A record total of 533 journalists are currently detained worldwide, according to the annual round-up of violence and abuses against journalists published by Reporters Without Borders...
The mountainous northern province of Panjshir, with its spectacular landscape, has recorded a significant increase in domestic tourists this year, officials said. The Department of Information...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday strongly condemned the attack on a hotel in Kabul and called for the perpetrators to be held to account. A...
Mawlavi Haibatullah Akhundzada, the supreme leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, said in a meeting with the provincial heads of the Ministry for the Propagation...
Kabul Municipality on Tuesday inaugurated a new landmark featuring a giant hand-painted globe in Dahan-e-bagh square in the city. The globe is eight meters in diameter...
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) on Tuesday announced the establishment of the National Procurement Commission. Office of Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs said in...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday met with Uzbekistan’s Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov in Washington, where they discussed a number of issues including Afghanistan....
Afghanistan’s national power utility Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) said on Monday the reason behind the longer and more frequent outages in Kabul is due to...
A hotel came under attack in the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday. A video posted on social media showed smoke billowing out of a multi-storey building...
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has called on the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) to ensure that border clashes are not repeated. This comes after a...
After the recent armed attacks on the Pakistani and Russian embassies in Kabul by Daesh, China’s ambassador Wang Yu met with Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, the...
Pensioners say it has been 15 months since they last received their pensions and that their financial challenges are growing. They say that they have repeatedly...
Japan’s ambassador to Afghanistan has met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and said that his country will try to...
The Deputy Minister of Refugees and Repatriations, Abdul Rahman Rashid, along with an Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) delegation left Kabul on a five-day trip to...
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of Hizb-e-Islami, said on Friday that last week’s attack near his office involved Tajik nationals who carried the Daesh flag but said he...
Marking Human Rights Day, the United Nations on Saturday called on the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) to live up to commitments enshrined in the Universal...
China and Saudi Arabia stressed in a joint statement the importance of supporting efforts being made to achieve security and stability in Afghanistan, and ensuring the...
The United Nations said on Friday 4.2 million children are out of school in Afghanistan, about 60 percent of whom are girls. The United Nations International...
Local officials in Zabul say 2,000 kilograms of drugs seized recently were torched and destroyed in the southern Afghan province. The drugs had been seized at...
The government of Pakistan, facing gas shortage as winter sets in, has worked out a plan to import liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) overland from Turkmenistan through...
