran as a  result of a possible final deal over Tehran's nuclear program.    In an interview with the Argumenty i Fakty Russian weekly, Lavrov hailed...

Riyadh declares end to Decisive Storm phase in Yemen

Saudi Arabia has declared the end of Decisive Storm operation against Yemen, and announced the beginning of a new phase dubbed Operation Restoring Hope, Saudi state TV says. Saudi Arabia has “ended Operation Decisive Storm based on a request by the Yemeni government,” and fugitive former...

Suspects in MoD Fuel Contract Scandal Distance Themselves

Abdul Hady Arghandiwal, the former minister of economy, has been accused of corruption related to his role as a member of the Special Procurement Commission presiding over the now infamous Ministry of Defense (MoD) fuel contracting process. On Tuesday, while he did not deny that corruption existed...