Five cement factories will be built soon in Afghanistan, Minister of Mines and Petroleum Shahabuddin Delawar said during a visit to Kandahar province. Delawar said that...
Russia’s representative at the UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva on Monday called for continued investigations into war crimes by the US and NATO in...
Acting Economy Minister, Qari Din Mohammad Hanif, on Tuesday met with Japanese diplomats in Kabul to discuss ways to improve bilateral cooperation, as well as the...
China is fast becoming a lucrative market for Afghan products, including handmade carpets, pine nuts and other goods. Speaking to China’s Xinhua news agency, one carpet...
Afghanistan’s Embassy in Rome said on Monday the recent shipwreck off the coast of Greece took the lives of at least 78 men from Afghanistan and...
China and the United States agreed on Monday to stabilize their intense rivalry so it does not veer into conflict, but failed to produce any major...
The Government of Pakistan must urgently stop arbitrarily arresting and harassing Afghan refugees and asylum seekers, Amnesty International said on Tuesday – on World Refugee Day....
Cricketing minnows Oman pulled off a massive upset by beating Ireland by five wickets in their opening World Cup Qualifier in Bulawayo on Monday, the Gulf...
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said at the 53rd meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) that the humanitarian situation...
The Ministry of Interior of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) on Monday rejected Pakistan’s claims of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) members being moved to the north...
A parliamentary delegation of Iran will soon travel to Afghanistan to follow up on the issue of water rights, an Iranian lawmaker has said. “There have...
Japan’s special envoy for Afghanistan, Kansuke Nagaoka, visited Kabul and held talks with officials and political figures. In meeting with former president Hamid Karzai, the sides...
Doctors at Farah Provincial Hospital say a woman has given birth to quadruplets and that the babies, three boys and one girl, are all healthy. The...
A private company in Herat province is producing almost 300 solar panels per day, each of which has a capacity of providing up to 650 watts...
An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 struck the Gulf of California on Sunday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. Mexico’s civil defense office confirmed that there...
Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) has named an 18-strong squad for the three One Day Internationals against Bangladesh, and it includes also key player Rashid Khan. The...
Teenage girls in Baghlan province who have been denied access to an education for the past two years have turned to weaving carpets in a bid...
A number of tribal elders in Nangarhar province on Sunday urged the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) to reopen schools for girls above the 6th grade...
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) has “strongly rejected” claims made by the Special Inspector General of Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) that threats by foreign and domestic...
Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani has called on ministry officials to ensure all work processes are transparent. Haqqani made the remarks at a ceremony to introduce the...
