Security officials on Saturday said gunmen loyal to the Islamic State (IS) group would be defeated like the Taliban insurgents in northern Afghanistan. They made the assertion at a ceremony marking the nationwide transfer of security responsibility from…
A Taliban commander has been detained and an arms dump seized in northeastern Kunduz and Badakhshan provinces, officials said on Thursday. Kunduz police chief, Brig. Gen. Abdul Saboor Nasrati, told Pajhwok Afghan News Mullah Abdul Ghayr, the…
An explosives-laden car ready for use in a suicide attack and a rocket strike were foiled in the capital Kabul on Thursday, the National Directorate of Security (NDS) said.
Acting Minister of Education Mohammad Asif Nang on Wednesday said that 1,000 schools banned by militants in restive areas of different provinces had been reopened. Another 550 schools still remained closed in the militancy-hit areas, he said at…
Some members of the Wolesi Jirga -- lower house of the parliament -- on Monday donated their 10 days salary to families of martyred and wounded security officials. The lower house established a special fund to help relatives…
Some of the 1,050 families that recently migrated from Pakistan and other countries to southern Ghazni and Paktika provinces belong have links with the Islamic State (IS), Afghan officials claimed for the first time. During a joint…
Police in southwestern Nimroz on Thursday claimed foiling a big smuggling bid by recovering 250 kg heroin to Iran and detained two alleged smugglers. The illicit substances were recovered from the oil tanker at the Abrishim Border…
A number of people staged a protest rally in the capital Kabul on Thursday, asking the government not to allow Pakistani politician and cleric Maulana Fazl Rahman to enter Kabul. Fazal is largely viewed as a sympathizer of…
In the backdrop of growing security challenges in the country, the Afghan National Army (ANA) was impregnable and well-prepared to defend the motherland, commander of the 111 corps said on Thursday. Lt. Gen. Qadam Shah Shahim said this…
Afghanistan’s National Security Advisor Hanif Atmar on Wednesday said regional countries had increased joint efforts at countering terrorism after realising the menace equally threatened them. Atmar, who arrived in Tehran on a two-day official visit, held exclusive talks…
One killed and seven others including four foreigners were wounded when a suicide bomber on Monday rammed his explosive-laden car into European Union Police (EUPOL) vehicle on Monday in the Yakatut neighborhood in the 9th police district of…
Police in eastern Nangarhar province claimed arresting two alleged smugglers and seizing heavy and light weapons being smuggled to capital Kabul, an official said Sunday. The weapons were recovered from a car at the Daronta check-post of Srah…
A decades-long enmity between some families from the same tribe was resolved by a jirga in the Pushrud district of western Farah province on Friday, an official said. Amir Mohammad Ayubi, the head of Farah Peace Committee,…
More than 5,000 mines planted by insurgents in various areas of Maiwand district in southern Kandahar province have been defused by the police, officials said Sunday. Jan Agha, the district police chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News insurgents…
Media support organisation NAI on Wednesday said eight journalists were killed in 2014 when violence against them surged by 64 percent. Another nine journalists were injured, 20 detained, 38 beaten and 50 threatened and insulted during the year,…
Police seized a truck and recovered 264 kilograms of drugs from it in southern Zabul province, an official said on Wednesday. Two men on the truck were also detained in connection with the drugs, Zabul police chief Brig.…
A large number of people on Tuesday staged a protest demonstration in front of the Iranian Embassy in Kabul, calling for an end to ill-treatment of Afghan refugees in the neighbouring country. The protest began at around 10:30am…
Four persons, including the upraising leader, were killed during a roadside bombing in Maqur district of southern Ghazni province on Tuesday, an official said. Shafiq Nang, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the incident
Police captured a truck and recovered hundreds of kilograms of drugs from it in northern Takhar province on Sunday, an official said. Police chief Brig. Gen. Abdul Hanan Qataghani told Pajhwok Afghan News four persons had been arrested…
Residents of 10 villages in the Maiwand district of southern Kandahar province have revolted against the Taliban after being fed up with their atrocities. Residents of these villages said they endured Taliban’s atrocities for eight years and…
Security forces have detained two teenage alleged suicide bombers during separate incidents in the central capital Kabul, sources said on Monday. The National Directorate of Security (NDS) in a statement said its operatives detained an 18-year-old alleged suicide…
Officials said on Sunday militants were using locals as human shield and targeting security forces position from their houses in Dangam, a district under intense fighting for weeks in eastern Kunar province. Abdul Hasib Saddiqi, spokesman of the…
A teenage girl, who was allegedly readied by her family and Taliban insurgents for a suicide attack, has surrendered to police in southern Helmand province, officials said on Sunday. Public Order Police said the 14-year-old, Zarmina, had been…
The US and NATO on Sunday hold a ceremony in Kabul to formally end their longest combat mission that ousted Taliban regime in 2001 but left large swathes in rebels’ control in Afghanistan. The event marked end to…
