An Afghan man accused of attempting to smuggle large shipments of heroin into the United States to benefit the Islamic Emirate and Haqqani Network has been sentenced to 30 years in prison, the U.S. Justice Department said on Friday.

Haji Abdul Satar Abdul Manaf, 59, also known as Haji Abdul Sattar Barakzai, was convicted in August after a two-week...

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Afghanistan&s Gulbadin Naib was fined 15% of his match fee for protesting against the umpire&s decision in the second T20I match against Zimbabwe in Harare, the International Cricket Council said on Saturday.

The violation occurred in the 11th over of Zimbabwe&s batting innings when the umpire rejected an lbw appeal against...

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Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, attended a mourning ceremony on Saturday in honor of the martyred Minister of Refugees and Repatriation, Khalil ur-Rahman Haqqani, held in the Garda Serai district of Paktia province, according to a statement from the Deputy Prime Minister&s office.

During the ceremony,...

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Thousands gathered in northwestern Syria on Friday for weekly prayers and a rally where clerics in the port city of Latakia, a previous fortress of ousted President Bashar al-Assad, prompted nationwide unity under the country&& s brand-new government. & Freedom forever in spite of Assad, & some in the crowd at the square outside Al-Ajjan mosque ...

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China&& s unique envoy for Afghanistan, Yue Xiaoyong, on Friday met the head of the Department of Strategic Studies of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan, Sharaf Rahimi.Yue Xiaoyong stated on X that the 2 sides had a great talk on cooperation to help Afghanistan & s reconstruction.Tajikistan & rsquo

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The United Nations Security Council on Friday extended for 14 months the mandate of the group tracking sanctions versus the Islamic Emirate.Unanimously embracing resolution 2763 (2024 ), the 15-member organ decided that the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team will continue to support the Security Council Committee established pursuant ...

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