Russia and Iran have signed a comprehensive strategic partnership treaty, envisaging cooperation in different areas, including trade and military ties.

Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) officials have urged investors to transfer their industries and capital to Afghanistan and contribute to their country’s reconstruction.

Construction of a retaining wall and a canal have been completed at cost of 18 million afghanis and put into use in southern Ghanzi province, an official said on Thursday.

As many as 165 large and small factories initiated operation in western Herat province over the last nine months, an official said on Thursday.

An integrated transit trade management system (ITTMS) will be put in place at Torkham within three months.

Amid a surge in exports, industrialists in western Herat province have started exporting jam to the US, Canada and Kazakhstan, officials said on Thursday.

Police have collected dozens of drug addicts from the streets of Jalalabad city, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, and have transferred them to capital Kabul for treatment.

Three check dams have been constructed at a cost of nearly $220,000 in southern Helmand province, an official said on Thursday.

Afghanistan and Qatar have held discussions on issues including developments in the labour sector, Gulf Times reported.

Soon the Hamas-Israel ceasefire and hostage release deal, at least 30 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air airstrikes on Gaza, say media reports.

Construction work has been initiated on a large fish farm at a cost of 15.4 million afghanis in the capital of southeastern Khost province, an official announced on Thursday.

A parking lot has been built at a cost of 32 million afghanis at the customs department of northwestern Nimroz province, the Ministry of Finance (MoF) announced on Thursday.