As the one-year anniversary of the American withdrawal from Afghanistan approaches, US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said this week that keeping American troops in Afghanistan &could not be justified& and no amount of American military presence led to victory after 20 years.

&It had to come to an end,& he said at...

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Flash Floods have killed at least 13 people and injured 20 in ten provinces of Afghanistan, state ministry for disaster management reported Sunday. 

The Ministry of Disaster Management said that the floods have also caused huge financial losses in these provinces.

As a result of the floods, several sections along the Kabul-Jalalabad highway...

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The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) will purge police in northern Badakhshan province again, officials said this week.

In line with this, a delegation from the Ministry of Interior visited Badakhshan to implement the new organizational structure of provincial police.

Deputy Interior Minister Mohammad Hasan Hashimi said that security forces in...

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A two-day international conference on Afghanistan&s security and economic growth will begin in Uzbekistan on Monday.

According to Hafiz Zia Ahmadi, a deputy spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, representatives of the Afghan government led by Amir Khan Muttaqi, acting Minister of Foreign Affairs have been invited to the conference....

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Small-scale farmers are expected to harvest about 150,000 tons of grapes in Herat province this year, agriculture department officials said Sunday. 

The Herat Department of Agriculture and Livestock said more than 60 percent of these grapes will become raisins and then exported.

&We are now in the grape harvest season; fortunately, Herat...

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The Secretary General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Ambassador Zhang Ming, met with Pakistan&s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Friday where they discussed issues of regional importance including the situation in Afghanistan. 

According to a statement issued by the Pakistan foreign ministry, Zardari reaffirmed...

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