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A Russian-registered charter plane with six people on board disappeared from radar screens over Afghanistan a day earlier, Russian aviation authorities said on Sunday, after Afghan police said they had received reports of a crash. The plane was a charter…

The Afghanistan Journalists Center has reported the detention of two journalists in Kabul, stating that they were summoned and subsequently detained by the intelligence agency of the Taliban. According to the center’s news release, on Thursday, Ahmed Jawad Rasouli and…

Local authorities in Kunar province report that an explosion in the province has claimed three lives and left six individuals injured. The security commander in Kunar province mentioned that this incident took place on Saturday, January 20th, in the “Trink”…

A polio programme official was killed and a policeman sustained injuries on Friday after unidentified assailants opened fire on a vehicle in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bajaur district. According to the police statement, unknown gunmen opened fire on Dr. Abdul Rehman’s…

The office of Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Sadiq al-Shirazi in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, distributed 75 tons of coal among needy families, orphans and scholars of Mazar-e-Sharif. According to a statement by Sheikh Mohammad Rahmani followed by Shia Waves Agency on Friday, the…

The UN Development Programme (UNDP) stated in a report released Thursday that Afghanistan’s economic recovery depends on international support for boosting productivity and reinstating women’s rights. The report, “Two Years in Review: Changes in Afghan Economy, Households and Cross Cutting…

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) will soon establish approximately a thousand educational classes in Afghanistan, Khaama Press reported. According to the article, the initiative, revealed on Wednesday, January 17th, aims to provide learning opportunities for around 140,000 children in…

On Thursday morning, January 18, Pakistan launched a series of military strikes on what it said were separatist militant hideouts situated in the southeast of Iran, according to CNN. These attacks were seemingly carried out in response to Iran’s attacks…

Nine people, including a traffic policeman and three children, were injured in a blast on Quetta’s Zarghoon Road on Wednesday, Dawn reported today. According to the police, the explosive material was planted in a heap of trash that had been…

Iran used “precision missile and drone strikes,” to destroy two strongholds of the Sunni militant group Jaish al-Adl, in the Koh-e-Sabz area of Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan province, according to Iran’s state-aligned Tasnim news agency. The Tuesday night attack, which reportedly…