AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The United States Senators have approved the appointment of a new commander for the US and NATO’s Resolute Support Forces in Afghanistan. Lt. Gen. Austin Scott Miller, the 17th commander to oversee the American and NATO mission in Afghanistan, will succeed Gen. John Nicholson in that role. …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABULL US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said that her country is urging Pakistan more strongly not to give safe haven to terrorists. Haley, who is on a visit to New Delhi, told an Indian think tank that Pakistan has been cooperating with the United States, …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The meeting of the International Contact Group on Afghanistan in Baku shows Azerbaijan’s important role in the region, US Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Alice Wells said at a briefing in Baku on June 29. This aspect once again shows the …

Recently, the International Contact Group (ICG) on Afghanistan has declared its support for the Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace process. Efforts for reaching a sustainable peace has been done by the governments for more than a decade, when the Taliban once ruling the country and toppled by a US-led international invasion, …

AT-KABUL: U.S. Ambassador John R. Bass and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah acknowledged the achievements of more than 1,500 women activists and 190 civil society organizations working to empower women across Afghanistan, honoring two years of accomplishments by beneficiaries of the USAID-funded Promote Musharikat program.  Promote is a partnership between the …

AT-KABUL: At least 16 border police personnel embraced martyrdom after their check points attacked by Taliban insurgents in northern Takhar province, official said Wednesday. “Taliban coordinately attacked Afghan border police check points in Yatem Tepa area of Chah Ab district at around 2:30 local time, martyring 16 police, wounding one …

The trend of resignation has changed in Afghanistan. Previously officials defied an order from central government to step down as it was deepened on political schism between presidential palace and influential Afghans in government posts. However, now the waft is changed either by taking out of office forcedly, or resigned …

AT-KABUL: The parliament’s general session was disrupted after some verbal and then physical tensions happened among the lawmakers. The tensions took place after lawmaker Abdul Latif Pedram, criticized the government for holding election in Ghazni province based on zones. He said that some “fascist circles” inside the presidential palace had …

AT-KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai strongly condemned the US airstrikes on the Waigal district of Nooristan province, saying that bombarding of our villages and homes under any name is the clear violation of the Afghan national sovereignty and territorial integrity. An airstrike on a suspected Taliban house in the eastern …

AT-KABUL: The members of the peace march movement sat down in front of the US embassy in Kabul on Wednesday after a three-day protest at the gate of the UN mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). Besmellah Watandost, the movement’s spokesperson said they would ask the American people through their embassy to …