KABUL—At least 78 people have died of cold in Afghanistan during the country’s worst winter in more than a decade, authorities said on Thursday. Deaths from the cold have been recorded in eight of the country’s 34 Provinces, officials said. The coldest winter in 15 years, which has seen temperatures dip as low as -34…
Gunmen Assassinate Female Former Afghan Lawmaker
ISLAMABAD—Taliban authorities in Afghanistan said Sunday unknown assailants shot dead a female former lawmaker alongside her bodyguard in her home in the capital, Kabul. Mursal Nabizada, 32, had been elected as a member of the national parliament before the Islamist Taliban seized power from the internationally backed Afghan government in August 2021 as all U.S.-led…
ISIS Claims Responsibility for Kabul Attack That Killed 5
KABUL, Afghanistan—The ISIS terrorist group claimed responsibility Thursday for a deadly bombing that killed at least five people near the Foreign Ministry in the Afghan capital the previous day. The bombing was the second major attack in Kabul in 2023 and drew condemnation from the international community. The extremist group said in a statement that…
Pakistan Frees 524 Afghan Illegal Immigrants From Karachi Jail
KARACHI, Pakistan—Afghan authorities said on Saturday that 524 Afghan illegal immigrants have been released from a jail in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi. Pakistani police in multiple raids last month detained at least 1,200 Afghan nationals who entered Karachi without valid travel documents. A video shared by the embassy on Twitter showed women…
Taliban Signs First Foreign Deal With China for Oil Extraction Project
The Taliban regime in Afghanistan has signed an oil extraction agreement with China’s Xinjiang Central Asia Petroleum and Gas Co (CAPEIC), the country’s first major foreign deal since the Taliban seized control in 2021. Under the contract, the CAPEIC will invest $150 million in one year and $540 million in the next three years for…
Afghan Hospital Wards Fill With Children Suffering From Pneumonia
KABUL—In a bitterly cold bedroom at the start of winter in Kabul, 22-year Maryam sat with her baby son bundled up in a red jumper as he coughed days after being discharged for the third time from a hospital ward for suspected pneumonia. Every time 10-month old Rahmat’s parents bring him home from the crowded,…
Afghan Taliban Kill 8 in Raids of ISIS Hideouts in Afghanistan
ISLAMABAD—Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban killed eight Islamic State militants and arrested nine others in a series of raids targeting key figures in a spate of attacks in Kabul, a senior Taliban government spokesman said Thursday. Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman for the Taliban government, said the raids in the capital city and western Nimroz province on Wednesday targeted…
ISIS Claims Responsibility for Kabul Attack
RIYADH/KABUL—ISIS terrorist group on Monday claimed responsibility for an attack on Taliban forces in Kabul. The terrorist group said on Telegram that the attack on Sunday had killed 20 people and wounded 30. A spokesman for Afghanistan’s Taliban-run interior ministry said an explosion outside the military airport in the capital Kabul had caused multiple casualties….
Taliban: Kabul Checkpoint Bomb Blast Kills, Wounds Several
KABUL, Afghanistan—A bomb exploded near a checkpoint at Kabul’s military airport Sunday morning killing and wounding “several” people, Taliban said, the first deadly blast of 2023 in Afghanistan. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but the regional affiliate of the ISIS terrorist group—known as ISIS in Khorasan Province—has increased its attacks since the…
Women, Children Among 1,200 Afghan Illegal Immigrants Jailed in Pakistan
KARACHI, Pakistan—Pakistani police in multiple raids detained at least 1,200 Afghan nationals, including women and children, who had entered the southern port city of Karachi without valid travel documents, officials said Thursday. The arrests brought criticism from around Afghanistan after images of locked up Afghan children were circulated online. The detentions underscored the strained relations…
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