Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum, former Vice President and Leader of the Junbish party, returned from his hometown Sheberghan to Kabul after a year and a half to meet with President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and other political leaders.
The National Soldier’s Day was celebrated in Kabul and other provinces of the country on Saturday.
Losing four of her sons in the ranks of the security forces, their grieving old mother lives in a rented mud house in Gardez city deprived of many rights.
Hamdullah Mohib, National Security Adviser, has said the UN sanctions are important in enforcing conditionality on the Taliban for peace in Afghanistan.
Security sources in Ghor said that three members of the family of Bismillah Adel Aimaq, the slain managing director of Sada-e Ghor radio, were killed in the Taliban attack and 10 others were wounded.
Foreign Minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar has arrived in Moscow at the official invitation of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Authorities in Herat vowed to have recovered Iran-made military equipment and uniform from a Taliban base in the province.
Analysts believe that the US pressure on the Taliban has led to serious changes in the group’s operations.
The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (IHRC) has expressed concerns about the human rights situation of children in Afghanistan.
Dozens of religious scholars in the western zone gathered in Herat on Tuesday to express support for the security forces and push for peace in the country.
There was a rise in civilians killed and injured in Afghanistan following the start of peace negotiations in September, although overall numbers for 2020 were down due to lower civilian casualty rates earlier in the year, according to a report released today by the UN.
The sharp drawdown of foreign military advisers, mainly from the U.S., has virtually paralyzed the mission to train the Afghan Air Force (AAF) crews and maintain the service’s aircraft, said a new report.
