President Ghani appoints new acting ministers for four ministries

President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has appointed acting ministers for the ministries of foreign affairs, finance, women’s affairs and trade and commerce. According to Bakhtar state news agency, citing a presidential decree, Mohammad Mustafa Mastoor has been appointed as acting finance minister,...

Suicide attack in Estiqlal high school leaves 1 foreigner dead

A suicide attack targeted a theatre show in Estiqlal high school in Kabul city this evening, leaving one foreign nation dead and ten Afghan civilians injured. Head of the Ministry of Interior, Gen. Ayub Salangi confirmed at least one person was killed and over 10 others were injured following...

Six MoD Personnel Killed in Kabul Suicide Attack

Six Ministry of Defense (MoD) personnel were killed in a suicide attack in Kabul early Thursday, the MoD said in a statement. Fourteen others were injured in the attack. The attack took place about 7a.m. in Tangi-Tarkhil area of Kabul after a suicide bomber detonated his explosive near a MoD's...

Palestinians to hold 3-day mourning for slain minister

Palestinians in the West Bank city of Ramallah are set to observe three days of mourning over the killing of a Palestinian minister by Israeli forces. On Wednesday, Israeli forces killed Ziad Abu Ein, who was in charge of the issue of Israeli settlements within the Palestinian Authority, in...

Global oil price fall political scenario: Rouhani

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has warned that the current drop in global crude prices is not simply an economic issue, but rather a political plot by some countries. “The fall in crude price is not merely an economic issue. Rather, it is caused by a plot and political planning...

President Ghani Condemns CIA Torture Tactics

The Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has strongly condemned the torture tactics by America's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) used to interrogate Al-Qaeda suspects since 9/11 attacks. The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday released a report of over 500 pages detailing the grotesque CIA...

Parliament Calls Mehsud Handover Violation of Afghan Sovereignty

The House of Representative on Wednesday denounced the U.S. decision to handover Latifullah Mehsud, Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan's (TTP) deputy leader, to Pakistan earlier in the week. They claimed the move was a clear breach of Afghanistan's sovereignty.Mehsud, the second in command of the...

Afghanistan World's Third Largest Opium Producer: UNODC

An annual report by the United Nations indicates Afghanistan as the third largest producer of opium after Myanmar and Laos, questioning the consumption of over $7 billion aimed at eliminating the phenomenon during the past 13 years.The United Nations Office of Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) have released...

US Justice Department interventions not stopping police violence

Over the last several years a number of police departments with histories of using lethal force against oppressed peoples have been subjected to civil rights investigations and consent decrees with the Justice Department. Nonetheless, violence by the police against the people has continued...

Millions of pilgrims flock to Iraq for Arba�een

Millions of people from across the world are taking part in a march toward Iraq's holy city of Karbala to attend mourning rituals on Arba’een, marking 40 days after martyrdom anniversary of the third Shia Imam Arba'een, which in Arabic means forty, falls on December 13 this year...

US police arrest 150 civil rights protesters in California

More than 150 people protesting against police brutality in the United States have been arrested in the state of California. On Monday night, the protesters in California and several other places denounced grand jury decisions not to indict white police officers in the shooting death of black...

Parts of Swedish airport evacuated over bomb threat

Several sections of Stockholm’s Arlanda International Airport have been evacuated following a bomb threat, airport and police officials say. The airport’s website released a statement regarding the threat on Tuesday. "Due to suspicions concerning a luggage, two of the piers…in...

Iran to provide 500 scholarships to Afghan students each year

The government of the Islamic Republic of Iran has promised to provide 500 scholarships each year to Afghans. Iranian officials have made this commitment in a meeting with Haji Mohammad Mohaqiq, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, during his visit to Tehran. Iranian officials also renewed their commitment...

No More Combat Mission Needed in Afghanistan: NATO

NATO senior civilian representative spokesman in Afghanistan, Christopher Chambers, stressed that there is no need for continued combat mission of the alliance in the country. In a joint press conference with the spokesman of Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Tuesday, Chambers declared that NATO would...

US used Afghanistan as testing battleground: Analyst

A political commentator says the US has used Afghanistan as a testing battle ground in order to advance its military agenda in other parts of the world. Rick Rozoff, the manager of the Stop NATO International Network, said in an interview with Press TV from Chicago that the United States used Afghanistan...

US police fire tear gas at protesters in California

US police have fired tear gas at demonstrators in northern California as unrest continues over police brutality and racial profiling across the United States.   In a bid to disperse peaceful protesters in Berkeley, police threw smoke bomb and fired tear gas at the crowd. Several protesters...

Two foreigners killed in rocket attack on Bagram

At least two foreigners have been killed in Afghanistan in a fresh rocket attack on the US-controlled Bagram air base, near the capital, Kabul. Local officials confirmed that Bagram air base, located next to the ancient city of Bagram in eastern Parwan Province, came under attack on Monday morning. The...

5 year old raped in Afghanistan

  Officials in northern Balkh province say a 5 year old girl was raped by a 20 year old man in Sholgar district on Sunday.   Security officials of the province state that the attacker has been arrested and is currently behind the bars. Father of the victim has threatened to kill all of...

The great lie of our time

As the US supports warlords in Ukraine, its absurd theories of democratization collapse into folly. In all International Relations (IR) classrooms throughout the English-speaking world, something called the democratic peace theory is taught. The theory holds that countries are less likely to go...

Militants launch rocket attack on US airbase in Afghanistan

Suspected Taliban militants have carried out a rocket attack on one of the biggest US-controlled military bases in Bagram, north of the Afghan capital city of Kabul. In a statement, NATO has confirmed that Bagram air base, located next to the ancient city of Bagram in the eastern Parwan Province,...

Shia Muslims heading to Karbala to mark Arba�een

Millions of Shia Muslims from across the globe are making their way toward the holy city of Karbala in Iraq to commemorate Arba’een. Arba’een marks 40 days after the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein (peace be upon him), the grandson of Prophet Muhammad and the third Shia Imam. Imam...

US drone strike kills 4 people in northwest Pakistan

At least four people have been killed and two others wounded in a US drone strike in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal region near the border with Afghanistan. Pakistan security officials say the attack was carried out on Sunday in the Khar Tangi area, about 45 kilometers west of the city...

Key Pakistani Taliban Leader Handed Over to Islamabad

The second top leader of Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Latif Mehsud, who was in the custody of NATO and Afghan security agencies, has been handed over along with three other members of the group to Pakistan's government, said Pakistan's Dawn News. But Nazifullah Salarzai, spokesman to...

Abdullah Discusses Taliban, Pakistan in Britain

While speaking at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in Britain, Abdullah Abdullah, the Chief Executive of the Afghan government, affirmed that Afghanistan's relations with Pakistan would be essential in coming to a durable solution for peace with the Taliban. Abdullah was in London this week...

Top al Qaeda leader killed in South Waziristan

    A senior al Qaeda militant was killed following an operation in South Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan, the Pakistani military said Saturday. The senior al Qaeda leader was identified as Adnan El Shukrijumah who was indicted in the US over a plot to bomb New York’s subway...

US Defense Secretary Arrives in Kabul

The outgoing US Defense Secretary, Chuck Hagel, has arrived in Kabul in an unannounced visit early Saturday and met the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) General Commander in Afghanistan Gen. John F. Campbell. Hagel, who resigned Nov. 24, will meet new President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive...

Kabul to receive USD 529mn worth of annual development aid from Germany

The German parliament voted on Friday to support Kabul with annual development aid worth USD 529mn. In a meeting with Afghan President Dr. Ashraf Ghani in Berlin, Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged to support Afghanistan’s unity government after withdrawal of the foreign troops by...

Another white police officer kills another black man in US

Another unarmed black man has been killed by a white police officer in the United States, amid nationwide protests over a spate of police killings of African Americans in the country. A Phoenix police officer fatally shot 34-year-old Rumain Brisbon on Tuesday evening. He died with two bullet...

Foreigners arrested with 3 million counterfeit Euros, Dollars in Kabul

At least five foreigners were arrested along with three million counterfeit Dollar and Euro currencies in capital Kabul. The Afghan Intelligence – National Directorate of Security (NDS) said the suspects were residents of Cameroon and were arrested in separate operations. A statement NDS...

Mexico police kill six drug cartel members

Six members of a Mexican drug cartel have been killed as police rescued two kidnap victims in a house in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz. Suspects of a criminal gang exchanged gunfire with members of an elite Mexican police unit during a raid on the house in the coastal city of Poza Rica,...