Seven Afghan soldiers were killed in a Taliban attack on a base in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday, officials said. According to the Afghan defense ministry, “terrorists” attacked a joint military base in the Dawlat Abad district of Balkh province near the Uzbekistan border. The base was shared between the army ...
Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani appeared to have won a second term Sunday, narrowly scoring an outright win in preliminary polling results, but his main rival immediately vowed to challenge the tally. After months of political limbo and bitter allegations of fraud and corruption in the September 28 poll, Afghanistan’s Independent ...
