Kazakhstan's Committee on State Revenue says that $24 million worth of contraband goods were expropriated from illegal circulation in 2018. This is more than twice as much as in 2017, when their aggregate worth was on the order of $11 million.
5 month agoPro Taliban accounts claims that Haji Mandi (next to Gen. Raziq) was assassinated in Kandahar province
9 Taliban militants killed in Helmand, Uruzgan and Jawzjan provinces
At least 18 Taliban militants, including a key commander, have been killed in an airstrike in the Faizabad district of northwestern Jawzjan province
5 month agoWolesi Jirga candidate killed in Kandahar blast
Taliban assassinated a border police commander named Haji Mondai in PD3 of Kandahar city. Yesterday in another assassination Taliban killed former paliamentary candidate Mashour in PD4 of same Kandahar city.
5 month agoThree people have been killed and two others wounded as a result of a traffic accident in northern Samangan province, an official said on Tuesday.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo: "I have a team on the ground right trying to negotiate with the Taliban militants in Afghanistan."
Netanyahu: I meant Azerbaijan, not Afghanistan
9:30 PM in Doha. The U.S. delegation 1st, and Taliban have just left the venue of talks - after another long day (day 5.5 of this round, depending how you count, with a 2 day break in the middle). Total silence. No word of a breakthrough. But suggestions they are in details.
At least eight security forces were killed and seven others wounded after Taliban militants stormed their check-posts in the Dawlat Abad district of northern Balkh province, an official said on Monday.
Director of the Astana pyramid, the palace of peace and reconciliation Adil Aryn, has reportedly been arrested on suspicion of corruption
A VBIED explosion in Chaman (Balochistan) left multiple minors injured. No claim of responsibility from any group yet.
At least 10 security personnel have been killed, seven wounded and as many others captured alive during a clash with militants in northern Kunduz
18 Taliban Insurgents Including Commander Killed in Jawzjan Province
Taliban attacked Yangi Qala district center in northern Takhar.
Seven civilians - five men and two children - wounded as Taliban rocket hits Yangi Qala district center in Takhar: police
All violations in elections will be prosecuted according to the law, Ghani says, adding that no IEC or IECC members should have any link with any political party.
5 month agoDozens of homes in Shindand district of Herat province have been damaged by the floods, as per International Organisation for Migration (IOM), which is conducting assessments in the area with partners.
5 month agoHerat police killed a would be assassin who tried to shoot ALP member on CP near the city
Tank Truck Driver Shot in Jawzjan Province
Taliban claimed base and 2 CPs overrun in Qarghan Tapa area of Imam Sahib Kunduz last night, 18 troops and militiamen killed, 6 others detained, APC and sizable amount arms /equipment seized by insurgents
5 month agoArmy says airstrike killed at least two Taliban fighters and destroyed one weapons cache in Helmand's Nahr-e-Saraj district on Sunday, army officials said, adding that another airstrike killed 6 Taliban fighters in Faizabad district of Jowzjan province.
5 month agoAs flash floods affect various provinces of Afghanistan, the WHO and its partners have responded in Wardak, Zabul, Kandahar and Helmand to provide basic health services and essential medicine.
5 month agoMullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Taliban's number two and head of the group's Qatar office, met Uzbekistan's Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov in Doha on Sunday and discussed the peace talks, Taliban said in a statement on Monday.
Afghan Taliban and US officials failed to reach any agreement at the conclusion of talks in Qatar. The talks continued on Sunday on drafts about the foreign troops withdrawal and to prevent Afghanistan soil from terrorism. However, they could not reach any accord.
5 month agoCPAG: There has been significant decline in the number of civilians killed last month as efforts for reconciliation
5 month agoAfghan forces targeted a Taliban's hideout in Baghlan in which two fighters of the group were killed and a weapons cache was seized, the National Directorate of Security said in a statement.
5 month agoIt's propaganda
Colonel Serajuddin, chief of 215th Maiwand Corps garrison killed by Taliban in Bastion Attack. Taliban say, 137 US troops including 15 pilots and 18 planes engineers killed, 19 injured. 260 Kabul admin troops including 142 commandos killed and 73 others injured.
According to the Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yusef Ahmadi, "397 enemies were killed in 46 hours long operation" in Shorab (Bastion) airbase in Helmand province. Officials told reporters of 25 killed Afghan soldiers.
Central Asia is the core region of the Asian continent and stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to China in the east and from Afghanistan in the south to Russia in the north. It is also sometimes referred to as Middle Asia, and, colloquially, "the 'stans" (as the six countries generally considered to be within the region all have names ending with the Persian suffix "-stan", meaning "land of") and is within the scope of the wider Eurasian continent.
Central Asia include five republics of the former Soviet Union: Kazakhstan (pop. 17 million), Kyrgyzstan (5.7 million), Tajikistan (8.0 million), Turkmenistan (5.2 million), and Uzbekistan (30 million), for a total population of about 66 million as of 2013–2014. Afghanistan (pop. 31.1 million) is also sometimes included. (wikipedia)
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