Kabul, Nov 30 (IBNS): A Taliban ambush in Afghanistan's Shindand district left the intelligence chief for western Herat province killed, media reports said on Friday.

Kabul, Nov 30 (IBNS) : At least 12 militants were killed in an airstrike carried out by the U.S. forces in southeastern Ghazni province of Afghanistan.

Kabul, Nov 29 (IBNS) : At least 27 militants of the Red Unit of Taliban were killed during the airstrikes in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.

Kabul, Nov 29 (IBNS): A car-bomb exploded outside a  foreigners’ camp in Afghanistan's Kabul city on Wednesday which left at least 11 people injured, media reports said.

New York, Nov 29 (IBNS): Afghanistan has undertaken significant reforms which the international community will continue to support long after peace is secured in the war-torn country, a top UN official pledged on Wednesday.

Kabul, Nov 28 (IBNS): The 20th instance of polio has been reported from Afghanistan this year, officials said.

Kathmandu, Nov 28 (IBNS): An American climber died  on Mt Ama Dablam in Nepal on Wednesday, media reports said.

Islamabad, Nov 28 (IBNS): In a major development, Pakistan PM Imran Khan on Wednesday  performed the groundbreaking of the corridor connecting Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur area of his nation.

Kabul, Nov 28 (IBNS) :At least 28 militants were killed during the separate operations conducted by the Afghan and U.S. forces in eastern Nangarhar and northeastern Kapisa provinces of the country.

Kabul, Nov 28 (IBNS): At least 25 passengers were kidnapped by suspected terrorists from  Zari district of northern Balkh province in Afghanistan on Tuesday, media reports said.

New York, Nov 28 (IBNS): high-level international conference on Afghanistan got underway at the UN in Geneva on Tuesday to show solidarity for the war-torn country’s people and help strengthen Government efforts to promote development, along with wider peace and security.

Kabul, Nov  27 (IBNS): Three US service members were killed and four others, including a contractor, injured in an IED blast close to Afghanistan's Ghazni city, media reports said on Tuesday.

Islamabad, Nov 27 (IBNS): The Pakistan Foreign Office on Tuesday said it has lodged 'strong protest' with the Bangladesh's authorities over the burglary incident in the Pakistan High Commission in Dhaka.

Kabul, Nov 27 (IBNS): At least 16 militants were killed or wounded during a raid conducted by the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces in northern Balkh province of Afghanistan.

Karachi, Nov 26 (IBNS): Firefighters have extinguished the blaze which broke out on the eighth floor of Karachi's under-construction Bahria Icon Tower, media reports said on Monday.

Dhaka, Nov 26 (IBNS): Bangladesh security forces have claimed to have arrested  eight members of banned militant outfit “Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh’s Radical Youth Group” from country's capital city Dhaka, media reports said.

Mumbai, Nov 25 (IBNS): Marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and the start of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, the United Nations in Afghanistan calls on everyone to respect, promote and protect the rights of women and girls to end violence against women.

Kabul, Nov 25 (IBNS): The Afghanistan military said a spokesperson of the terrorist group ISIS has been killed during an operation in the Haska Mena district of eastern Nangarhar province of the country, media reports said on Sunday.

New York, Nov 25 (IBNS): The United Nations Security Council has condemned “in the strongest terms” Friday’s terrorist attacks in Pakistan’s Karachi city and in the north-western province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa that claimed dozens of lives and left many more injured.

Kabul, Nov 24 (IBNS): Unknown gunmen killed the head of Kabul Ulema Council, Mawlawi Abdul Basir Haqqani, in Afghanistan capital's Chehel Sutun area, media reports said on Saturday.

Kabul, Nov 24 (IBNS): At least two people died as an Afghan National Army (ANA)’s helicopter crash-landed in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province on Saturday, media reports said.

Karachi, Nov 24 (IBNS): A woman SP, who led the security force that foiled the terror attack on the Chinese consulate in Pakistan's Karachi city on Friday, has earned appreciations from different corners of the south Asian nation for her bravery.

New York, Nov 24 (IBNS): United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has condemned terrorist attacks in the Pakistani city of Karachi and at a market in the north-west province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and expressed hope that those behind the acts will be swiftly brought to justice.

Islamabad, Nov 24 (IBNS): The death toll in the suicide blast which hit a local market in lower Orakzai district of Pakistan has touched 33, media reports said on Saturday.

Kabul, Nov 24 (IBNS): A blast inside a military mosque in Afghanistan's southern Khost province on Friday left at least 27 Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers killed, media reports said.

Kabul, Nov 23 (IBNS):  Ten Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers were killed and 20 others injured as a blast rocked a mosque in Afghanistan's southeastern Khost province on Friday, media reports said.

Karachi, Nov 23 (IBNS): Two terror attacks rocked Pakistan on the same day on Friday killing at least 32 peopole, with the Chinese consulate in Karachi city being the target in one of the incidents, prompting Prime Minister Imran Khan to condemn them with strong words.

Islamabad, Nov 23 (IBNS): Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday condemned the attacks in Karachi and Orakzai areas of the country and said they were done with the intention of creating unrest in the nation.

Islamabad, Nov 23 (IBNS): At least 30 people were killed as a blast rocked a marketplace in Pakistan's Lower Orakzai area on Friday, media reports said.

Kabul, Nov 23 (IBNS) : Dozens of militants have been killed or wounded during the operations in northern Balkh and Faryab provinces, Local Khaama press quoted the Afghan Military as saying.

Karachi, Nov 23 (IBNS): Two policemen were killed and one security guard was injured in an attack on the Chinese Consulate in Pakistan's Karachi on Friday even as the strike was claimed by a separatist group in Balochistan, where Chinese involvement in infrastructure project is fiercely opposed by the Baluchis seeking independence from Pakistan. 

Karachi, Nov 23 (IBNS): Two policemen were killed in a firing near Chinese Consulate in Pakistan's Karachi on Friday, media reports said.

Kabul, Nov 22 (IBNS) :At least 45 Taliban militants including four of their commanders renounced violence and joined peace process, the local officials said Thursday.

Kabul, Nov 21 (IBNS): A roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province left at least three policemen killed, media reports said.

Islamabad, Nov 21 (IBNS): An explosion rocked a mosque in Balochistan's Chaman area in Pakistan on Wednesday, leaving at least seven people hurt, media reports said.

New York, Nov 21 (IBNS): Responding to the deaths of at least 40 people and the wounding of at least 60 in a bomb attack at a religious event in Kabul on Tuesday, Amnesty International’s Deputy South Asia Director Omar Waraich said

Swat, Nov 21 (IBNS):  An old mortar shell exploded in Pakistan's Swat’s Matta Tehsil area which left a least three children killed, media reports said.

Kabul, Nov 21 (IBNS): The death toll in the blast incident which rocked Afghanistan capital Kabul city on Tuesday has touched 50, media reports said.

Kabul, Nov 20 (IBNS): At least 40 people were killed as a blast rocked Afghanistan's capital city Kabul on Tuesday, media report said.

Kabul,Nov 20 (IBNS) : The Afghan Military in the East claims at least 51 militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group have been killed in Haska Mina district of Nangarhar province.

Islamabad, Nov 19 (IBNS): A Hindu woman, who also became the first female senator from the Dalit community in Pakistan, has found a place in the BBC's  100 inspiring and influential women list.

Islamabad, Nov 19 (IBNS): PM Imran Khan on Monday countered US president Donald Trump over slamming his nation and said he should not make Pakistan a 'scapegoat' for their failures.

Islamabad, Nov 19 (IBNS): A delegation of Pakistan's ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party on Monday left for China, media reports said.

Islamabad, Nov 19 (IBNS): The Pakistan Foreign Office on Saturday confirmed that Pakistani student Usama Ahmad Khan had committed 'suicide' in China.

Kabul, Nov 19 (IBNS): Unknown gunmen on Monday shot dead three passengers in Afghanistan's Ghor province, media reports said.

Islamabad, Nov 18 (IBNS): An IED blast in Pakistan's Quetta area on Sunday left at least three security personnel dead, media reports said.

Kabul, Nov 18 (IBNS):  A district chief and intelligence director in Afghanistan were killed in a bomb blast in the country's central Logar province, media reports said on Sunday.

Washington, Nov 18 (IBNS): A top US military official has said that Taliban "are not losing" in the Asian nation of Afghanistan.

Islamabad, Nov 18 (IBNS): Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday met Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan during his one-day tour to the UAE.

Kabul, Nov 17 (IBNS); The Afghanistan government has said it is going to recruit 30,000 female teachers within five years.