NATO to provide support to the Afghan security forces, with training, with advice and also with funding to make sure that the elections can be held in a safe way,The NATO alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said…
KABUL foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on the 27th of April (Friday), an alliance official said on Wednesday. “We have renewed our commitment, including with significant troop increases to our NATO-led Resolute Support Mission,” the official told Pajhwok Afghan News. The ministers…
NATO would help force them into peace talks. NATO’s Senior Civilian Representative (SCR) Cornelius Zimmermann expressed these views at a meeting with local officials in Lashkargah, the capital of southern Helmand province. He stressed over greater participation of…
KABUL forces over killing a school student with their military vehicle in the capital Kabul. The incident took place in Bibi Mehro area of Kabul Sunday afternoon. Yama, an eyewitness of the incident told Pajhwok Afghan News, “A vehicle of…
KABUL on Saturday. Nicholson made the remarks at a ceremony in Kabul where he praised foreign soldiers wounded in action. He said losing the fight against terror would be unacceptable and unimaginable. According to Nicholson, the fight against terror was important for Afghanistan and for the future of humanity. …
KABUL commander has welcomed the Independent Election Commission’s announcement of the long-delayed parliamentary elections. The poll panel says Wolesi Jirga and district council elections will be held on October 20, 2018 three years behind schedule. In a statement, the Resolute…
KABUL) in setting an October 2018 date to hold parliamentary and district council polls. “Setting a firm date for elections is a notably positive and important development and will allow progress from the formal planning stages to implementation,” said the…
KABUL insurgency. Speaking at NATO’s train and advise headquarters here, Nicholson told reporters on the eve of Nawroz, the first day of the new Afghan solar year, the NATO commander alleged Russia and Iran provided training, equipment and money…
KABUL from the current 13,000 troops to 16,000, the alliance chief said Thursday. Speaking at the launch of his Annual Report for 2017 in Brussels, Belgium, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said they had stepped up efforts to project stability…
KABUL’s senior civilian representative (SCR) says. In an exclusive interview with Pajhwok Afghan News, Cornelius Zimmermann made clear there can be no room for legitimate governance and no sustainable security outside the Afghan state. A German diplomat, who has served…
The Haqqani network commander said on Wednesday. “We still see there is a significant support, or at least provision of safe haven, to Haqqani network (in Pakistan),” General Petr Pavel, chairman of the NATO Military Committee, told the…
KABUL Resolute Support (RS) mission said on Tuesday. Crisis Response Unit 222, the Special Mission Wing, and Afghan Special Forces elements destroyed an estimated $8.7 million of Taliban narcotics during a nighttime raid in Khogyani district of Kandahar on Feb.…
KABUL’s Resolute Support Mission (RSM) commanders. Interior MinisterWais Ahmad Barmak met NATO’s joint operational commanderGen. Ricardo Marquez and RSM commander Gen. John Nicholson, the ministry said in a statement, “We have brought significant reforms to MoI and relevant organs, considering…
KABUL’s political leaders not to let politics undermine the security situation in the country. “We’re in this together. We’re fighting terrorism together and everyone wants a peaceful and prosperous Afghanistan to succeed,” Gen. John Nicholson said. In an exclusive interview…
KABUL rebels. Russia has claimed the number of Daesh fighters runs into the thousands in Afghanistan, but US and NATO forces top commander in Kabul Gen. John Nicholson said they were only 1500. Talking to reporters in Kabul on Saturday,…
A high-level NATO delegation visited Afghanistan from February 23 to 24 and reaffirmed their commitment to lasting peace in the war-torn country, the Resolute Support (RS) mission said on Saturday. Headed by Gen. General Curtis Scaparrotti, the supreme…
KABUL have to understand that they will never win on the battlefield urged them to come to the negotiating table and agree to a political solution. The secretary general was talking to media in a press conference on Thursday after…
KABUL. The secretary general expressed the view while addressing a press conference on Thursday after the NATO defence ministers meeting in Brussels, the capital of Belgium. When asked about recent media reports about China plan to establish a military base…
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says experience from Afghanistan shows that strengthening local forces is one of the best tools in the fight against terrorism. At least 28 allies and partners were increasing their troop contributions to the training mission in Afghanistan, he…
KABUL to destroy insurgent revenue sources, training facilities and support networks. “Over the past 96 hours, US forces conducted air operations to strike Taliban-led mission said. A statement from the Resolute Support Mission said the strikes also destroyed stolen Afghan…
KABUL will continue to stand with Afghans in the fight against terrorism and their struggle to build peace and reconciliation in their country, the secretary-general says. The alliance stood in sympathy and solidarity with Afghanistan and paid tribute to the…
KABUL will continue to stand with Afghans in the fight against terrorism and their struggle to build peace and reconciliation in their country, the secretary-general says. The alliance stood in sympathy and solidarity with Afghanistan and paid tribute to the…
KABUL and children. The attack, claimed by the Islamic State group, involved multiple blasts, leaving at least another 30 people injured in Pul-i-Sokhta neighborhood of Kabul, officials told Pajhwok Afghan News. Dozens of people, 17 media representatives and a number…
KABUL, the alliance chief says. “In Afghanistan we have transitioned from combat operations to the training and advising of local Afghan forces,” the secretary-general was quoted as saying by the Pentagon. Jens Stoltenberg, speaking to students at a Paris university,…
