Local officials in Herat province say that the country's anti-narcotics research and study director has traveled to Herat province at the head of a delegation.

The Chinese government’s first shipment of earthquake relief supplies reached Afghanistan’s Herat.

The 8th specialized exhibition of Iranian businessmen, with the aim of expanding commercial and economic relations between Iran and Afghanistan, was opened yesterday Thursday (July 20) in Herat province with the presence of 20 different manufacturing and industrial companies from the Islamic Republic of Iran.

One of the American tourists, who is a lady, praised the security of this province during her trip to Herat and emphasized that she had traveled to Kabul, Ghazni and Bamyan provinces before and did not face any security problems.

The fifth joint economic meeting of Herat and Khorasan Razavi delegations was held today Tuesday in Herat province to improve the facilities in business affairs between the two countries.

More than 500 woman and men graduated from a six-month vocational training course in Herat.

Corruption in the customs office of Herat run to zero and the annual revenue of the office has increased to 20 billion afghan is annually. Herat customs officials said.

"Despite decades of war in Afghanistan, women remain stable," said the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), who led a delegation to Afghanistan, meeting with a group of businesswomen. She also noted that many children, especially girls, have been deprived of education.

The Taliban on Wednesday destroyed an electricity pylon that brings power to Herat province, the office of Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) in Herat said in a statement.

The Herat Public Health Department has confirmed that a doctor has died of the coronavirus in the province.

President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani in a virtual meeting with Covid-19 emergency committee of Herat province on Tuesday evening received their report on progresses in fighting the corona virus spread in that province, a statement said yesterday.

Afghan special police have discovered four tonnes of explosives in a truck in western Herat province, the Interior Ministry said on Monday.

The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) says six new coronavirus cases in western Herat and one in northern Sar-i-Pul provinces have been registered, taking Afghanistan’s tally to 117.

A 45-year-old woman died from coronavirus in western Herat province on Tuesday night, second death from the virus in Afghanistan.

President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani in a message has ordered the transfer of 400 million Afghanis emergency fund to Herat as part of measures to prevent the coronavirus outbreak in the province.

Dozens of Afghan patients held in isolation, including at least one confirmed to have the coronavirus, escaped from a quarantine facility in western Afghanistan on Monday after breaking windows and attacking hospital staff, officials said.

At least seven civilians were killed and 17 others were wounded in a "Taliban attack" in Kashk Rabat Sangi district in the western province of Herat, the provincial governor’s spokesman Jailani Farhad said.

Afghanistan’s health ministry said on Saturday that the number of confirmed case of coronavirus in the country had jumped to four.

Afghanistan's health minister warned on Thursday that the arrival of 50,000 people from neighboring Iran over the past one week has put the country at a very high risk from the deadly coronavirus.

"The first coronavirus case was found in western Herat province. The patient had no direct contact with the public recently," Afghan Public Health Minister Ferozuddin Feroz told reporters here.