KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): A car bomb targeting a police post in the Panjwai district of southern Kandahar province has been destroyed before reaching its target,

KABUL (Pajhwok): Unidentified gunmen shot dead the administrative head of the Central Statistics Organisation (CSO) in the Paghman district of Kabul on Wednesday morning, security

PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): The situation in Afghanistan is high on the agenda as top Pakistani and Russian diplomats meet in Islamabad today (Wednesday). Russian Foreign Minister

KABUL (Pajhwok): The US special envoy for Afghanistan reconciliation has communicated the upcoming Istanbul Summit’s date and agenda to the peace negotiating teams. In a

PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): Russia hopes the March 18 meeting of the extended ‘Troika’ in Moscow will give an impetus to intra-Afghan peace negotiations. Russian Foreign Minister

Vice-President Amrullah Saleh announced on Wednesday the arrest of an 11-member Taliban group that killed Yama Siawash and was involved in targeted killings and IED attacks.

KABUL (Pajhwok): President Ashraf Ghani says he has undergone prostate operation at the Shahid Sardar Mohammad Dawood Khan Hospital in Kabul. The president tweeted on

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Two civilians were killed and 18 others, including three policemen, wounded as a result of an explosion in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern

SHIBERGHAN (Pajhwok): Turkmen tribesmen in Shiberghan city, the capital of northern Jawzjan province, during a protest rally on Tuesday called on the government to include

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Four Afghan Local Police (ALP) personnel and nine Taliban have been killed and several others wounded as a result of clashes in eastern

FARAH (Pajhwok): Unidentified gunmen opened fire at a condolence ceremony in Farah province on Monday evening, killing one and injuring eight others, an official said

AIBAK (Pajhwok): Police chief for northern Samangan province Col. Abdullah Gard distributed 275,000 afghanis each to 25 families of disabled and fallen and injured .