AT-KABUL: Anti-Taliban operation has been continuing infinitely with leaving mass-scale casualties on the part of the extremist group in southern Kandahar province, security officials said Monday.   At least 97 Taliban have been killed in the ongoing operations conducted in Shah Wali Kot district by the Afghan forces along with Resolute …

KABUL: At least six people – including two children – were killed following an explosion at a local market in Paktika which was mistakenly triggered, according to officials. The blast happened when an unexplodedordnance went off among a crowd of civilians at a local market in Janikhel district of Paktika …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Afghanistan’s Ambassador to Tehran, Nasir Ahmad Nour said that Iran’s Southeastern port of Chabahar is of vital importance to Afghanistan, saying the Afghan government and private sector are eager to see the port in full swing. Nasir Ahmad Nour, in an interview with an Iranian news outlet, …

KABUL: Authorities in Kabul are castigating U.S. President Donald Trump’s remarks about the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the country’s war as they on Thursday demanded Washington to provide explanation. President Donald Trump at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday said that Russia and Pakistan should be fighting the war in …

KABUL: Taliban militants have expelled tens of families of government servants and those fighting with the insurgents in the framework of the government-funded public uprising forces from their houses and villages in the northern province of Faryab, provincial officials said Friday. The militants have also confirmed they had forced 30 …

KABUL: Three people were convicted Thursday of the murder of BBC journalist Ahmad Shah, with one of them sentenced to death. Afghanistan’s primary anti-terrorism court has convicted three men in the murder case of a BBC reporter, spokesman of the Attorney General Office (AGO) said on Thursday. Ahmad Shah was …

Bakhtan, a resident of Nangarhar province who has lived in an area controlled by Daesh terrorist group for two years, says that aerial attacks against the group have killed a large number of its fighters and they have lost a lot of ground. A former fighter of Daesh group, Bakhtan …

KABUL: Three people have died and 44 others injured after a fire tore through a gas station in Kabul, health officials said on Friday. The blaze broke out on Thursday midnight in a pump station along Abdulhaq square and spread to nearby buildings. The Health Ministry confirmed the fire killed …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Amid reports on a possible withdrawal of a “significant” number of US forces from Afghanistan, the US Vice President Mike Pence said Trump “is in the process of evaluating” whether to remove troops from Afghanistan. He made the remarks in an exclusive interview with Fox News. The …

AT-KABUL: Afghanistan briefed India on Friday on the security situation in the war-ravaged nation and efforts of the National Unity Government aimed at peace and reconciliation. Visiting Afghan National Security Adviser (NSA) Hamdullah Mohib held wide-ranging talks with India’s NSA Ajit Doval during which they exchanged views on the developments …