AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Tribal elders in eastern Nangarhar province on Wednesday claimed that 130 residents were still in captivity of the Islamic State (IS). The Islamic State, also known as Daesh, has recently released a video footage showing 10 Afghan civilians killed brutally. The footage has shook-up the nation. According …

In national and international media, we see and read that the US war on drugs in Afghanistan is an $8 billion failure. This is strange to hear that this is only the US war on drugs and perhaps this is the reason the war is not making any progress. Until …

AT-KABUL: Operatives of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) arrested the Taliban’s shadow chief for Qarghaee district of eastern Laghman province. A press statement issued by the NDS said that their operatives arrested Maulvi Esmail Alias Abddullah, the Taliban’s shadow district chief for Qarghaee, along with one of his comrades, …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: National Directorate of Security (NDS) will launch a probe into a video shared in social media the other day showing the Islamic State (ARE) fighters burying bombs in a hillside in eastern Afghanistan, forcing the prisoners (locals) to sit on their knees and as they knelt down …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: At least 250 Taliban and IS insurgents, known as Daesh, have been killed in 17 US drone attacks in eastern Nangarhar province in the past month, local officials said on Tuesday. These operations were conducted in Hashkamina, Achin, Nazyan, Khoghyani and Sherzad districts of the province, and …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Expressing concerns over growing tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan following the recent spate of terrorist attacks in Kabul, the United States of America called on the two neighboring countries to work together to achieve the shared goals of eliminating terrorism. The US State Department spokesman, John Kirby …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Attorney General Office (AGO) on Tuesday said that cases of the six corrupt officials of Ministry of Urban and Development Affairs (MoUDA) were finalized and would be sent to the court soon. The AGO’s spokesperson Abdul Basir Azizi said that investigation in the mega corruption case in …

AT-KABUL: Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) on Tuesday said that 328 drug smugglers went on trial in the past four months. General Prosecution Director for CJTF, Yar Mohammad Hussainkhel, said that since March 21, 2015, the CJTF has registered 310 drug trafficking cases while arresting 328 smugglers. Speaking at a …

Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi-KABUL: The Office of Administrative Affairs and Council of Ministers Secretariat (OAACoMS) on Tuesday termed lack of coordination between the government organizations as a major reason responsible for snail-paced work on developmental projects. Chief Staff of the Council of Ministers Secretariat, Abdul Moein Moein, in a meeting with …

President Ashraf Ghani addressed the nation on Monday after a spate of deadliest attacks unleashed the floodgates of death and terror. The takeaways of his address were impressive particularly his statement that as the Peshawar school carnage turned out a game changer for Pakistan, the recent Kabul attacks that killed …