Afghanistan
Five Emiratis killed in Afghanistan attack
Five Emiratis were killed in a bomb attack in Afghanistan on Tuesday. The men were carrying out humanitarian, educational and development work in Afghanistan. The UAE ambassador to Afghanistan, Juma Al Kaabi, was also injured in the explosion, in Kandahar, as previously reported. The dead were named on Wednesday as Mohammed Ali...
Kabul blast: Afghanistan mourns protest bombing victims
Afghanistan is observing a day of national mourning after suicide bombers killed 80 people and wounded 230 in an attack on marchers in Kabul. So-called Islamic State (IS), the Sunni Muslim militant group, has said it was behind Saturday's attack on members of the Shia Muslim Hazara minority. In a televised address,...
Taliban attack on Afghanistan police cadets near Kabul kills dozens
Taliban bombers have attacked an Afghan police convoy outside the capital Kabul, killing at least 30 people and wounding 50 others, officials say. Two bombs hit a convoy of buses carrying graduates from a ceremony on the city's western outskirts. Paghman District Governor Musa Khan told the BBC that all but two of the dead...
TERROR WARNING: Al-Qaeda is ‘planning MAJOR ATTACKS against the West from Afghanistan’
INFAMOUS terror group al-Qaeda is planning major attacks against the West from its newly recaptured base in Afghanistan, experts warn. The violent extremists had fled the country, taking up residence in rural Pakistan – but they have now reclaimed their stronghold after allied troops left the country in 2014. Security...
Afghanistan violence: Deadly bomb and gun attack hits Kabul
At least 28 people have been killed and 329 injured in a huge explosion in the centre of the Afghan capital Kabul, police and officials say. A suicide attacker detonated a vehicle and a fierce gun battle followed. Officials say the attack is now over and the area has been cleared. A Taliban spokesman said the group carried out...
Afghanistan violence: Deadly ‘suicide bomb’ hits Kabul
Several people have been killed in a bombing in the centre of the Afghan capital Kabul, President Ashraf Ghani has said. Interior ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said a suicide attacker had detonated a vehicle. Dozens are reported injured. Gunfire can still be heard in the area. A Taliban spokesman said the group was...
Afghan Government Seeks Financial Assistance to Bring Refugees Home
The Afghan government is finalizing agreements with some European member states and the European Union to handle the return of Afghan refugees, currently in limbo in Greece. The full details of the memoranda of understanding have yet to be announced, but Afghan officials have told that the Afghan government will seek support...
100 children suffer gas poisoning at school in western Afghanistan
At least 100 schoolchildren have been taken to the hospital after suspected gas poisoning in Herat Province, western Afghanistan, officials said, adding that the children “felt dizzy” at their school and several of them “had fallen unconscious.” The incident took place at a school in the...