‘Our inspiration is Afghanistan’ – East Timorese hope to copy cricket rise
AFP | Navigating pigs and goats as they practise on a dusty paddock, a group of young East Timorese are hoping to copy the fairy-tale...
Pashtun laborers killed in Afghanistan: Why is PTM silent?
News Desk | Afghan security forces have killed eight innocent Pakistani tribesmen in Paktika province of Afghanistan, Khyber News reported on Monday. According to Khyber...
Taliban leader Omar lived next to US Afghan base: biography
AFP | Taliban founder Mullah Omar lived within walking distance of US bases in Afghanistan for years, according to a new book that highlights embarrassing...
Bloody spring offensive continues in Afghanistan despite dialogue
News Analysis | The commemoration of the 24th death anniversary of Shiite Hazara Leader Abdul Ali Mazari in Kabul Afghanistan was interrupted with mortars which...
At least 23 Afghan security forces killed in Taliban attack on US-Afghan base
AFP | At least 23 Afghan security forces were killed in a Taliban attack on a joint US-Afghan base in southwestern Afghanistan, officials said Friday,...
US offers $1 million reward to find bin Laden son
AFP | The United States on Thursday offered a $1 million reward for information on a son of late Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, seeing...
Afghan Government joins India in stirring up anti-Pakistan propaganda?
News Analysis | On Wednesday, the Afghan Foreign Ministry criticized Pakistani Ambassador Zahid Nasrullah’s comments that an Indian military on Pakistan would undermine the Afghan-Taliban...
The Taliban have not changed, warn Afghans living under their rule
AFP | Ali Ahmad Alizai has no choice but to obey when the Taliban come knocking on his door demanding food, shelter or a slice...
Taliban confront fake news and social media in propaganda war
AFP | Fighting "fake" news, wrestling with social media, and deploying an intern army -- the Taliban's sprawling propaganda machine embraces modernity even as the...
Taliban announce talks with US in Islamabad
AFP | The Taliban said Wednesday that its negotiators would meet US envoys for talks this month in Islamabad, and also sit down with Pakistan...
Afghan ex-mujahideen remember Soviet defeat in ‘graveyard of empires’
AFP | The last time Abdul Karim saw Soviet forces he was a teenage mujahideen fighter shivering on an Afghan mountainside, clutching his Kalashnikov and...
‘Tired of fighting’: 30 years ago, Soviets withdraw from Afghanistan
AFP | On February 15, 1989, crowds of stunned onlookers watched the last Soviet troops leave Afghanistan over the Friendship Bridge -- defeated after a...