At least five members of a family have been killed and two others injured after a hill collapsed onto a house in western Badghis province. In a statement, the governor’s office said the incident occurred on Friday night in the Baghaki area of Qala-i-Naw city. It added that a soil mound collapsed onto two rooms More
German aviation company Lufthansa Group says it will cut 20,000 short-haul flights until October as the Iran war drives up oil prices and raises concerns that some countries may face jet fuel shortages, according to a media report. Lufthansa said on Thursday that it would cancel less profitable routes and focus on flights to and More
Three people have lost their lives and dozens of residential houses have been destroyed. Hedayatullah Hamdard, head of the Baghlan Department of Natural Disaster Management, said that on Thursday night, heavy rainfall triggered flash floods in Khinjan district, killing three people and destroying 15 residential houses. He added that, according to preliminary information, a further More
US President Donald Trump said a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon has been extended by three weeks following fresh talks between the two countries’ envoys in Washington. Announcing the extension on Truth Social, Trump said the meeting “went very well,” adding that the United States would work with Lebanon “to help it protect itself from More
Official sources say that Wahidullah Asghari, the former head of Afghanistan’s National Snooker Federation, was killed in Kabul city after being abducted near his home. Shakib Sakhi, secretary-general of the National Snooker Federation, confirmed to the media that Wahidullah Asghari was abducted by unknown individuals on Tuesday this week near his residence in Qala-i-Fathullah, Kabul More
US President Donald Trump says disagreements have emerged in Iran between “hardliners” and “moderates,” but Iranian officials have rejected the claim, insisting that everyone acts in unity under the leadership of the Supreme Leader. Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform that Iranian officials are “facing serious problems in determining their leader.” He also claimed More
At least five people, including a journalist, were killed in Israeli attacks in Lebanon, Al Jazeera reported on Thursday. An initial Israeli strike targeted a car in at-Tiri, a village in southern Lebanon, killing two people inside, Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported on Wednesday. The Israeli military said it struck two vehicles in southern More
At least five people, including one woman, have died and hundreds of homes have been destroyed after flash floods struck the western provinces of Badghis and Ghor, local officials said on Thursday. Baridad Saber, head of the Disaster Preparedness Department in Badghis, told Pajhwok that five people were killed in the province, including one woman. More
Kenya’s High Court has upheld a decision to extradite former Wolesi Jirga member Abdul Zahir Qadir to the United States, the BBC reported on Thursday. Qadir has been charged by US authorities in New York with drug trafficking and illegal possession of weapons. However, his lawyer and family have described the charges as politically motivated. More
US Navy Secretary John Phelan has stepped down from his position in the Trump administration, according to the Pentagon. His resignation is effective immediately, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell announced in a social media post on Wednesday. Navy Undersecretary Hung Cao will serve as acting secretary, Parnell added. Phelan is the latest senior military official to More
