Section: Afghanistan
Terrorism Threats Remain in Region, Also In Afghanistan: Obama
President Barack Obama addressed a variety of national security topics during his live multimedia Worldwide Troop Talk at Fort Meade in the United States on Friday and said that despite their continued war against terrorism significant threats from terrorist organizations persist in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and North Africa. In a U.S Department...
Moscow Ready to Hand Over Ukrainian Freed in Afghanistan to Kiev
Ukrainian citizen, Dmytro Bilyi, was realeased in the result of a joint effort of Russia and Afghanistan. MOSCOW: Moscow is ready to hand a liberated Ukrainian national, Dmytro Bilyi, who had been kidnapped by Afghan insurgents, over to Ukrainian diplomats after Russia had assisted in his release, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Saturday. “We...
Diplomatic Equations on Syria Changing
By Manish Rai The recent diplomatic activity on Syria is intriguing. Russia, Mr. Assad’s most powerful supporter, has forged new ties with Saudi Arabia, his bitter foe and a major funder of Syrian rebel groups, and brokered a meeting between Syrian and Saudi intelligence officials. Even amid high tensions over Ukraine, there was a recent...
Russia’s Lavrov Talks with Ukraine, US, German Counterparts
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held separate talks Saturday with his Ukraine, US and German counterparts, the Kremlin announced, as fighting spikes in eastern Ukraine. During the telephone calls with Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin and Germany’s Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Lavrov called for the Ukrainian army “to...
Obama Calls Putin to Discuss Iran Deal: White House
President Barack Obama spoke by phone Wednesday with Vladimir Putin, thanking his Russian counterpart for his role in reaching a deal on Iran’s nuclear program. US ties with Russia have been strained to breaking point over the war in Ukraine, but Russia was an “important” part of the group of nations that negotiated the deal...
Iran Nuclear Talks Will Reach Compromise ‘Soon’: Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday he believed global powers and Iran will “soon” reach a compromise in talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme. “A compromise should be found,” Putin said after hosting a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in the Urals city of Ufa, where he met with Iranian...
Congo Virus Spreads Through Herat, Claims 10 More Lives: Officials
At least six women and four men have so far died of fatal Congo virus in western Herat as the province saw 32 suspected cases over the past two months, provincial health officials said Thursday. The Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) virus have been recently reported and confirmed by health officials in Kabul, Herat, Nangarhar, Helmand and...
Eight Died of Congo Virus in Afghanistan: Health Ministry
The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) officials on Monday confirmed outbreak of a fatal virus in Afghanistan that has claimed lives of eight people so far this year. The Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) virus have been reported and confirmed in Kabul, Herat, Nangarhar, Helmand and Nuristan provinces, MoPH spokesman Wahidullah Mayar told...
Conflicting reports surface about congo fever among Afghans
By Fazlur Rehman Zarghooni on 27 June 2015 KABUL (Pajhwok): Three Afghan patients with Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) have been transferred to Hayat Medical Complex (HMC) in Peshawar, provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, for treatment but Afghanistan’s Ministry of Health rejected presence of the viral disease in the...
Conflicting reports about congo fever among Afghan patients
By Fazlur Rehman Zarghooni on 27 June 2015 KABUL (Pajhwok): Three Afghan patients with Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) have been transferred to Hayat Medical Complex (HMC) in Peshawar, provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, for treatment but Afghanistan’s Ministry of Health rejected presence of the viral disease in the...
