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Presidential Names Ordered for Ballot
The 11 Presidential candidates who made the Independent Election Commission's (IEC) final list last week gathered in Kabul for a meeting with elections officials on Monday regarding the ordering of...
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Rice to Meet Karzai in Kabul
U.S. National SecurityAdviser Susan Rice has arrived in Afghanistan and will meet with President Hamid Karzai, the White House said on Monday. "She will meet the president at his invitation," National...
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Violations Against Women Up 25 Percent in 2013: AIHRC
The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) on Monday announced a 25 percent jump in reported cases of human rights violations against women in Afghanistan in 2013. November 25 is the...
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Ghazni Man Calls for Justice After Daughter Flogged
A young girl was recently publicly flogged in Jaghori District of Ghazni province after a local cleric ordered the punishment based on allegations of her having sexual relations with a boy out of...
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Parties, Analysts Pan Karzai and His 'Preconditions'
A number of political parties and analysts have spoken out against President Hamid Karzai's recent statements regarding delaying the signing of the Kabul-Washington security pact until after the April...
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TOLOnews 6 pm News 25 November 2013
Top news in this Bulletin:A number of political parties and analysts have spoken out against President Hamid Karzai's recent statements regarding delaying the signing of the Kabul-Washington security...
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Candidates' Silence on BSA Rebuked
Civil society activists have criticized Presidential candidates for not weighing in on the debate surrounding the Kabul-Washington security pact. As the accord is expected to be a major factor in the...
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Obama: Iran Deal 'An Important First Step'
President Barack Obama hailed an historic interim deal with Iran Saturday as "an important first step" towards a comprehensive pact to end the showdown over Teheran?s nuclear program. The president...
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Karzai Meets Rice, Stands by Refusal to Sign BSA
Afghan President Hamid Karzai met U.S. National Security Advisor Susan Rice Monday evening and refused to back down on his decision not to sign the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) by the end of the...
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6 Insurgents Killed, 5 Injured in Badghis Clash
Local officials of western Badghis province on Tuesday confirmed the deaths of six Taliban insurgents during a clash with the Afghan security forces that took place on Monday night. The officials said...
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No 'Magic Wand' To Satisfy Conditions Overnight: Rice
U.S. National Security Advisor Susan Rice early Tuesday in an exclusive interview with TOLOnews said that "we have no magic wand" to bring peace and broker a deal with the Taliban to convince...
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Baghlan Local Police Accused of Killing Young Boy and Girl
Local Police officers in Baghlan killed a young boy and a girl who ran away from home on Saturday night, according to local reports. Members of the Provincial Council told TOLOnews that the two ran...
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Journalists Demand Investigation Into Unsolved Murders
The Afghanistan Journalists Center has demanded law enforcement in Afghanistan pursue cases of murder and violence against journalists more rigorously, calling the culture of crime against members of...
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TOLOnews 6 pm News 26 November 2013
U.S. National Security Advisor Susan Rice early Tuesday in an exclusive interview with TOLOnews said that "we have no magic wand" to bring peace and broker a deal with the Taliban to convince...
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Karzai Taking BSA 'Hostage': Senators
A number of Afghan Senators on Tuesday came out in condemnation of President Hamid Karzai's recent assertions that he would not sign the Kabul-Washington security pact until after the April elections,...
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Four Reasons Why Afghanistan Must Sign the Bilateral Security Agreement
This week, about 2,500 representatives from across Afghanistan gathered in a Loya Jirga ("Grand Assembly" in Pashto) to make one of the most important decisions in the country's modern history –...
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US Defies China's Fly Zone With B-52 Flight
Two American B-52 bombers flew over a disputed area of the East China Sea without informing Beijing, challenging China's claims to an expanded air defense zone, officials said. The flight of the...
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Gunmen Kill 37 in Central Nigeria Attack
Gunmen in central Nigeria's Plateau state killed 37 people in a pre-dawn raid Tuesday, the military said, the latest unrest to hit the area gripped by a decade-long sectarian conflict. "At about 2:00...
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20 Insurgents, 10 Police Killed in Nuristan Operation
Local officials of Nuristan province on Wednesday confirmed that 20 insurgents and 10 police were killed and 34 others including four police were injured during an operation in the Kamdish District....
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Gunmen Kill Tribal Elder in Helmand
Local officials of southern Helmand province confirmed today that a tribal elder named Abdul Satar was shot dead by unidentified gunmen on Tuesday night. The incident took place in Lashkargah city,...
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