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On March 03, 41 locals, including one woman and three children, were wounded and two others were killed in a military operation launched in Jebrael, a densely populated neighborhood in the western Herat city.  Of the 41 wounded people, as Herat public health officials claim, nine are civilians. The local…

A shadow of new assumptions began to cast over the future of Afghan talks as the Democrat candidate Joe Biden won the 2020 US presidential elections. A beacon of hope began to shine in the Afghan presidential palace that was not at ease with Trump’s policy on the Afghan peace…

A number of local representatives claim that Moheb ul Rahman Ansar, the head of Ghazni Directorate of Education, continues to run the education directorate though he has been accused of high-profile corruption charges. They say Ansar uses his connection and political clout to abuse his authority with full impunity. In…

In parts of the northeastern Badakhshan province, as an eyewitness says, a militant Islamist group is growing in number and power and their members are neither local residents nor they speak local languages. The Chinese Uighur militants have been operating in the province for years now under the Taliban umbrella…

Findings by Kabul Now suggest that the quota system of higher education in state-run universities is marred by flaws. In the government-crafted quota system, 25 percent of the seats in 15 state-run universities are designated to a specific group of applicants. Many who are critics of this quota system call…

Two years ago, Alidad left his home province Ghor to settle in the capital Kabul. What forced him to leave Ghor was extreme poverty. As the only breadwinner of his family, Alidad leaves his rented house every morning in the hope to earn just a living. “I have been jobless…

As the Covid-19 pandemic began to spread across the country, Afghan health management, with the help of World Health Organization (WHO), took initiative to train and prepare health workers for challenges related to Covid-19 disease. As part of the initiative, the Afghan ministry of public health undertook training programs for…

It was the first birthday party of Naveed when a group of US soldiers attacked at his home in Paktia province in February 11, 2010.  Mohammad Dawood Sharabzoy, had invited a group of close friends and a circle of his former colleagues to celebrate the birth of his newly-born grandson,…

The Taliban appear to have focused in garnering a regional support to their cause. The group’s top delegation is on frequent visits of Afghanistan neighboring countries while the second round of the intra-Afghan negotiations is on hold in Doha, capital of Qatar. Overwhelmed by what negotiators of the Islamic Republic…

As many as eleveen people were killed and dozen others were wounded last Friday, January 29, after policemen, commanded by Maidan Wardak Police Chief Allahdad Fedaee, opened fire at people gathered in a peaceful protest held in Behsud district of Maidan Wardak province. A Government official in Kabul was quick…