Security guard killed in shooting at Azerbaijan’s embassy in Iran
“The attacker broke through the guard post, killing the head of security with a Kalashnikov assault rifle,” Azerbaijan’s foreign ministry said....
Over 160 dead as unprecedented cold snap hits Afghanistan
The bitterly cold weather in Afghanistan this month has so far killed over 160 people in the country’s worst winter in the past 15 years...
Oldest, most complete unroyal mummy discovered in Egypt
Archaeologists said they are conducting further research on the mummy....
Profiling Hibatullah’s ‘right hand man’
The Taliban’s secretive leader is seldom seen in public and is known to let his special representative stand in for him at important meetings...
World Bank says Afghanistan’s revenue collection and exports remain strong
The bank says a stable exchange rate, anti-corruption efforts and other measures have enabled the Taliban to contain the economic decline...
Kabul still ‘in the dark’ as Uzbekistan fails to reconnect power supplies
Millions of residents in Afghanistan were promised that electricity would be back on by mid-week but so far Uzbekistan has failed to deliver...
We cannot abandon women of Afghanistan: UN deputy chief
Amina Mohammed met with various Taliban leaders in Kabul and Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan where he held talks with the Taliban’s deputy governor....
UNSC to convene meeting on Afghanistan
Amina Mohammad is expected to report back to the UN Security Council on her trip to Afghanistan where she met with a number of Taliban leaders...