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KABUL – Residents in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Thursday said that the COVID-19 deaths and the number of active cases are much higher than the figures given by the Ministry of Health. They said that people even in remote regions of the country have the symptoms of the virus, but …

KABUL – As part of the European Union’s (EU) global coronavirus response, an “EU Humanitarian Air Bridge” flight departed on Monday from Maastricht, Netherlands bound for Kabul, Afghanistan, the EU said in a statement. The shipment includes “100 tons of life-saving materials to supply EU-funded humanitarian partners,” the statement said. …

KABUL – Pakistan on Sunday strongly condemned terrorist attacks on Wazir Akbar Khan and Sher Shah Suri mosques in Kabul. These heinous acts on the mosques resulted in the martyrdom of renowned religious scholars Dr Ayaz Niazi and Maulavi Azizullah Mofleh and claimed the lives of other innocent worshippers. “We …

KABUL – An explosion occurred at Sher Shah Suri Mosque in Kart-e-Char area in the west of Kabul as people were partaking in the Friday prayer, 10 days after an explosion at a mosque in downtown Kabul left two dead and several others wounded. Among the four killed was the …

KABUL – Haidari Wujodi, a mystic poet and a well-known scholar in Afghanistan died of COVID-19 at the age of 81, sources confirmed. Haidari Wujodi was born in 1939, in a small village in Panjshir Province in northern Afghanistan, one of five children of a cleric. In those days the …

KABUL – A top Russian diplomat says Russia, the United States, and Afghanistan will hold video consultations to try and jump-start intra-Afghan peace talks. Zamir Kabulov, who is Russia’s presidential envoy on issues related to Afghanistan and the director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s second department of Asia, told Russian …

KABUL – The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) on Sunday reported 791 new positive cases of COVID-19 from 1,427 samples tested in the last 24 hours. Kabul was on the top of the list with 313 new positive cases followed by Khost (128), Herat (94), Kandahar (79), Balkh (7), Nangarhar …

HERAT – A group of Afghan girls fashion makeshift ventilators from car parts, bike chains and machine sensors to provide some help in country’s looming coronavirus crisis. The five teens, who live in Herat province, are part of the Afghan Girls Robotics Team – an initiative that teaches schoolgirls programming …

KABUL – An explosion at Wazir Akbar Khan Mosque in downtown Kabul on Tuesday evening left two dead and eight others wounded, according to a statement by the Ministry of Interior Affairs. The explosion happened at around 7:30 Kabul time. The explosives were placed in the yard of the mosque, …

KABUL – The deadly coronavirus is unprecedentedly spreading in Afghanistan, with the latest reports suggesting that 866 test positive in the past 24 hours. Now, according to official reports, the total number of the coronavirus cases is 14,525. The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) says that the recent cases are …