Ashraf Ghani

The government of Afghanistan signed a $11.4 million contract with a Turkish company on Jan. 7 to build a prefabricated housing factory in the country, according to an Afghan media outlet.  
    

A massive suicide blast targeting Shiites killed at least 27 people and wounded 35 as worshippers gathered at a Kabul mosque Nov. 21, officials said, the latest sectarian attack to rock the Afghan capital.

The EU has reached a deal with Afghanistan to sent back migrants whose protection applications were refused, DW reports.

As a summit in Brussels bringing together officials from 70 countries kicks off on Tuesday, the EU is expected to give the green light to EUR 1 B in yearly aid to Afghanistan by 2020.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has reiterated his idea that the deployment of Bulgarian soldiers in Afghanistan might be cancelled.

Borisov, who has already mentioned the option, has again cited the contradiction between the international coalition's commitment to enforcing security and democracy in Afghanistan and the inflow of migrants from the country into Europe.

India and Afghanistan have decided to sign an accord to establish an air corridor in the region.

Afghanistan on Sept. 22 signed a peace agreement with notorious warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, paving the way for him to make a political comeback despite a history of war crimes and after years in hiding.

India offered Afghanistan a fresh economic assistance of USD 1 billion after Prime Minister Narendra Modi held talks with visiting Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in New Delhi on Wednesday.

Prime Minister David Cameron has been overheard describing Nigeria and Afghanistan as “fantastically corrupt” in a conversation with the Queen.

In comments that were caught by a microphone during a reception at Buckingham Palace to celebrate the Queen’s 90th birthday, he said Nigeria and Afghanistan were two of the most corrupt countries in the world, as the Guardian reports.

The death toll from a Taliban suicide attack in Kabul has more than doubled to 64, officials said April 20, making it the deadliest militant assault in the Afghan capital for years.

The brazen attack on April 19 on a security services office in the heart of Kabul is seen as the opening salvo in this year's Taliban spring offensive, launched last week.

A major Taliban suicide bomb and gun attack on a government security office in central Kabul during rush hour on April 19 killed at least 28 people and wounded more than 320, a week after the militant group announced a spring offensive.