Afghanistan has arrested a 10-member Chinese module operating a terror cell in the capital city of Kabul, according to diplomats and security officials from the West Asian country. The crackdown has been a great embarrassment to Beijing, which has been trying to persuade the Ashraf Ghani government to silence the …
Read More »Multiple explosions shake Kabul, rockets land near embassy area ahead of Pompeo-Taliban meeting in Qatar
A series of loud explosions rocked central Kabul on Saturday, including several rockets that landed near the heavily fortified Green Zone where many embassies and international companies are located, authorities said. There were no immediate reports of casualties, but the explosions occurred in densely populated areas of the Afghan capital. …
Read More »Downtown Kabul hit by rocket barrage
A series of loud explosions rocked central Kabul on Saturday, including several rockets that landed near the heavily fortified Green Zone, where many embassies and international firms are located, authorities said. There were no immediate reports of casualties, but the blasts occurred in densely populated areas of the Afghan capital. …
Read More »Former Afghan TV host Yama Siawash killed in Kabul bomb blast: Police
Yama Siawash’s death prompted immediate condemnation from senior Afghan officials. (Figurative) Kabul, Afghanistan: A former Afghan television host and two other civilians were killed in a bomb blast in Kabul on Saturday, police said, in the latest violence to hit the city. Yama Siawash was killed when a bomb planted …
Read More »18 dead and 57 injured in suicide bombing in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul
The death toll from Saturday’s suicide attack in the Afghan capital has risen to at least 18 dead and 57 injured, including school children, the Interior Ministry said. The blast occurred in front of an educational center in a densely Shiite neighborhood in western Kabul, Dasht-e-Barchi. Interior Ministry spokesman Tariq …
Read More »Taliban special unit ambushes Afghan forces killing 34 during peace talks
A special unit of Taliban militants ambushed a convoy of Afghan security forces Tuesday night, killing 34 even as the insurgent group holds peace talks with the Kabul government to end the 19-year war. . The night attack by Taliban fighters, some armed with night vision goggles and laser-assisted rifles, …
Read More »UN Official Says Al-Qaeda Still Close To Taliban In Afghanistan
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has maintained close ties with the Taliban despite the Taliban’s assurances to the United States to sever ties with the group, a senior UN official said. “High-level figures remain in Afghanistan, as well as hundreds of armed operatives,” Edmund Fitton-Brown, coordinator of the United Nations monitoring …
Read More »Top Afghan peace negotiator Abdullah Abdullah is expected to visit India on October 6
Afghanistan’s top peace negotiator Abdullah Abdullah is expected to visit India on Oct. 6 as part of an outreach to key countries in the region seeking support for negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban, they said on Saturday. people familiar with the events. Abdullah, chairman of the Higher …
Read More »Afghan Vice President Amrullah Saleh attacked in Kabul, Haqqani network is prime suspect
Two days after Afghanistan’s First Vice President Amrullah Saleh raised the Durand Line issue and spoke of Peshawar as the summer capital of the Islamic Republic, the former intelligence chief was targeted by an improvised explosive device attack ( IED) in Kabul that left three of his bodyguards injured. , …
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