Afghanistan

KABUL, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- Personnel of the Afghan National Army have taken 530 individuals into custody in western Afghanistan's Herat province over the past two days for attempting to cross the border into neighboring Iran illegally, according to a statement from the army's western region command on Friday. The statement noted that the individuals were […]

KABUL, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- Afghan authorities have begun construction of a major road in Helmand province at a cost of 575 million afghanis (nearly 8 million U.S. dollars), local media outlet Tolo News reported Friday. The 26.5-kilometer road will connect mountainous and underdeveloped northern districts to the provincial capital, Lashkar Gah, the report […]

KABUL, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- A cold storage facility and a fresh fruit processing plant were officially inaugurated on Friday in Maidan Wardak, the capital of eastern Afghanistan's Wardak province, local media Tolo news reported. The project, built at a cost of approximately 1 million U.S. dollars, has the capacity to store nearly 2,000 metric tons of […]

President Donald Trump has ordered a suspension of the U.S. diversity visa lottery program, following the shootings at Brown University and MIT carried out by Portuguese national Claudio Neves Valente. The Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem, confirmed the directive on the social platform X, stating that the suspect 'should never have been allowed in […]

As the world marked International Migrants Day on Thursday, the unfolding narrative in Afghanistan was one of resilience and uncertainty. Amid the forced return of thousands from neighboring countries, many families are coming back to a homeland that they barely know. #GLOBALink

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Udhampur (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], December 19 (ANI): The Udhampur health department announced on Thursday that a Pulse Polio Immunisation drive will be conducted from December 21 to 23.Shedding light on the specifications of the drive, Chief Medical Officer Dr Anil Manhas told ANI, 'For the drive, we have set up 535 pulse polio booths in the district […]

KABUL, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- Afghan authorities have completed the construction of 19 schools in various districts across Laghman province this year, according to a report from the official Bakhtar news agency on Friday. The projects, which were fully funded by the government, aim to strengthen the region's educational infrastructure and provide greater […]

KABUL, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- A relatively strong earthquake struck Afghan capital Kabul and its vicinity at 10:04 a.m. local time on Friday. A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck the Hindu Kush mountain region in northern Afghanistan, according to the German Research Centre for Geosciences. No reports of casualties have been recorded so far.

KABUL, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- A relatively strong earthquake sturck Afghan capital Kabul and its vicinity at 10:04 a.m. local time on Friday.

KABUL, 19th December, 2025 (WAM) -- An earthquake measuring 5.7 magnitude struck Afghanistan's Hindu Kush region on Friday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said.The quake hit at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), according to GFZ.

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Geneva, 18 December 2025: The year 2025 emerged as the deadliest year for journalists since the beginning of the century, after 2024. According to the tally of the Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), 161 media professionals were killed in 31 countries (179 in 2024). At least 60 journalists were killed in the Gaza Strip, almost all of them victims of Israeli […]

New Delhi [India], December 18 (ANI): India reaffirmed its continued commitment to supporting Afghanistan's health sector and humanitarian needs during a meeting between Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Jagat Prakash Nadda and Afghanistan's Minister of Public Health Mawlawi Noor Jalal Jalali, according to an official release.During the meeting, […]