FAIZABAD CITY (SW) – Residents of Faizabad, the center of Badakhshan, have raised concerns about the inadequate staffing levels and the specialist personnel in the emergency department of the Provincial Hospital.
KABUL (SW) – The Iran-Pakistan security meeting is set to be held in Pakistan on Monday, January 15, to review the security situation and threats from Afghanistan, Iranian media reported.
KABUL (SW) – To explore ways and means of processing agricultural products for the country’s economic growth, the Academy of Sciences held a one-day scientific research seminar on Sunday.
MONITORING (SW) – Yemen’s Houthi rebels fired an anti-ship cruise missile toward an American destroyer in the Red Sea on Sunday, but a U.S. fighter jet shot it down in the latest attack roiling global shipping amid Israel’s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
KABUL (SW) – The Da Afghanistan Bank/Afghanistan Central Bank has announced that in order to maintain and stabilize the value of the Afghani currency, it will auction 15 million US dollars on Tuesday, January 16.
KABUL (SW) – Robert Chatterton Dickson, the Chargé d’Affaires of the UK Mission to Afghanistan met with Abdul-Kabir, Acting Deputy Prime Minister for Political Affairs, and Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai, Political Deputy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The focus of these high-level talks was the deliberation on the next steps for implementing the recent United Nations Security Council resolution on Afghanistan.
MONITORING (SW) – North Korea said it has tested a new solid-fuel missile fitted with a hypersonic warhead as it continued efforts to develop more powerful, harder-to-detect weaponry.
MONITORING (SW) – The war in Gaza entered its 100th day on Sunday with no end to the carnage in sight.
MONITORING (SW) – At least 33 people have been killed in a landslide brought on by heavy rains in northwestern Colombia, officials have said.
KABUL (SW) – In a devastating incident on Thursday, January 11, an explosion rocked the Dasht-e Barchi area in the western part of Kabul, resulting in two fatalities and injuring 12 individuals.
MONITORING (SW) – The United States and Britain carried out strikes from the air and sea against Houthis military targets in Yemen overnight in response to the movement’s attacks on ships in the Red Sea, a regional widening of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
KABUL (SW) – United Nations Development Program (UNDP) officials express concern over the rising poverty in Afghanistan, highlighting a significant decrease in donor aid and an alarming situation where “Around 85% of Afghans live on less than US $1 a day”.
