Afghanistan

He made the remarks in a meeting with Chief Executive of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Abdullah Abdullah on Saturday morning in Dushanbe on the sideline of the Fifth Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA). “There are many opportunities for the development of bilateral and regional economic relations between the two countries,” Rouhani said, the official website…

Afghan media cited official sources as saying that the blast was caused on Monday by a magnetic bomb attached under the bus, which had members of Afghanistan’s Independent Administrative Reform and Civil Service Commission on board. Initial reports suggested that the van was completely destroyed. Wahidullah Mayar, spokesman for the Ministry of Public Health, said five people had been killed…

Three successive blasts have rocked the Afghan capital Kabul, leaving one person dead and 17 others wounded. The Sunday bombings began with the detonation of a magnetic bomb attached under a van carrying officials headed to the Kabul Education University, interior ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi said. Shortly afterwards, two more bombs that had been planted by the side of the road…

Afghan police and security officials said the casualties took place when an assailant blew himself up at the entrance to a military training center in the west of the capital city on Thursday. Speaking on condition of anonymity, one official said the attacker detonated his explosives after being prevented from entering the Marshal Fahim National Defense University — one of…

A US military helicopter has been destroyed after a “hard landing” in Afghanistan that left all passengers and crew onboard injured. Colonel David Butler, a spokesman for US Forces Afghanistan, said a CH-47 Chinook helicopter “hit the ground hard on the way to drop passengers off” during a mission in the country’s southern province of Helmand on Saturday. Butler said…

Three people, including a senior cleric, have been killed and at least 20 others injured in a bomb attack at a mosque in the Afghan capital, Kabul. The blast occurred at the al-Taqwa Mosque in eastern Kabul, where Samiullah Raihan was leading the Friday noon prayers. Raihan was a supporter of the Kabul government and a member of the National Ulema…

Three people, including a senior cleric, have been killed and at least 20 others injured in a bomb attack at a mosque in the Afghan capital, Kabul. The blast occurred at the al-Taqwa Mosque in eastern Kabul, where Samiullah Raihan was leading the Friday noon prayers. Raihan was a supporter of the Kabul government and a member of the National Ulema…

Five women and seven children were among those killed in the attacks that took place in Helmand’s Gereshk and Kunar’s Chawki districts on Monday and Wednesday, the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said Thursday.  “Civilian casualty toll from airstrikes in #Afghanistan continues to rise,” UNAMA said on Twitter. “Parties must respect international obligations to protect civilians from harm.” The attacks came…

Alexander Bortnikov, the director of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), said on Tuesday that a local affiliate of the Daesh terrorist group had managed to gather as many as 5,000 militants in the area, according to RT. Addressing the chiefs of intelligence services from ex-Soviet republics in Tajikistan’s capital of Dushanbe, Bortnikov said, “Especially worrying is re-deployment of terrorist groups…

The air raid was carried out by the US forces on Thursday night, said Omar Zwak, a spokesman for Helmand’s governor, adding that it also left 12 other police personnel wounded. A spokesman for the US forces in Afghanistan, Colonel Dave Butler, said the aerial attack took place after Afghan forces requested US air support during a firefight with the…