Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The diesel fuel needed to produce oxygen for coronavirus patients has run out. So have supplies of dozens of essential drugs. The staff, unpaid for months, still shows up for work, but they are struggling to make ends meet at home.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Afghan survivors of an errant U.S. drone strike that killed 10 members of their family in August said Tuesday they are frustrated and saddened that U.S. troops involved in the attack will not face disciplinary action.

A hellfire missile had slammed into a car belonging to Zemerai Ahmadi, killing him and nine relatives, including seven children, in the chaotic final days of the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.

KABUL, Dec 13 (NNN-ANA) – Chinese and Afghan officials inaugurated the construction of a mosque and two wells, at the Ministry of Justice, yesterday.

Chinese Ambassador to Afghanistan, Wang Yu said, China and Afghanistan are very close neighbours, connected by mountains and rivers, and the two peoples enjoy long-lasting friendly exchanges.

KABUL, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- A blast rocked Dasht-i-Barchi area in the western part of Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, on Friday, with casualties feared, locals said.

The blast, according to eyewitnesses, took place at 3:25 p.m. local time and targeted a mini-bus in Dasht-i-Barchi, an suburban area of Police District 13.

Spokesman for the Interior Ministry Qari Sayed Khosti has confirmed the incident, saying he would share the details with the media after an investigation. 

PUL-E-ALAM, Afghanistan, Dec 9 (NNN-ANA) – Construction of a water supplying network has been completed and inaugurated in Pul-e-Alam city, the capital of Afghanistan’s eastern Logar province, the state-run news agency, Bakhtar reported.

Completed at a cost of five million afghani (48,000 U.S. dollars) with the support of the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the project would provide drinking water to 350 families, the news agency quoted Nematullah Ahmadi, the provincial head for supplying water, as saying.

KABUL, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- A batch of COVID-19 vaccines donated by the Chinese government arrived in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, on Wednesday.

A handover ceremony was held at Kabul international airport, attended by Chinese Ambassador to Afghanistan Wang Yu and deputy minister of Afghanistan's Public Health Ministry Abdul Bari Omar.

Since the political situation of Afghanistan has changed, China has announced to donate 3 million doses of vaccines and other medical supplies to Afghanistan, Wang said while addressing the ceremony.

KABUL, Dec 7 (NNN-ANA) – The Taliban caretaker government in Afghanistan, has established a military unit, to protect the forests and prevent deforestation in the mountainous country, a spokesman of the government said, today.

Approved by the cabinet of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the 450-member military unit, would be deployed in both crop-yielding, such as pistachio and regular forests countrywide, deputy spokesman of the caretaker government, Inamullah Samangani, wrote on Twitter.

HERAT, Afghanistan (AP) — Over the course of an hour on a recent night, the bus waiting in the Herat station filled with passengers. Mostly young men, they had no luggage, just the clothes on their backs, maybe a bag with some bread and water for the long road ahead of them.

That road is leading them to Iran.

TALUQAN, Afghanistan, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- Police have arrested a man on a charge of killing a child in Afghanistan's northern Takhar province, local official Mawlawi Ansarullah Ansari said Monday.

A child was killed in Rustaq district of Takhar province four days ago and police arrested the alleged murderer on Sunday, the official added.

The motive behind the brutal killing could be family enmity, the official said, adding an investigation into the case has been initiated.

MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- Some 500 tons of food and clothing donated by China have arrived in Afghanistan's border city of Hairatan, northern Balkh province, a local official has said.

A total of 27 containers packed with 500 tons of food and clothing entered Afghanistan via the Hairatan port on Thursday and Friday. The supplies will be delivered to different provinces and will be distributed among the needy people, Abdul Matin Sayyed from the provincial custom office told Xinhua.