Acting Defence Minister Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid has urged troops in the east to defend their motherland. The minister and the officials accompanying him visited the Durand Line in eastern Nangarhar province on Friday. A brief statement from the…
Acting Defense Minister Mullah Mohammad YaqoubMujahid has visited border posts in southwestern Nimroz province, an official said on Wednesday. Nimroz Information Department Director Mufti HabibullahElham told Pajhwok Afghan News Defence Minister Mullah Yaqoub at the head of a…
An overnight group attack near the residence of Defence Minister Gen. Besmillah Khan Mohammadi ended on Wednesday with the killing of four assailants.
Army Chief Gen. Yasin Zia has been appointed as acting Minister of Defence in compliance to Presidential decree, according to a statement on Friday. The statement said that Gen. Zia will lead the Defence Ministry Affairs until Defence…
Deputy spokesman for 209th Shaheen Military Corps Nasratullah Jamshid told Pajhwok Afghan News that German defence minister met Afghan security and NATO officials in Mazar-i-Sharif on Sunday. Afghanistan was still far from ready to take responsibility for its…
The defense minister and the chief of army staff on Monday said they resigned to respect the national interest and let younger cadres help improve the country’s security situation. The top military officials stepped down four days after…
Defence Minister Abdullah Habibi on Sunday said security forces in northern Kunduz province had been directed to launch a major operation against insurgents in the province. The minister, who paid a visit to Kunduz City, the provincial…
KABUL -- or the lower house of the parliament -- on Monday approved Abdullah Habibi as defence minister. The minister-designate was introduced to the assembly along with President Ashraf Ghani’s pick for the spymaster for a vote of confidence. Habibi…
Calling the bloodshed of Afghans in the name of jihad a project of foreign intelligence networks, Acting Defence Minister Masoom Stanikzai on Monday stressed the need for changes to Afghanistan’s offensive strategy in the war against Taliban and…
