AT-KABUL: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson on Saturday accused President Barack Obama of founding the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). She claimed that Obama was responsible for the invasion of Afghanistan. Pierson’s comments came during an exchange with CNN’s Victor Blackwell, when she was …

The National Unity Government (NUG) has failed miserably to resolve the outstanding challenges. The nation has lost trust over the unity government. The government, caught in severe legal and political crisis, has no policy that could create stability, bring peace back to the country, and improve security. Absence of the policies …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Taliban insurgents on Saturday fired a rocket that landed on a house in Baghlan-e-Markazi district of the northern Baghlan province, leaving at least two civilians dead and three others wounded, a provincial official said. “A rocket fired by Taliban rebels struck a house in Shahi Khil …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Since the government of Pakistan has decided to repatriate Afghan refugees, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government the other day announced that they would convene a meeting of parliamentary leaders and Pakistani government officials to prepare a strategy to handle the issue of repatriation of Afghan refugees in …

AT-KABUL: After a week-long closure, the security forces on Friday night reopened Kandahar-Lashkargah highway, a provincial official said on Saturday. “The highway is reopened for military staffers only. But efforts are underway to establish check posts in the highway in order to reopen for public too,” provincial council member for …

AT-KABUL: Ministry of Agriculture Irrigation and Livestock said Saturday that the almond products would increase by 50 per cent in the northern Kunduz province this year. Agriculture experts after assessment of almond gardens said that almond harvest will be better this year in Kunduz, said MAIL in a statement. Kunduz …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: In a meeting with Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah on Saturday, former and current government officials urged the leaders to implement the agreement as foundation of the National Unity Government (NUG). President Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah signed a political deal in 2014 to establish the NUG. According to …

AT-KABUL: Ninety-two Taliban militants were killed across the country in the past 24 hours, the ministry of defense said Saturday in statement. The national army with the cooperation of national police and national directorate of security conducted military operations against insurgents in different areas of Paktika, Baghlan, Laghman and Faryab …

Pakistan’s government has recently put more pressure on the millions of Afghans living in the country for decades to go home apparently without any excuses. The Afghan governments and people have been facing the refugee problems as millions of our people have been living in the neighboring, regional and other …

AT-KABUL:  Around 173,000 people killed and more than 183,000 seriously wounded since the US invasion in 2001, revealed the research Costs of War. According to the research paper which focuses on the wars’ deaths and injuries, the cost in human lives and health has been enormous in the two countries. …