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(MENAFN) The Pentagon has announced that it is upgrading military awards for a group of US Marines who were deployed at Kabul’s international airport during the suicide bombing that struck amid the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, according...

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Dubai-based Rahber Global opens Kabul's first regulated visa facilitation centre, supporting diplomatic missions and international mobility in Afghanistan.

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(MENAFN) A 5.3-magnitude earthquake shook northeastern Afghanistan in the early hours of Saturday, sending strong tremors rippling as far as the capital, Kabul, as authorities have yet to account for casualties or structural damage.

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(MENAFN) The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has lifted its economic growth projection for Algeria to 3.8 percent in 2026, signaling stronger-than-expected performance despite mounting geopolitical pressures worldwide, a news agency reported....

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(MENAFN) The devastating human toll of catastrophic flooding sweeping across Afghanistan has climbed to at least 99 dead and 154 wounded over just nine days, as relentless rainfall continues to pummel the war-scarred and impoverished nation, a...

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(MENAFN) Flash floods unleashed by torrential rainfall have claimed at least 51 lives and left 89 people injured across Afghanistan over the past seven days, the National Disaster Management Authority confirmed Thursday — with forecasters warning...

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(MENAFN) Pakistan has inaugurated a new transit trade route through Iran, with analysts tying the development to a marked improvement in bilateral relations — accelerated by Islamabad's role in brokering regional diplomacy amid the ongoing Middle...

International Committee of the Red Cross

In Mazar-e-Sharif, 25-year-old Marzia Hussaini’s life changed in an instant. “We were travelling when our car hit a landmine,” she recalled. “When I woke up, both of my legs were gone.

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(MENAFN) More than 1,100 Afghans who claim to have served alongside American forces are languishing at Camp As Sayliyah in Qatar, caught in bureaucratic limbo after the Trump administration suspended relocation programs and allowed a key deadline...

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(MENAFN) More than 1,100 Afghans who assisted US forces are still stranded at Camp As Sayliyah in Qatar after relocation programs were paused, according to reports.

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(MENAFN) A key border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan reopened Thursday afternoon to allow Afghan migrants to return home, a spokesperson for the Afghan border police confirmed. "Currently, only migrants and their families are permitted...

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(MENAFN) The World Bank on Wednesday downgraded economic growth projections for multiple regions, warning that the ongoing Middle East conflict is already taking a heavy toll on nearby economies, with Gulf countries expected to face the sharpest...

UN Human Settlements Program

When Samira, a widowed mother of seven, crossed the Torkham border back into Afghanistan in December 2025, she was not returning home as much as stepping into the unknown.

EIN Presswire

DUBAI, DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, April 7, 2026 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- Rahber Global Launches Afghanistan’s First International-Standard Visa Facilitation Centre in Kabul Rahber Global, a Dubai-based mobility infrastructure and consular...

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(MENAFN) Three women have been killed and two children wounded after a residential structure collapsed in Khost city, the provincial capital of eastern Afghanistan's Khost province, on Monday afternoon, provincial government spokesman Mustaghfar...

EIN Presswire

KYIV, UKRAINE, April 7, 2026 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- In Central Asia, railway policy is increasingly moving beyond infrastructure alone – it is shifting into the realm of foreign policy and geoeconomics.

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(MENAFN) Australian authorities arrested a former soldier Tuesday at Sydney Airport in connection with alleged war crimes committed in Afghanistan.

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(MENAFN) Afghanistan has accused Pakistan of conducting an airstrike on a drug rehabilitation center in Kabul, which Taliban officials report killed at least 400 people.

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(MENAFN) Approximately 300 Afghan nationals have been freed from detention in Pakistan and have returned to Afghanistan over the past week, according to reports.

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(MENAFN) The Afghan government called on Monday for the United Nations Security Council to lift sanctions imposed on nearly two dozen senior officials, according to reports.