AT News Report-KABUL: The number of human trafficking cases has been raised high in western Ghor province where 45 such cases are being documented this year, the provincial justice department chief said on Tuesday. Addressing a seminar on “Awareness about human trafficking” held in Firozkoh, Ghor’s capital, Abdul Jabbar Raji …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen on Monday said that the withdrawal of NATO forces from Afghanistan had taken place too quickly, a media report said. Addressing German troops in Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of northern Balkh province, she said the ISAF was too hasty in its …

AT News Report-KABUL: The Afghan security forces have destroyed a narcotic processing factory in Khogyani district of eastern Nangarhar province, official said on Tuesday. Lt. Col. Sherin Aqa Faqiri, the spokesman for 201 Selab Military Corps in the east, told Pajhwok Afghan News the drugs factory was destroyed during a …

AT News Report-KABUL: The Afghan government has warmly welcomed the US National Security Strategy (NSS) that offers lots of support to Afghanistan and India, while taking a tougher approach against Pakistan and names it as antithetical to US interests in the region. President Donald Trump’s new National Security Strategy (NSS) …

AT-KABUL: Three fighters loyal to the Islamic State (IS), also known as Daesh terrorist group entered a partially constructed building in western part of capital Kabul—Police District 5th, on Monday to attack facility of National Directorate of Security (NDS), but their evil designs were failed as the Afghan security forces …

AT-KABUL: Former intelligence chief, Amrullah Saleh reacted to Balkh governor’s resignation, asking the ex-governor’s fans not to “worry” and not to blame what he called “dust and trash”. The powerful governor who ruled the Northern Province for more than a decade, resigned and President Ashraf Ghani accepted his resignation on …

AT-KABUL: The government seems serious in protection of the water dams as water and energy minister said Monday that a committee was formed for this purpose. Ali Ahmad Osmani, told legislators that the committee was formed to prevent security threats against the dams. “Each dam has a certain enemy,” Osmani …

AT-KABUL: A large number of Taliban militants have been suffered massive casualties as a result of airstrikes carried out by the Afghan Air Force in northern Sar-e-Pul province, 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan National Army said on Monday. According to a statement issued by the Shaheen Corps, the airstrikes …

AT-KABUL: The President Ashraf Ghani on Monday warned the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces to stay away from politics and ethnic issues and be disciplined and patriotic to serve the country in a better way. President Ghani made the remarks during the introductory ceremony of three new deputies to …

AT-KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani has accepted the resignation of Atta Mohammad Noor as Balkh governor who remained in charge for over 13 years. Accepting Noor’s resignation, President Ghani appointed Mohammad Dawod as new governor of northern Balkh province, a statement from Presidential Palace said. Previously, Noor had tendered his registration …