Tag: Afghanistan

Blasts tore through a Shiite mosque in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar during Friday prayers, killing at least 32 people and injuring 53 others.

The decision is believed to have been taken after the seizure of three tonnes of heroin at Mundra Port in Gujarat

A suicide bomber attacked a mosque in Afghanistan’s northeastern Kunduz province on Friday, killing scores of worshippers in the country’s third attack this week on a religious institution.

Hundreds of Afghans flocked to the passport office in Kabul on Wednesday, just a day after news that it would re-open this week to issue the documents, while Taliban security men had to beat back some in the crowd in efforts to maintain order.

Hours after the world expo fair opened in Dubai on Friday, Afghanistan's exhibition remained closed to visitors in a sign of the challenges facing the country's new Taliban rulers.

The US plans to keep Al-Qaeda in check in Afghanistan now that American troops have left Afghanistan with air strikes. Earlier, US President Joe Biden vowed that he would not allow a comeback of Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.

The Taliban are said to have hung the dead bodies of four alleged kidnappers in public in the western city of Herat in an apparent warning.

The Taliban have asked to address world leaders at the United Nations in New York this week and nominated their Doha-based spokesman Suhail Shaheen as Afghanistan's UN ambassador, according to a letter seen by Reuters on Tuesday.

Quiffs, mohawks, and crew cuts were hairstyles Nader Shah was accustomed to styling for image-conscious young men in Afghanistan's third-biggest city of Herat.

It’s decisions to ditch Ashraf Ghani in Afghanistan and negotiate the sale of nuclear subs to Australia behind France’s back, damage its credibility