AT News Report KABUL: A member of parliament claims that the Daesh terrorist network is accelerating recruitment in the eastern provinces of Nangarhar, Kunar, Laghman and Nooristan. Lawmaker, Hazrat Ali said on Friday that the group’s newly-recruited fighters are sent to Pakistan for training and are brought back to the …

AT News Report KABUL: Security forces in the northern province of Baghlan are using schools as strongholds, depriving students from attending classes, residents in the province say. People in Baghlan say that security forces use not only schools, but other educational centers are also turned to their fortresses. “Thousands of …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Afghanistan’s permanent representative to the UN has been elected to serve as vice president of the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP). Adela Raz was unanimously selected for the position during a meeting of the CEIRPP Thursday morning. …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Within the framework of implementation of a protocol for expansion of cross-border cooperation for disaster preparedness and response to emergency situations between Tajikistan and Afghanistan signed in February 2018, the first training for Tajik and Afghan female rescuers has begun in Dushanbe, according to the Committee …

AT News Report KABUL: US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad has met and discussed Afghan peace process with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg Khalilzad who recently concluded fifth round of talks with Taliban members in Qatar, has embarked on multi-nation trip as part of his efforts for facilitating …

AT News Report KABUL: The government of Afghanistan has inaugurated for the first time-ever a pine nut processing factory in Kabul on Thursday, where President Ashraf Ghani and over 200 Afghan politicians including Chinese Ambassador Liu Jinsong were present. During the inauguration, President Ghani vowed to transform Afghanistan, which boasts …

Reports from eastern Afghanistan reveal that over two thousands families from a par flung area of Kunar province have abandoned homes due to infighting between warring militant and armed groups in the area. The renewed round of armed clashes erupted between the two rival militant groups with commencing of spring …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Five Afghan workers have been killed and eleven others received injures after a fire broke out Friday morning at a three-story building in the Altındağ district of the Turkish capital Ankara.  President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said later on Friday the building in which the fire broke out was …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: As President Donald Trump tries to wind down America’s 18-year-old troop commitment in Afghanistan, a Pentagon watchdog is warning of the risks in leaving without significant financial pledges and protections for women under a government that would include the Taliban. From integrating 60,000 Taliban fighters into …

AT News Report KABUL: Afghanistan and Sri Lanka are to consider entering a prisoner exchange agreement to benefit both countries. This agreed after a meeting between Afghan Ambassador in Sri Lanka Ashraf Haidari, and the country’s Minister of Justice and Prison Reform Thalatha Athukorale. The Afghan Ambassador commended how the …