Afghanistan: News
09 May 2018
Pakistan NewsTremors jolt Delhi, J&K, Pakistan after earthquake in Afghanistan
Tremors were felt across North India this afternoon including in Delhi-NCR and Jammu and Kashmir.
08 May 2018
TalibanAfghanistan FM meets Indian-envoy; assures safety, release of abducted Indians
Afghanistan's Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani has met new Indian envoy to the country Vinay Kumar and assured him that Afghan security forces will not spare any effort to ensure the safety and release of seven Indian engineers abducted by the Taliban gunmen in the restive northern Baghlan province.
07 May 2018
TalibanAfghan officials working with tribals to rescue abducted Indian engineers
Security officials in Afghanistan are working with local tribal elders to trace the seven Indian engineers abducted by the Taliban gunmen in the restive northern Baghlan province, media reports said today.
07 May 2018
Taliban5 police officers killed in Taliban attack in Kandahar province
At least five Afghan police officers have been killed in a Taliban attack on their patrol in southern Kandahar province, an official said.
06 May 2018
TalibanAfghanistan: Unknown gunmen kidnap 7 Indian engineers
Unknown gunmen abducted seven Indian engineers, and an Afghan driver, from Afghanistan's Baghlan province on Sunday.
30 Apr 2018
KabulTwo blasts in Kabul kill 21, including AFP photographer
Twin blasts in Afghanistan's capital Kabul, on Monday morning, killed at least 21 including AFP's chief photographer Shah Marai.
28 Apr 2018
IndiaIndia, China to undertake a joint economic project in Afghanistan
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping's two-day informal summit in the city of Wuhan has been historic for more reasons than one.
24 Apr 2018
WorldFor 10-years, this girl dressed as boy. The reason's heartbreaking
For more than a decade, Sitara Wafadar has been dressing as a boy, to make up for the son her parents never had.
12 Apr 2018
TalibanTaliban attacks Afghan district compound; at least 18 killed
Authorities on Thursday said that Taliban fighters attacked a government compound in central Afghanistan overnight which killed three district officials and 15 security forces.
18 Mar 2018
Pakistan NewsPakistan: 2 polio workers killed, 3 abducted from Afghan border
A Pakistani official said militants ambushed a seven-member medical team vaccinating against polio in Safi tehsil of Mohmand Agency on the border with Afghanistan, killing two workers and abducting three others.
14 Mar 2018
WorldOver 1.1 million Afghan women, children hooked on to drugs
Over 3 million people in Afghanistan are battling drug addiction. Of these 1 million are women and 0.1 million children under 10, reported Tolo News.
09 Mar 2018
ISISAfghan national who helped recruit Kalyan youths for ISIS killed
An Afghan national who helped four Kalyan youths join ISIS was shot dead in an encounter in Kabul last May, his wife's relative has confirmed.
02 Mar 2018
TalibanOne killed, several injured in Kabul blast
A blast in Kabul this morning has killed at least one and injured four, the Afghan government said.
24 Feb 2018
TalibanMultiple terror attacks strike Afghanistan leaving at least 24 dead
At least 24 people have been killed and several others injured in four different terror attacks in Afghanistan.
09 Feb 2018
IndiaTrump, Modi discuss Maldives, Afghanistan, Myanmar, N.Korea over a phone-call
In unheralded moves, US President Donald Trump has been tilting away from Pakistan. He has also been deepening ties with his other South Asian ally, India to counter an aggressive China in the sub-continent.
09 Feb 2018
United States of AmericaAfghanistan's first female coders take on the massive opium problem
A group of Afghan women has managed to break barriers and become the country's first female coders.
03 Feb 2018
Pakistan NewsWhy is China building an army base in Afghanistan?
China is quietly negotiating with war-torn Afghanistan to construct a military base in its remote and mountainous Wakhan Corridor.
30 Jan 2018
Pakistan NewsAfghanistan: Kabul hotel attacker trained by Pakistan spy agency ISI
In a shocking claim, Afghanistan's Permanent Representative to the UN, Mahmoud Saikal said that Pakistan's spy agency ISI trained the terrorist involved in the attack on Kabul's iconic Intercontinental Hotel.
27 Jan 2018
TalibanAfghanistan: Powerful suicide bombing kills 40 in Kabul; 140 injured
A powerful suicide bomb explosion in Afghanistan's capital Kabul has left at least 40 dead and another 140 injured in the city center.
27 Jan 2018
IndiaHamid Karzai: Trump must "walk the talk" on Pakistan's terrorism
Former Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai called upon US president Donald Trump to "walk the talk" about curbing Pakistan's support to terrorist outfits.
23 Jan 2018
Narendra ModiTrump mimics Modi when discussing Afghanistan: Washington Post
American President Donald Trump affected an Indian accent and mimiced Indian PM Narendra Modi when discussing Afghanistan in meetings, suggests a Washington Post report published on Sunday.
02 Jan 2018
IslamabadUS suspends $255mn aid to Pakistan hours after Trump's tweet
President Donald Trump has followed through on his words. Hours after accusing Pakistan of giving the US "nothing but lies & deceit", America has suspended a $255mn military aid to the Asian country.
02 Jan 2018
Osama Bin LadenReports: Osama bin Laden's grandson killed in airstrike
According to some reports, al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's 12-year old grandson Osama bin Hamza bin Laden was reportedly killed in an airstrike near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border around June-July 2017.
01 Jan 2018
US State DepartmentWhy do so many Afghans have birthdays on January 1?
What happens when generations of a country, born during a war, have no knowledge of their birth date?
28 Dec 2017
KabulKabul: Suicide blast targeting Shia center, news office kills 40
At least 40 people were killed and 30 injured in a suicide blast close to the offices of a Shia cultural center and the Afghan Voice news agency in Kabul.
27 Dec 2017
Pakistan NewsChina seeks to promote Pakistan-Afghanistan talks through CPEC
China announced its plan to extend the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor to Afghanistan.
09 Nov 2017
Donald TrumpNATO to scale up troop presence in Afghanistan
NATO recently conveyed that it intends on deploying 3,000 additional troops to Afghanistan.
30 Oct 2017
IndiaIndia ships first wheat consignment to Afghanistan via Chabahar
Even as tense US-Iran relations continue to cast a shadow over India's schemes for Chabahar, India shipped its first wheat consignment to Afghanistan via the port.
24 Oct 2017
IndiaTillerson in Afghanistan: Discusses US Afghanistan strategy, Pakistan and India
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson paid a short surprise visit to Afghanistan ahead of his visit to India and Pakistan.
24 Oct 2017
IndiaPutin sends envoy on Afghanistan to India in special outreach
Russian President Vladimir Putin's point-man on Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, recently visited New Delhi in a major regional security outreach, the Times of India reported.
20 Oct 2017
ISISAfghanistan: Attacks at two Shia mosques; at least 40 dead
Two separate terror attacks at Shia mosques in Afghanistan have claimed the lives of 40 people.
19 Oct 2017
TalibanAfghanistan: 43 soldiers killed in week's third attack on personnel
At least 43 soldiered were killed in a Taliban attack on a military base in Afghanistan's Kandahar province today.
17 Oct 2017
Taliban61 killed in two separate Taliban attacks in Afghanistan
At least 61 people were killed in two separate attacks by the Taliban in Afghanistan.
17 Oct 2017
TalibanUS Army sergeant once held captive by Taliban admits desertion
31-year-old Bowe Bergdahl, an American soldier once held captive by the Taliban in Afghanistan for five years, has pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
12 Oct 2017
Donald TrumpUS ramps up airstrikes in Afghanistan under new Trump strategy
US warplanes are conducting airstrikes on Afghanistan on a scale not seen since the height of the American troop surge in 2010.
10 Oct 2017
United States of AmericaDeteriorating security prompts Red Cross to "drastically reduce" Afghanistan operations
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will "drastically reduce" its presence in Afghanistan after suffering a series of deadly terror attacks which left seven of its staff dead.
29 Sep 2017
KabulSuicide bombing targeting Shiite mosque in Kabul kills 4
At least four people were killed and 20 others injured after a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Shiite Hussainia Mosque in central Kabul.
21 Sep 2017
IndiaPakistan: Won't accept Indian political or military role in Afghanistan
Pakistani PM Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has called for the implementation of the UN Security Council resolution on Kashmir.
