Tag: Afghanistan

The US will continue to support Afghanistan after withdrawing all US troops, but not "militarily," President Joe Biden has pledged.

Sticky bombs slapped onto cars trapped in Kabul’s chaotic traffic are the newest weapons terrorizing Afghans in the increasingly lawless nation, as Washington searches for a responsible exit after decades of war.

A mixture of overwhelming preoccupation with COVID, peoples' religious apprehensions and anti-US feelings is hampering polio control in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

At least 19 people were killed and 22 wounded Monday when militants stormed Afghanistan's biggest university in an attack that ended only after hours of fighting with security forces, officials said. "Three attackers were involved. One of them blew up his explosives at the beginning, two were brought down by the security forces," interior ministry spokesman Tariq Arian told AFP. ...

Kabul/ Jalalabad, October 21 (Reuters) - At least 15 Afghans were killed and more than a dozen injured in a stampede that occurred in an open ground where thousands of Afghans had gathered on Tuesday to secure visas from the Pakistan consulate in eastern Afghanistan, officials said on Wednesday. Sohrab Qaderi, a provincial council member in eastern Jalalabad city, where ...

New Delh, October 16 (Zee News) - Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday continued to flay the Centre over its handling of the COVID-19 situation in the country. While mentioning the projection released by International Monetary Fund (IMF) that the Indian economy is set to contract by a massive 10.3 per cent this year, Rahul Gandhi criticised the government by ...

August 27 (AFP) - Rescue workers in Afghanistan searched Wednesday for survivors of flash floods that killed more than 100 people and destroyed hundreds of houses near Kabul, officials said. Troops pulled dozens of victims from the rubble of collapsed buildings in Charikar, capital of Parwan province, after torrential overnight rains fuelled fierce floods that swept through the city. Officials ...

June 21 (India Today) - Afghanistan wicketkeeper-batsman Afsar Zazai survived a horrific car accident suffering minor head injuries on Saturday. The news of the car accident was broken by a local journalist and former media manager of Afghanistan cricket board M Ibrahim Momand. In a Twitter post, the journalist informed that Afsar did not suffer any serious injuries, however, his ...

June 13 (AFP) - Four people were killed after a blast ripped through a crowd during Friday prayers at a mosque in Kabul, Afghan officials said, in the latest attack on the city ahead of potential talks with insurgents. "Based on our initial information, at around noon explosives placed inside the mosque detonated during Friday prayers," interior ministry spokesman Tariq ...

Kabul, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Afghanistan’s minister of public health said on Monday the country had identified its first case of coronavirus. Ferozuddin Feroz, the minister of public health, told a press conference in Kabul one of three suspected cases had been confirmed in the Western province of Herat. He announced a state of emergency in the province, which borders ...