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At least 19 Taliban insurgents were killed and 38 others wounded in clashes with Afghan security forces in Khakrez district of southern Kandahar province, local officials said. Nazar Ali, the district police chief told Ariana News that the clash broke out after a large number of militants attacked security outpost …

A Taliban Shadow district governor for WorMamay was killed during ground and air operations by Afghan forces in eastern Paktika province, Defense Ministry (MoD) said in a statement. In a statement released on Saturday, MoD said that the operations were conducted in Wazakha district of the province. During the operations, …

Afghan Delegates left Kabul for Qatar on Saturday morning to attend the intra-Afghan dialogue conference. The conference is scheduled for July 7-8 in Doha, the capital of Qatar, where the Afghan and Taliban representatives will discuss peace. Deputies of High Peace Council, Ata-ur-Rahman Saleem, former Afghan ambassador to Pakistan, Omar …

The officials of Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Investment (ACCI) say that the season for harvesting the melon and grape fruits has come but they are concerned about the lack of markets for these fruits. They add that there are good markets for the melon and grape fruits especially in …

Some of the journalists and cameramen of the media including Ariana News were mistreated by the Kabul Police on Friday while covering an incident. They say that one of the Kabul Police senior officer’ bodyguards mistreated and abused them while they were covering the police raid on Ataturk High School …

The intra-Afghan summit is supposed to be held on upcoming Sunday and Monday in Doha in absence of the official Afghan government delegates. The people who have been invited to the summit are expecting that the U.S. and the Taliban reach an agreement in their seventh round of talks before …

The car of Pacha, the PD8 Security Manager of Jalalabad, was targeted by a roadside bomb in the Bengah area of Behsood district in Nengarhar province on Friday.  The National Directorate of Security (NDS) officials say that Mr. Pacha alongside his driver killed and two of his bodyguards wounded in …

At least 17 Taliban militants were killed and 14 others wounded in clashes with Afghan security forces in Maiwand district of Kandahar province, local officials said on Friday. Haji Lala, district governor of Maiwand told Ariana News that clashes broke out after a large group of Taliban attacked five security …

Afghan police surrounded the Afghan-Turk High School building in the capital Kabul city early on Friday morning. Kabul police forces do not allow anyone to enter or leave the school premises. According to police, they have orders to hand over the school to the Turkish government. Meanwhile, a number of …

A group of Afghan girls in western Herat province have designed more than 25 computer and mobile games to fight opium and inequality. Most of these girls have studied computer science in the capital city of Herat. They have designed several popular games including the “Afghan Hero girl” and the …

The U.S. and Taliban negotiating teams are meeting in Doha, the capital of Qatar behind closed doors in a bid to end the 18-year war in Afghanistan. Suhail Shaheen, the Taliban’s political spokesman in Qatar on Thursday told Ariana News correspondent in Doha that the withdrawal of foreign forces from …

A key Taliban commander along with five of his militants were killed in an airstrike conducted by the NATO’s Resolute Support Mission in western Herat province. Jailani Farhad, the provincial governor spokesman said Mullah Fazel Ahmad also known as Hujrat was killed in Ali Abad village of Zairkoh district in …

The Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Salahuddin Rabbani met with the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan John Bass on Wednesday in Kabul, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) said in a statement. During the meeting, the two sides discussed the Afghan peace process and the upcoming presidential elections. “The US Ambassador …

A lawyer for the former head of the Afghan Football Federation Karamuddin Karim on Wednesday rejected the allegations of sexual abuse against his client, saying they were based on ghost stories. Speaking at a press conference in Kabul, Ivo Signmond, a Dutch lawyer representing Karim, said that the allegations were …

President Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday said that the people of Afghanistan want peace but he will not deal over the Afghan security forces in the peace process. Speaking at the 205th Atal Corps in Kandahar province, President Ghani said that the Afghan security forces will not reduce after a possible …

Former President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday reacted to the latest remarks of the U.S. President Donald Trump about Afghanistan. Recently, Trump described Afghanistan as a “lab for terrorists,” adding that if the United States withdrew its military forces from the country, he would still leave a “strong intelligence” presence behind. …

The Afghan special forces destroyed the biggest cache of arms and ammunition of the Taliban insurgent group during an operation in southern Helmand province, the Afghan intelligence agency said in a statement on Wednesday. According to the National Directorate of Security (NDS), the operation was conducted by NDS Special Forces …

A huge fire broke out at a fuel storage tank in Mazar-e-Sharif City on Wednesday noon. The fire broke out at around 12 pm today in Taimorian fuel storage tank. Immediately there was no report of casualty. The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained. The firefighters were …

At the head of a high-ranking delegation, President Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday traveled to the Kandahar province in the south. Following his arrival to the province, President Ghani officially renamed Kandahar Airport after Ahmad Shah Baba. He also inaugurated the newly-constructed Kandahar Airport Road and named it after later General …

President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday asked the international community and electoral watchdogs to monitor the upcoming presidential election of Afghanistan. According to a statement released by the presidential palace, President Ghani raised the issue during a joint meeting between the Independent Election Commission (IEC), the international community and the government …