2 year agoPresident Ashraf Ghani met with the Spanish Defence Minister María Margarita Robles Fernández at the Presidential Palace on Wednesday and discussed over development of relations, fighting against terrorism, peace process and reforms in security organization
McKenzie earlier estimated the size of the Taliban at 20,000 - later corrects himself and says 60,000 Taliban fighters out there.
Interior Ministry spokesman Najib Danish confirms that Tamim Shansab along with 18 armed men were arrested and that security situation is under control in Kabul's Shahr-e-Naw area.
Sgt. Jason Mitchell McClary, 24, from Export, Pennsylvania, died Dec. 2, 2018, in Landstuhl, Germany, as a result of injuries sustained from an improvised explosive device on Nov. 27, 2018, in Andar District, Ghazni Province, Afghanistan, DoD says.
Taliban claimed CP and reinforcements attacked in Hastogana area of Zurmat Paktia last night, 3 APCs destroyed, 7 soldiers along with 2 commanders (Sarchapa and Ghaffar) killed, multiple wounded.
Gazprom CEO Miller meets with President Berdymukhammedov as two countries negotiate resumption of Turkmen gas exports to Russia in 2019. Terms of Turkmen gas sales will be in accordance with current bilateral energy cooperation agreement until 2028.
One police killed, six others injured in Kabul clash: Interior Ministry
2 year agoVideo from Armed clash in Kabul. Still armed clash going on between Guard of former MOD minister Rahim Wardak's son and security forces in Shar e New Area. People were terrified،closing stores and leavening the Area.
2 year agoLIFTOFF. Shooting into the sky at 6:31am ET, the Soyuz rocket carrying @AstroAnnimal, @Astro_DavidS and Oleg Kononenko leaves Earth on six-hour journey to their new home on @Space_Station.
Launch key has been inserted. Launch sequence in automated mode. #SoyuzMS11
2 year agoClamshell gantry retraction is underway. #SoyuzMS11
NATO chief says ISIS in Afghanistan is working with the core ISIS in Levant
Killing of key Taliban commander Abdul Manan will have a significant impact on insecurity in certain provinces: Interior Ministry's spokesman
Afghan Taliban say it has shot down a U.S. Chinook helicopter during its landing in Nalyano area of Tagab district of Kapisa last night. Taliban are claiming all personnel aboard have been killed. No confirmation so far from NATO or Kabul admin.
An attack is currently taking place near the locality of the Afghan Attorney General office in Kabul city. Heavy gunfire reported.
2 year agoAfter protests broke out in support of a militia commander in Khanabad District, Taliban envoy trying to reach a deal with government. Offering to release ANDSF commandos in exchange for the ALP commander Navid.
2 year agoSamangan police confirmed that Taliban has released 45 truck drivers on Monday who were abducted in Dara-e-Soof district in the province on Sunday. The police said that "Taliban has asked drivers to pay money for each delivery of coal from the district".
ISKP has released a photo report showing the execution of a Taliban militant in Nangarhar.
2 year agoResolute Support releases a footage of a drone strike, targeting a Taliban center in Sangin district in Helmand. The Resolute Support says at least 29 Taliban militants were killed in the airstrike.
Abdul Manan Akhund's death a 'big loss', Taliban say
Key Taliban Member Killed In Helmand
2 year agoSoyuz MS-11 reaches launch pad. Liftoff - Monday
Militants suffer casualties in Badakhshan airstrike
2 year agoHundreds of people in Paktika staged protest against the killing of civilians by American and Afghan forces in Gomal district, at least 11 civilians were killed and wounded and many homes destroyed.
Earthquake of magnitude 4.7 - 34km WNW of `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan, Afghanistan
2 year agoRussia test-launched interceptor of "missile defense" system
It's propaganda
Islamic State (ISKP) claimed wounding three pro-govt Afghan militiamen in an IED blast in Nangarhar.
Taliban claimed another missile attack on Bagram airbase
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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