The Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, has extended his heartfelt condolences to the victims of the earthquake in Herat and Badghis provinces.

Officials said that, six shamans have been arrested by authorities in Badghis province.

According to a statement issued by the provincial police office, an automobile accident in Badghis claimed the lives of at least five passengers and injured nine others.

200 family benefited from the electricity in Badghis with the expending of Qala-e-naw electricity.

Cash aid is distributed to needy families in Badghis. Local officials of this province said.

Mawlavi Abdul Salam Hanafi, met with local officials of Badghis province.

A women’s trade center restored by Qala Naw municipality with the financial cooperation of the United Nations office in Afghanistan.

Officials of Mines and Petroleum of that province said that, a new precious stone mine with compounds (gold, silver, copper and lead) in the Mohammed Khan area of Ab kamari district of Badghis.

Mining operations involving coal, lead and iron ore woud soon start in the province. The Ghor governor’s press office said in a statement.

Health officials have urged the people to voluntarily get vaccinated against coronavirus in Badghis province.

29 militants of the radical Taliban group were killed or injured in the northwestern province of Badghis, the press service of the military department of Afghanistan said,

The Taliban issued no statements on these attacks and no group immediately claimed responsibility, but authorities are blaming the Taliban.

A total of 275,000 people have been displaced by drought in western Afghanistan — 52,000 more than the number uprooted by conflict this year — with over two million threatened by the effects of water shortages, the United Nations said.

Police chief of Muqur district in Afghanistan's northwestern province of Badghis has been killed in a roadside bomb blast, officials said Wednesday.