Russia has granted Syria’s former President Bashar Assad and his family asylum, says a media report.

The Biden administration has unveiled a new $988 million security assistance package for Ukraine.

A month-long football tournament, featuring eight teams, has concluded in central Uruzgan province, with Youth Team emerging victorious.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Afghanistan says a woman was among five convicts punished publicly in central Kapisa province.

A man has been arrested by security forces for allegedly killing a youth in central Panjsher province, the provincial Information and Culture Directorate said on Saturday.

Local officials in northeastern Badakhshan province say restoration work has been completed on the tomb of Hakim Nasir Khesraw Balkhi in the Yamgan district.

At least three people, including a woman, have been killed and 11 others wounded in three separate traffic accidents in southern Ghazni and northern Faryab provinces, officials said on Saturday.

Afghanistan has extended an agreement on importing electricity from Turkmenistan until the end of 2025, the power utility announced on Saturday.

The imposition of the infrastructure development cess (IDC) by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on exports to Afghanistan under the Transit Trade Agreement (TTA) is a violation of the Geneva Convention, says Kabul.

The European Union (EU) has contributed €15 million to the World Food Programme (WFP) to build Afghan communities’ resilience and mitigate climate crisis impacts.

Spending their own money, residents of Khinjan district of northern Baghlan province have constructed a brigade and a road at a cost of 3.5 million afghanis.

The United Nations (UN) is launching an alternative crop project in southern Kandahar and Helmand provinces to replace poppy cultivation.