The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the political risk insurance arm of the World Bank Group, is bolstering foreign direct investment into Afghanistan by insuring a cashmere scouring and disinfection facility in Herat. The MIGA-supported...

Afghanistan has retained its position as the lead producer and cultivator of opium globally, with 74 per cent of the world’s illicit opium production in 2012, according to the 2013 World Drug Report, launched by the United Nations Office on...

A boat carrying at least 15 migrants reportedly sank off in Turkey and Greece waters. Afghan refugees association website reported that majority of the migrants were Afghans and were looking to travel to Greece from Turkey when the incident...

Georgia’s defense minister visited his troops in Afghanistan on Friday, a day after a suicide bomber driving a truck packed with explosives attacked an isolated base staffed by Georgian troops in Helmand Province on Thursday evening, killing...

All NATO member nations on Wednesday endorsed the new NATO Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan to train, advise and assist Afghan security forces. NATO secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the alliance is getting prepared for the...

The Amnesty International ahead of the NATO meeting in Brussels urged to International and Afghan military forces must preserve the modest human rights gains of the past 12 years and ensure that the rights of the Afghan people are protected...

According to reports, the government of Afghanistan has arrested a senior army colonel for illegally handing over prisoners to a man working with a U.S. special forces team who was accused of torture and killings. Tensions escalated between...

The Afghan labors expressed concerns regarding unemployment issues and complain that the Pakistani workers are attracted in various projects instead of them in Khost Province. The Afghan labors also urged the government to provide working opportunities...