(ATN News): Arriving at Bagram Airfield at around 08:30 p.m. local time, Trump spent more than two and half hours, delivering Thanksgiving greetings to U.S. forces, serving them turkey and meeting with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in U.S. largest military base in Afghanistan. During his meeting with President Ghani, Mr. Trump announced that he had
(TOLO News): “There will be no significant reduction in our security budget unless we reduce unnecessary spending and prevent wastage,” said Sediq Sediqqi, a spokesman for President Ghani. In the next year’s (1399) budget plan, more than 155 billion Afghanis have been allocated for the Defense Ministry, Internal Affairs Ministry and the National Security Directorate.
(TOLO News): According to NSIA, these guns are imported into Afghanistan from Turkey, Russia, Italy, Slovakia, China, Iran and Pakistan. The Ministry of Finance said that taxes are imposed on all imports of these guns. “According to customs rules and tariff guidelines, 16 percent of the customs duty is imposed on these authorized guns,” said
(ATN News):ccording to provincial police spokesman Shayeq Shorish, the air raid was carried out by Afghan forces at around 7 pm on Thursday night. Shorish further added that Nazar Gul was a key Taliban commander who played a key in most of anti-governmental operations in the province. The Taliban militant group has not commented in
(Afghanistan Times): The Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC) says it hasn’t yet received the list of people charged with electoral crimes, one week after a deadline for the referring of these people by the independent election commission. Qotbuddin Roydar, a member of the electoral complaints commission, said Tuesday that the election commission hadn’t fulfilled its
(BNA): Six armed terrorists were killed in a clash by security forces in Zabul province. The terrorists were targeted in suburb of Shahjou district bazaar while destructive activities. ANA top commander in Atal army corps in south of the country told BNA, four terrorists were killed in the conflict. Numerous of heavy and light weapons
(TOLO news): TOLOnews has obtained a document showing that Shad Mohammad Sargand, a senior adviser to President Ghani, also received a salary from the US’s Ohio University—while serving as adviser—over the past two years. Sargand, who was a professor at the Russ College of Engineering and Technology at Ohio University in the US state of
(TOLO news): The US Ambassador to Afghanistan John Bass, followed by envoys from other nations including Germany and the Netherlands, on Tuesday night strongly reacted to the arrest of Afghan activists who exposed reports of alleged sexual abuse of children and youth in multiple schools in Logar province. Their reactions came minutes after President Ashraf
(KHAAMA PRESS): Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the deputy political chief and head of the political office of Taliban in Qatar met with Javad Zarif, the Foreign Minister of Iran. Suhail Shaheen, a spokesman for the political office of Taliban in Qatar said in a Twitter post that Mullah Baradar leading a delegation of Taliban leaders
(BNA): Welcoming the Afghan security forces for entering offensive position from defense one, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan said that Taliban will face Daesh fate if were not ready to accept peace talks, a statement from the Presidential Palace said Tuesday. Addressing a Women Military Peace and Security Conference, the president on Tuesday