10+ hour, 28+ min ago   (408+ words) Construction of a 41-kilometer road linking Ghazni and Paktika in southeastern Afghanistan remains unfinished a year after work began, with residents and drivers saying the slow pace has disrupted travel, damaged vehicles and made it harder for farmers to get…...

10+ hour, 45+ min ago   (629+ words) The United States has deported Afghan lawful permanent resident Nazira Haji Zada to Afghanistan in the first case brought before a special terrorism removal court created three decades ago but never previously used. Haji Zada, 47, agreed to be deported after…...

11+ hour ago   (360+ words) Taliban have detained at least 38 people in Badakhshan over the past week as they search for former security personnel and people accused of links to armed groups opposed to Taliban rule, sources from the province who are aware of the…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (404+ words) Wednesday marks 25 years since the assassination of Ahmad Shah Massoud, a prominent commander who fought Soviet forces and later the Taliban and was declared a national hero by the former government. Massoud was assassinated on Sept. 9, 2001, in Khwaja Bahauddin district…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (541+ words) Saudi Arabia-based Delta Energy Group on Monday signed a series of agreements with the Taliban’s Ministry of Mines and Petroleum covering oil and gas exploration in western Afghanistan, a gas utilization study for Herat and a proposed 700-kilometer pipeline. The…...

1+ week, 19+ hour ago   (566+ words) Historic sites in Afghanistan’s Ghazni province are deteriorating because of natural disasters, years of conflict and inadequate preservation, prompting residents and visitors to call for urgent restoration work. Sites including the Bala Hissar, the Ghaznain fortress and Ghazni’s old city…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (556+ words) Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said Wednesday that demonstrations have no place in Islamic law, defending a newly approved police law that bans protests across Afghanistan. Speaking at a news conference in Kabul, Mujahid was asked about the prohibition on demonstrations…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (285+ words) Germany’s Foreign Office said Monday that a Taliban delegation allowed into the country will handle “purely technical” matters at Afghanistan’s diplomatic missions and is not scheduled to hold talks with German government officials, AFP reported. According to AFP report, a…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (933+ words) Afghanistan underwent major political, institutional and social changes during the two decades of US and international involvement that followed the fall of the Taliban rule in 2001. The period saw the rebuilding of state institutions, adoption of a new constitution, establishment…...

2+ week, 19+ hour ago   (309+ words) The United States has deported 12 Afghan nationals to the Central African Republic. Among them is a young Afghan man whom a US judge had previously protected from deportation to Afghanistan because of fears he could face persecution by the Taliban....