Afghanistan is among a few countries where violence against journalists and other media adherents has been registered by the national and international media watchdogs having stirred a national indignation. In fact, many types of violence are threatening the people in the country from violence against women and children to other …

AT News Report-KABUL: Taliban have solicited financial support from Russia during a series of talks Kremlin had with the militant group. Russia’s envoy for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov has said Russia was planning to negotiate with the militant Taliban and manipulate them into joining peace talks. Kabulov told journalists in Moscow …

AT News Report-KABUL: Afghanistan’s interior ministry has declared that police forces will discontinue any field missions for the Afghan police in the battlegrounds and rather guard and protect civilian within the main cities. A spokesperson to the interior ministry has said a lot of police forces are engaged in fighting …

AT-KABUL: In the wake of massive-scale security operations across the country in recent day, at least 29 militants belonging to various insurgent outfits have been killed and as many as 23 more terrorists sustained serious injuries. In a press release issued, the defense ministry said the Afghan army in collaboration …

AT-KABUL: Decrying the recent countrywide surge in insecurity, Afghanistan’s Parliament summoned on Wednesday high-ranking security brass for an interpellation motion. Ministers of Defense and Interior as well as the Intelligence Directorate Chief were summoned to the parliament to respond to the questions arisen by lawmakers concerning a countrywide deterioration of …

AT-KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani met foreign minister of Russia Sergei Lavrov, Tuesday afternoon on the sidelines of the Tashkent Conference, where both sides shed lights over important issues. The two sides talked over the successful convening of the Kabul Process, the peace process and the Tashkent Conference on Afghanistan, the …

AT-KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani held meeting with the British special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan Gareth Bayley on Tuesday morning on the sidelines of the Tashkent Conference on Afghanistan, in which key issues were disused, a statement from president office said. Both sides talked about the British assistance to Afghanistan, …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Prosperity is impossible without peace in the region and the greatest contemporary threat to peace is terrorism, a top Indian diplomat said on Tuesday. Addressing the Tashkent Conference, MJ Akbar said: “Our Afghan brothers and sisters are being denied both rights and opportunity by fear and violence. …

AT-KABUL: Up to 7,500 people infected by AIDS syndrome have been registered in Afghanistan, the public health ministry said. “Migrations to abroad and the low level of education are the major reasons of the HIV virus spread,” said Ferozuddin Feroz, public health minister. “Thus, we need to use elite people …

It seems there is no end to Pakistan’s brazen and unprovoked cross-line attacks into Afghanistan, as Pakistani gunship choppers keep violating Afghanistan’s sovereignty and target civilian homes in eastern Afghanistan. Pakistani paramilitary forces have been firing thousands of missiles into eastern provinces over the past years, claiming lives of tens …