Khawaja Nasir Ahmad Sidiqi

Afghan Air Forces (AAF) has hit and destroyed a car bomb-in-waiting in central Maidan Wardak province, Ministry of Defence said on Monday.

The deputy governor of Kabul and his secretary were killed and two of his bodyguards wounded in a blast in the 9th police district of the capital city on Tuesday morning.

First Vice President Amrullah Saleh said on Monday that police had arrested notorious robber Nasim Sag.

Two suspected killers of a minor girl were arrested in Kabul on Saturday, an official said.

A district police chief has been killed during an operation against criminals in Kabul, an official said on Saturday.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Ariana News presenter Faridin Amini died on Friday under mysterious circumstances. Police and Amini’s colleagues confirmed the journalist’s death but offered no details.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) and US forces in Afghanistan on Tuesday rejected a Brown University’s report that claimed about 700 Afghan civilians were killed in airstrikes by US and allies last year.

Over 130 civilians were killed and 342 others wounded in the Taliban attack in the past one month, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said on Thursday.

Four Taliban militants involved in targeted killings and planting bombs have been arrested in Kabul, the Ministry of Defence said on Tuesday

Four people were injured as a result of magnetic bomb blast in Kabul on Wednesday morning.

In a veiled reference to former Balkh governor Atta Mohammad Nur, First Vice President Amrullah Saleh on Tuesday said he was aware about the massive corruption at the Hairatan Port.

The security forces have regained control of the Maymai district of northeastern Badakhshan province as a result of an operation against the Taliban, the government claimed on Sunday.