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Afghan Government Releases 1,000 Taliban Members - Security Council
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 9 (Sputnik/ANI): The Afghan government has released 1,000 members of the Taliban movement and expects the group to respond by setting free government security forces personnel and speeding up the preparation of direct talks, the Afghan National Security Council said
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World Bank approves USD 400 mn loan to help Afghanistan deal with COVID-19
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 8 (ANI): The World Bank on Friday approved a USD 400 million grant to help Afghanistan "sustain the pace of key economic and public finance reforms and support the country to manage current risks and uncertainties compounded by the COVID-19 crisis."
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US special envoy to visit India, Qatar, Pakistan to revive Afghan peace ta
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 07 (ANI): United States special envoy to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, will visit India to discuss the important role of New Delhi in sustainable peace in Kabul and the region, the State Department said on Wednesday.
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Afghanistan intelligence agency NDS busts joint ISIS-Haqqani centre in Kab
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 6 (ANI): The intelligence agency of Afghanistan, National Directorate of Security (NDS) said that a joint terror group -ISIS and Haqqani Network centre was destroyed through three targeted operations by the Special Forces of the National Security in Kabul.
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Afghanistan reports 168 new COVID-19 cases, count rises to 3,392
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 6 (ANI): A total of 168 new positive cases of coronavirus have been reported in Afghanistan.
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Afghan security council confirms release of over 100 taliban prisoners
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 5 (ANI): The Afghan government has released 102 more Taliban prisoners in line with the US-Taliban peace deal signed in February this year.
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Coronavirus cases in Afghanistan close to 3,000
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 4 (ANI): Afghan health authorities on Monday said that 190 positive cases have been recorded across the country in the past 24 hours, which escalated the country's total infections to 2,894.
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US threatens Taliban with retaliatory actions if violence in Afghanistan c
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 3 (Sputnik/ANI): The US military called on the parties to the conflict in Afghanistan to settle the disagreements through political means and threatened with retaliatory actions if the Taliban militants did not reduce the scale of violence, Col. Sonny Leggett, spokes
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Afghan FM expresses gratitude to NSA Ajit Doval for India's assistance to
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 29 (ANI): National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and acting Foreign Minister of Afghanistan Mohammad Haneef Atmar discussed various issues pertaining to the Afghan peace process and extension of medical support to Kabul in view of COVID-19.
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3 killed in Kabul suicide attack
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 29 (ANI): At least three civilians were killed and eight others sustained injuries in a suicide attack close to the gate of the special operations unit in Kabul city on Wednesday morning, the Afghan Commandos Special Unit said.
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4 policemen killed, 5 injured in Taliban attack in Afghanistan's Oruzgan
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Oruzgan [Afghanistan], April 26 (Sputnik/ANI): Four Afghan policemen were killed and five others were injured as Taliban militants carried out an attack on a security checkpoint in the Nachin area of the country's central province of Oruzgan, a security source told Sputnik on Sunday.
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ISI's changing strategies pushing Kashmiri terrorists for 'jihad' in Afgha
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Amsterdam [Netherlands], April 25 (ANI): Pakistan is posing multifarious challenges for those seeking to curb its sponsorship of terrorism, says European think-tank while exposing ISI's new strategies of using terrorists for its proxy wars against its neighbours.
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