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Kabul, Dec 29 (IANS) Lost status and a desperate existence in Iran are driving thousands of former Afghan troops -- many of them elite commandos trained by the US -- to consider fighting as mercenaries in Ukraine and other battlefields,…
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Kabul: More than 120 people have been killed and wounded in Afghanistan in recent days, the United Nations has said. In a statement, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) urged the de-facto Taliban government to…
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Kabul: A total of 14,263 families in two Afghan provinces have received food assistance, the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development announced on Monday. In northern Jawzjan province, 8,413 surveyed families received flour, oil,…
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Kabul: The death toll from a magnitude 5.6 earthquake in Afghanistan's western province of Badghis has increased to 22, an official confirmed on Tuesday. "The latest figures by our local sources showed that 22 people died and five others…
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Kabul, Oct 10: The victims of a suicide bombing at a mosque in Afghanistan's Kunduz province were buried in groups, a media report said citing officials. While authorities in Kunduz have put the death toll of Friday's deadly bombing,…
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Istanbul: Turkish security forces have detained 19 illegal Afghan immigrants in country's biggest city Istanbul, local media reported. Istanbul municipal police units on Monday stopped a van on suspicion in the Sultangazi district on the…
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Kabul: Airstrikes in the Afghan provinces of Helmand and Badakhshan provinces killed more than 35 Taliban militants amid the escalating violence in the war-torn country, according to defence officials. In a statement on Sunday, the…
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Panaji: The Goa Police claimed to have arrested one person in connection with stabbing of a teenaged Afghan student on the Goa University campus, here on Monday. Satish Nilakanthe, a resident of Maharashtra, had been arrested in…
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Kabul: The campaign team of Afghan Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah has said that it would not accept the results of the September 28 presidential election, which has been won by the current head of state, President Ashraf Ghani. The…
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Kabul: At least 25 people were killed after a suspected suicide bomber blew himself up in front of an educational centre in a mainly Shi’ite area in the west of the Afghan capital Kabul today. As many as 35 others were also injured in…
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