AT-KABUL: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Saturday approved a $31.37 million grant to prepare the Salang Corridor rehabilitation to improve the efficiency and safety of movement of goods and people in Afghanistan and across Central Asia, Afghan and ADB officials announced. “We are grateful for the continued support and …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The commander of the US-led international forces in Afghanistan, General John Nicholson has said that militants loyal to the Islamic State, which also known as Deash terrorist in Afghanistan are mainly ex-Pakistani members, and the group receive money, guidance, and communication support from IS leaders in Syria. …

AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Saturday said that an ammunition cache of terrorists was discovered and confiscated in western Herat province. In a statement, the NDS said that its operatives managed to discover and confiscate an ammunition cache in the Naw Abad area. “The cache included 51 …

AT-KABUL: An Egyptian cargo plane landed in Kabul, bringing humanitarian aids and medicines. The Egypt’s Red Crescent Society called the assistance as a sign of solidarity from the people of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the “brotherly people of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan”. It includes blankets, medicines, medical …

AT-KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai welcomed the peace agreement between the government and Hezb-e-Islami Afghanistan led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, asking the Taliban militants to follow Hekmatyar’s way in joining peace. He also said that any step towards the peace is good for Afghans. “The foreigners can either build Afghanistan or …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: After fierce fighting erupted on Thursday evening in the capital of central Uruzgan province, both security forces and the Taliban insurgents sustained casualties, provincial officials said on Friday. The three-hour battle took place after the militants stormed security checkpoints in the Charamgar area on the outskirts of …

AT-KABUL: At least sixty-nine insurgents were killed in different crackdowns carried by the Afghan security forces in the country within past 24 hours, a media statement said on Friday. In a press release issued here, the Ministry of Defense said that the operation was conducted in different areas of Nangarhar, …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A senior US military general, Joseph Dunford Jr., told the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington that Afghan security forces control 70 percent territory. Dunford, who is chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the committee that Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) suffered more casualties than …

The so-called National Unity Government is said to have lost legitimacy, creating problems that have encouraged some politicians and lawyers to give advice how to get out of the ‘current crises’. The government was shared between the two front-runners in the 2014 presidential runoff in which none of them could …

Terrorism is wrecking havoc in different parts of the world. No one is feeling safe in the modern world which has become global village. Not only Asia and Africa have braved terror attacks but Europe and the United States is also facing serious threats. Recent terror attacks in the United …