Kabul, October 18 (IANS): A country-wide polio vaccination drive will begin in Afghanistan on November 8 for the first time since the Taliban took over the country in August, the Unicef announced on Monday
Kabul, October 8 (IANS): A suicide bomber has targeted a mosque in Afghanistan's Kunduz city during Friday prayers, killing at least 50 people, officials said.
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Washington, October 7 (PTI): America's humiliating troop withdrawal from Afghanistan resulting in the Pakistan-backed Taliban capturing power in Kabul has created an extremely dangerous situation in South A
KABUL, OCTOBER 5 (IANS): The Taliban-led government of Afghanistan made an important claim of making the country narcotics-free with a complete ban on drug trade. However, with dried up foreign aids, widespread
Kabul, October 4 (AP): Taliban forces raided an Islamic State affiliate's hideout in the Afghan capital and killed several insurgents, hours after a deadly bombing outside a mosque in Kabul, the Taliban sai
Kabul, October 4 (AP): Taliban forces raided an Islamic State affiliate's hideout in the Afghan capital and killed several insurgents, hours after a deadly bombing outside a mosque in Kabul, the Taliban sai
Kabul, October 3 (AP): A bomb exploded in the entrance of a mosque in the Afghan capital on Sunday, leaving "number of civilians dead , a Taliban spokesman said, in the first major attack on the city after
UNITED NATIONS, SEPTEMBER 24 (IANS): The reach of humanitarian aid in Afghanistan is increasing since the Taliban took over the country last month, but only a fraction of the people have enough to eat, a UN spo
Kabul, September 21 (AP): The Taliban expanded their interim Cabinet by naming more ministers and deputies on Tuesday, but failed to appoint any women, doubling down on a hard-line course despite the internatio
BY SAEED NAQVI
IANS | September 19
What could possibly be common between the Taliban brandishing their weapons in Kabul and Palestinians twirling their spoons (yes, teaspoons) with a flourish? Well, the lat
Kabul, September 19 (AP): Female employees in the Kabul city government have been told to stay home, with work only allowed for those who cannot be replaced by men, the interim mayor of Afghanistan's capita
Kabul, September 18 (AP): Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers set up a ministry for the propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice" in the building that once housed the Women's Affairs Ministry,
Kabul, September 9 (AP): Reminiscent of their previous harsh rule in the 1990s, the Taliban have already begun to wipe out some of Afghanistan's gains of 20 years. They've denied women a seat at the Cab
Peshawar/Kabul, September 9 (PTI): Afghanistan's acting Prime Minister Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhund has appealed to former officials of past governments to return to the country and assured them "full
Kabul, September 7 (AP): The Taliban on Tuesday announced a caretaker Cabinet that paid homage to the old guard of the group, giving top posts to Taliban personalities who dominated the 20-year battle against t
Kabul, September 7 (IANS): After the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, international aid, which evidently constitutes and caters to all basic facilitations of the country, has been suspended, leaving the cou
Kabul, September 6 (AP): At least four planes chartered to evacuate several hundred people seeking to escape the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan have been unable to leave the country for days, officials s
Kabul, September 5 (AP): Afghanistan's Taliban rulers resumed some domestic passenger flights to and from Kabul on Sunday, as the religious militia's fighters stepped up an assault on the last remaining
Kabul, September 4 (IANS): The fate of Afghanistan's Panjshir Valley - the final holdout against Taliban control - hangs in the balance as heavy fighting continues. Even as the Taliban claimed that it has t
Kabul, September 3 (IANS): Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar is set to lead a new Afghan government likely to be announced shortly, sources in the Islamist group said on Friday.
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