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Anadolu Agency
April 27, 2018
By Shadi Khan Saif. KABUL, Afghanistan. Afghan security forces have conducted multiple air and ground counter-terrorism offensives, killing 93 armed rebels over the past 24 hours across the country, an official statement said on Friday. In the statement, Afghan Ministry of Defense said the offensivesÃâà...
Anadolu Agency
April 25, 2018
By Shadi Khan Saif. KABUL, Afghanistan. In a blow to potential peace talks, the Taliban in Afghanistan on Wednesday have announced yet another annual spring offensive dubbed ''Al-Khandaq'' (trench). Zabihullah Mujahed, the Taliban spokesman, in a social media post cited four main "reasons", one ofÃâà...
Anadolu Agency
April 16, 2018
By Shadi Khan Saif. KABUL, Afghanistan. Afghan authorities on Monday handed over a Pakistani border guard and the dead bodies of five Pakistani troops who had been killed during clashes along the disputed Durand Line over the weekend. Speaking at a news conference in southeastern KhostÃâà...
Anadolu Agency
April 16, 2018
By Shadi Khan Saif. KABUL, Afghanistan. Afghan authorities on Monday handed over a Pakistani border guard and the dead bodies of five Pakistani troops who had been killed during clashes along the disputed Durand Line over the weekend. Speaking at a news conference in southeastern KhostÃâà...
Anadolu Agency
April 15, 2018
By Aamir Latif and Shadi Khan Saif. KARACHI, Pakistan/KABUL, Afghanistan. Two Pakistani troops were killed and five others injured during ongoing clashes along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan on Sunday, according to officials. Both sides accused each other of opening fire on their troopsÃâà...
Anadolu Agency
April 14, 2018
By Shadi Khan Saif. KABUL, Afghanistan. President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on Saturday called upon the Taliban to take part in the forthcoming district and parliamentary elections in the war-ravaged country. Launching the voters' registration process for the long-due polls, Ghani told the media at theÃâà...
Anadolu Agency
April 7, 2018
Authorities in Afghanistan on Saturday claimed to have killed the top regional commander for Daesh in northern Jawzjan province. Hanif Rezaee, spokesman for the Afghan army, told Anadolu Agency that the regional commander Qari Hekmatullah Ghayur along with one of his companions was killed in anÃâà...
Anadolu Agency
April 6, 2018
By Shadi Khan Saif. KABUL, Afghanistan. Pakistani premier made a breakthrough visit to capital Kabul on Friday where he discussed an “action plan for peace and reconciliation” with Afghan leaders, according to an official statement. Despite tense ties between the two countries amid allegations ofÃâà...
Anadolu Agency
April 3, 2018
By Shadi Khan Saif. KABUL, Afghanistan. The UN mission in Afghanistan on Tuesday announced it was investigating the bombing of a religious seminary by the Afghan military in northern Kunduz province Monday that reportedly left dozens of civilians dead. While the Afghan officials insist the air raid onlyÃâà...
Anadolu Agency
March 29, 2018
By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan. A group of local protesters in the restive Afghan province of Helmand on Thursday went on hunger strike, calling on the Taliban and the Kabul government to make peace. Saifullah Sarwaan, one of the organizers of the strike, told Anadolu Agency they want aÃâà...
Anadolu Agency
March 24, 2018
By Shadi Khan Saif. KABUL, Afghanistan. At least eleven people were wounded in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast close to a sit-in camp being held in solidarity with Pakistani protesters in capital Kabul Saturday, according to local media and an official. Afghan National Police spokesman BasirÃâà...
Anadolu Agency
March 24, 2018
By Shadi Khan Saif. KABUL, Afghanistan. Former Afghan Mujaheddin leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar on Saturday called on the government to provide "safe zones"' to the Taliban in a bid to encourage them to join peace process. Addressing a news conference at his party headquarters in Kabul, HekmatyarÃâà...
Anadolu Agency
December 31, 1999
By Shadi Khan Saif. KABUL, Afghanistan. At least six people were killed Sunday by an apparent suicide attack on a voter registration center in the Afghan capital Kabul, according to officials. Ministry of Public Health spokesman Waheed Majroh told local Tolo News that the death toll currently stands at six.
Anadolu Agency
December 31, 1999
By Shadi Khan Saif. KABUL, Afghanistan. An apparent suicide attack on a voter registration center in the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday has wounded at least seven people, an official confirmed. Humayon Mohtaat, head of the population census directorate, told Anadolu Agency that a registration office inÃâà...
Anadolu Agency
December 31, 1999
By Shadi Khan Saif. KABUL, Afghanistan. A district governor and 13 officials, including police officers, were killed in a Taliban attack in Afghanistan's central Ghazni province, officials confirmed on Thursday. Ramzan Ali, security director at the provincial police headquarters in Ghazni, told Anadolu AgencyÃâà...
