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17 Taliban terrorists killed in Afghanistan
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 29 (ANI): At least 17 Taliban terrorists were killed and 11 others injured in clashes with security personnel in northern Faryab province, Afghanistan's defence ministry said on Wednesday.
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US welcomes Taliban's Eid ul-Adha ceasefire announcement
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], July 29 (Sputnik/ANI): The United States welcomes the Taliban's declaration of a three-day ceasefire over Eid ul-Adha commencing on July 31, acting US Ambassador to Kabul Ross Wilson said.
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10,708 Afghan soldiers killed, wounded since US-Taliban peace deal: Ghani
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 28 (Sputnik/ANI): Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said on Tuesday that a total of 10,708 members of the Afghan National Security and Defence Forces (ANDSF) have been killed and injured since the signing of the US-Taliban peace deal on February 29.
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Afghanistan: Taliban to observe 3-day ceasefire during Eid al-Adha
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 28 (ANI): Taliban on Tuesday said they will observe a three-day ceasefire in Afghanistan for one of the most important festivals of Muslims called Eid al-Adha.
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Afghanistan Cricket Board sacks its CEO
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 28 (ANI): The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) on Monday terminated Lutfullah Stanikzai, the Chief Executive Officer of the ACB, two years before his contract expires.
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MEA thanks Kabul for safe return of 11 Afghan Sikhs, Hindus
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 26 (ANI): The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Sunday thanked the Government of Afghanistan for extending necessary support for the safe return of 11 people belonging to the Sikh and Hindu minority community, including Nidan Singh Sachdeva, who was kidnapped by t
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Taliban dismisses UNSC report on group maintaining ties with terror groups
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 26 (ANI): The Taliban on Sunday rejected a UN Security Council (UNSC) report which said that the group has been maintaining ties with al-Qaeda and that some of its fighters are joining the ranks of the Islamic State, Sputnik reported.
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Sikh Afghan nationals narrate their stories of fear, suppression and anxie
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 26 (ANI): A seven-year-old girl Poonam carrying a doll came out of the lift of ceremonial lounge at Delhi Airport. She was accompanied by her eight-year-old brother and parents. One of her eyes has to be operated as it suffered an injury after a Gurdwara in Kabul's Sh
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'...Hindustan is Hindustan': Nidan Singh thanks Indian govt after his retu
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 26 (ANI): Nidan Singh Sachdeva, the Afghan Sikh who was kidnapped a month ago and released recently, arrived here earlier in the day and narrated the ordeals that he faced at the hands of abductors and also thanked the Indian government for bringing him back to his
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11 Afghan Sikhs, including Nidan Singh abducted from Gurudwara last month,
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 26 (ANI): Eleven members of Sikh community from Afghanistan, who were granted short-term visas by Indian Embassy in Kabul, including Nidan Singh Sachdeva, who was abducted from a gurudwara in Paktia province last month, touched down in New Delhi on Sunday afternoon
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'Termite' ISI agents destroying Afghan system, should be confronted: Ex-Af
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 26 (ANI): Former Afghan intelligence chief Rahmatullah Nabil has termed agents of Pakistani spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) as "termites" who are destroying the Afghanistan system stating they pose serious threats to the country and should be confronted
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US pledges $36.7M for COVID-19 response in Afghanistan
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 26 (ANI): The United States has set aside more than $36.7 million to aid the Afghanistan response to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as expedited $90 million in the continued development assistance through the World Bank to support the war-torn country's national hea
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