Afghanistan News

MANILA — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) again lowered its forecasts for economic growth in developing Asia and the Pacific, amid mounting challenges that include increased monetary tightening by central banks, fallout from the…
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On the first anniversary of girls being banned from attending high schools in Afghanistan, the UN renewed its call that the Taliban immediately reopen high schools for everyone. Last year on the same day, the 18th of September, high schools…
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Dozens of Afghans held a protest in Kabul over the United States’ recent decision to transfer part of Afghanistan’s frozen funds to a bank in Switzerland. The protesters said, the money should be transferred to Afghanistan’s Central bank.…
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The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation members during their three-day meeting issued a joint declaration stressing the imperative of establishing an inclusive administration in Afghanistan. According to their declaration, the SCO Member…
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Dozens of girls protested in Afghanistan’s Paktia province after Taliban authorities shut their schools just days after classes resumed. The agencies and local media reported an estimated three million secondary school girls have been shut…
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Today the United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), announced an $80 million commitment to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to improve food security and nutrition for Afghans…
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In Afghanistan, a massive explosion ripped through a mosque in Kabul yesterday evening, leaving at least 21 dead and more than 40 injured. The blast took place during the evening prayers at the mosque situated in the Khairkhana area of…
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In Afghanistan, a bomb blast in the capital Kabul killed at least eight people and injured 22 yesterday. The blast on a busy shopping street in the western part of the city, a predominantly Shia neighbourhood, is the second attack in the…
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Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in a CIA drone strike in Afghanistan over the weekend, US officials said. The killing of Zawahiri is considered the biggest blow to the militant group since its founder Osama bin Laden was killed…
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Afghanistan's Taliban forces clashed with Iranian Border Guards on the frontier between the two countries yesterday. The Taliban have claimed that one of their fighter was killed in the fighting, which occurred in the border area between…
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