AT News Kabul: The Taliban interim government in Afghanistan has signed an oil extraction agreement with China’s Xinjiang Central Asia Petroleum and Gas Co (CAPEIC), the country’s first major foreign deal since the political resettlement in August 2021. Under the contract, the CAPEIC will invest $150 million in one year …

AT News Kabul: According to the deputy governor of Badakhshan province, three workers trapped in the Yavan gold mine are still under the rubble, and efforts to rescue them continue. He said that another rescue team was sent to the area this morning. On Thursday afternoon 3 workers were trapped …

AT News Kabul: The UN’s lead humanitarian coordinator has said UN-supplied aid cannot continue if the interim government does not lift their ban on women working for humanitarian aid agencies in Afghanistan. Martin Griffiths, the head of the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, is due to visit …

AT Kabul: Factory owners in the Sheikh Mesri industrial town of Nangarhar province say that they have suffered heavy losses in the past month due to the lack of electricity. These industrialists add that the lack of electricity has caused serious economic problems and has made thousands of workers unemployed …

AT Kabul: A court in Pakistan’s Karachi city ordered the release of 405 Afghan nationals, the Afghanistan consulate in Karachi told TOLOnews on Wednesday. According to consulate Abdul Jabar Takhari, the order will become into effect in the coming days. “We have once released 428 people and they returned to …

AT Kabul: Zabihullah Mujahid, Taliban spokesman, wrote on Twitter that eight ISIS members were killed and seven other were arrested in an operation late today on 8th district of Kabul. He said that there was an operation on ISIS hideouts in Qalache and Shuhada-e-Saleheen area in Kabul. He also added …

AT Kabul: Iran plans to accept more female students from Afghanistan following the Taliban’s refusal to allow women and girls to study in the country. The official Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported on Tuesday that Iran has increased the university’s budget fivefold for scholarships for Afghan students. There are …

AT Kabul: Russia says Ukrainian forces have killed 89 Russian troops in a missile strike in the Donetsk region, blaming the deadly attack on the illegal use of mobile phones by its soldiers. Lieutenant General Sergey Sevryukov made the remarks in a video statement released by Russia’s Defense Ministry on …

AT News Kabul: Following the increased tensions between Pakistan’s military forces and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the threat of the Pakistani Interior Minister to take action against the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan in Afghanistan, Ned Price, the spokesperson of the US State Department, supported Islamabad’s plan. He said on Tuesday: “We’re …

AT News Kabul: Former Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai on Tuesday called upon Islamabad to stop issuing threats and carry out “deep review” of its decades long policies related to Afghanistan, adding that prevailing “insecurity” in Pakistan is the result of policies of its own government. His statement came in response …