BAMYAN, Afghanistan -- At least four commuters were killed and two others injured in a road accident in Afghanistan's central Bamyan province on Thursday, a statement of the provincial police said. Â Â Â The deadly accident occurred early Thursday morning in the Band-e-Amir district of the...
The government is carefully studying the request of the United States to the Philippines to temporarily house around 50,000 Afghan refugees as the legality of the issue must first be established, Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Gilberto “Gibo” Teodoro Jr. said. *Department of...
JALALABAD, Afghanistan, -- Police in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province have arrested 93 people on charge of involvement in criminal activities over the past month, deputy head of the provincial police department Mawlawi Tahir Mabariz said Monday. Addressing a press conference, the official...
Former president Rodrigo Duterte offered an explanation into Vice President Sara Duterte's decision to oppose offering temporary shelter to some 50,000 refugees from Taliban-led Afghanistan. In the latest episode of SMNI News Channel’s “Gikan sa Masa, Para sa Masa,” the former chief executive...
Several government agencies on Friday, June 16 raised concerns that members of the Taliban and other “splinter groups” would revive their propaganda once the Philippines gives in to the United States’ request for the government to temporarily house Afghan nationals in the country. ...
Senator Francis Tolentino on Friday, June 16, favors the Philippine government’s initiative to extend temporary refuge to Afghans who have been tragically affected by war. With a resolute commitment to human rights and international solidarity, Tolentino, vice-chairman of the Senate committee on...
Senator Imee Marcos on June 8, Thursday, filed a resolution asking the Senate to inquire into the United States’ request for the Philippine government to temporarily house some Afghanistan nationals, with special immigrant visa applications, in the country. Marcos, in filing Senate Resolution...
HERAT, Afghanistan - Six people have been killed and dozens of homes washed away in flooding in central Afghanistan, local authorities said Wednesday. Abdul Wahid Hamas, a spokesman for the Taliban governor in central Ghor province, said three women and a child were killed when their house in the...
JURM, Afghanistan - At least 13 people were killed in Afghanistan and Pakistan by a strong earthquake felt across thousands of kilometres, but the region appeared Wednesday to have dodged the mass casualties usually associated with a tremor of such scale. A man removes debris from a damaged a house...
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's Taliban authorities have "beaten and detained" an academic who voiced outrage on live television against their ban on women's university education, his aide said Friday. A spokesman for UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called for the immediate release of...
KABUL, Afghanistan -- At least 166 people have died in a wave of bitterly cold weather sweeping Afghanistan, an official said Saturday, as extreme conditions heaped misery on the poverty-stricken nation. Afghanistan has been frozen by temperatures as low as -33 degrees Celsius (-27 degrees...
KABUL, Afghanistan - At least 70 people have died in a wave of freezing temperatures sweeping Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday, as extreme weather compounds a humanitarian crisis in the poverty-stricken nation. Since January 10, the mercury has plunged in Kabul and several other provinces,...
