The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) has helped end a longstanding dispute between two tribes in eastern Paktia province.

Members of the Saro Kheil and Sultan Kheil tribes, who had a 60-year dispute, gathered at a ceremony in Gerda Seray district of Paktia and reconciled with each other.

During the event, Anas Haqqani, a senior member of the...

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As many as 60 people were feared to have been killed in the Russian bombing of a village school in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, the regional governor said on Sunday.

Governor Serhiy Gaidai said Russian forces dropped a bomb on Saturday afternoon on the school in Bilohorivka where about 90 people were sheltering, causing a fire that...

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The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan&s (IEA) order Saturday for women to wear a burqa in public has sparked widespread reaction from around the world.

Among thse who have expressed concern are the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), the UN&s Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, and the US special envoy for Afghan...

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Health officials in the northern province of Kunduz said Sunday that the infectious disease claimed the lives of eight people last (solar) year while 1,700 others  contracted the illness.

Patients in the provincial hospital said the main reason for them having contracted the disease was financial woes as they weren&t able to buy healthy...

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Da Afghanistan Bank, the central bank, said another cash aid package of $32 million arrived in Afghanistan on Sunday and was immediately transferred to a commercial bank.

&Da Afghanistan Bank welcomes the entry of currencies into the country through principled and legal means and while appreciating the humanitarian assistance of the...

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Chamber of Agriculture and Livestock officials said this week that due to a decrease in demand for saffron, cultivation of this spice has dropped off significantly this year.

However, Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL) officials said they are taking serious steps to improve the situation and increase cultivation of the saffron...

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