by Shereena Qazi 27/02/2019 Hanif Atmar held several government posts before launching his own party [Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera] Kabul, Afghanistan – Mohammad Hanif Atmar, Afghanistan’s powerful former national security adviser, will challenge President Ashraf Ghani for the …
By Steven Kinzer, Boston Globe LIKE A DISTANT light at the end of an excruciatingly long tunnel, the prospect of American withdrawal from Afghanistan now seems to glimmer ahead. Several rounds of negotiation in …
By TOLOnews 23 FEBRUARY 2019 – Edited: 24 FEBRUARY 2019 Interim Govt Plan Not Applicable In Afghanistan: Ghan President Ghani says the plan for establishing an interim government in Afghanistan is an outsider scheme. President Ashraf Ghani …
By Josie Ensor, The Telegraph, UK Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’’s crown prince, on Friday defended China’s use of concentration camps for Muslims, saying it was Beijing’s “right”. “China has the right to carry …
22/02/2019 Since December, China has taken at least three groups of foreign diplomats to visit to what it calls re-education and training facilities, but rights groups say are internment camps. A fourth group is …
21/02/2019 Nursultan Nazarbayev has fired Bakytzhan Sagintayev’s government for a failure to raise living standards and diversify away from oil and gas. President Nursultan Nazarbayev says on the presidential website he will soon propose …
By Barbara Starr and Ryan Brown, CNN Top US commander at odds with Trump over Syria and ISIS Washington (CNN) ISIS’ Afghanistan-based affiliate has emerged as a major threat capable of carrying out direct attacks …
By Khama Press 10/02/2019 The Afghan and coalition forces have killed at least 30 Taliban and ISIS Khurasan (ISIS-K) militants during their latest operations which were conducted in the past 24 hours. According to …
09/02/2019 WASHINGTON – The US diplomat leading talks with the Taliban said Friday he hoped to see a peace deal in place before Afghanistan’s July presidential elections, though he cautioned he did not trust …
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia is ready to help the United States advance its negotiations with the Taliban on withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan, the RIA news agency cited Russia’s foreign ministry as saying on …