AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Abdul Rab Rasoul Sayyaf, leader of Dawat-e-Islami party and former Jihadi leader on Friday said criticized the Taliban and said the rebel group’s activities and their leadership and management system is against Islam and Shari’a. He said the insurgent group is a puppet to foreigners. He however …

AT-KABUL: Three Taliban armed attackers today afternoon attacked the house of Zabul Security Chief, in Qalat city, where after few minutes, one attacker was killed and two were detained by security forces, provincial official said. Zabul Governor’s spokesman, Gul Islam Syal, told Afghanistan Times three suspected Taliban armed men today afternoon …

Hamid Karzai condemns suicide attacks in Kabul, Logar AT-KABUL: At least 15 people were killed and about 140 injured on Friday in the wee hours suicide attack near a military base in the capital city, Kabul. A suicide bomber detonated an explosives filled truck in Shah Shaheed area of Kabul …

To the dismay of the nation, the second round of the presidential election last year gave birth to a dangerous political crisis which was averted by forming the National Unity Government. Though, the crisis was averted but it has its own implication as the two leaders are every now and …

A suicide bomb attack on a mosque in Saudi Arabia has left 15 people dead. A senior Saudi official told the BBC the bombing targeted a mosque used by security forces in Abha, close to the Yemeni border. An attack on a Shia mosque in May was claimed by the …

AT-KABUL: At least six people were killed and 15 others wounded when a suicide bomber detonated a truck filled with explosives in the capital of Logar province on Thursday early morning, said officials. Member of the provincial council, Abdul Wali Ahmadzai, said the suicide bomber detonated a mini-truck filled with …

Sadly enough, civilian casualties have reached their highest level since the United Nations began keeping detailed records six years ago, the international agency reported Wednesday. While the number of deaths during the first six months of the year fall slightly from the same time period of last year, the number …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A number of unknown armed men have torched at least 12 mosques in the past week in northern Baghlan province, local officials said on Wednesday. TOLOnews quoted Abdul Rasheed Bashir, the acting police chief of Baghlan, as saying that the Taliban militants had hand in the incidents. …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Resolute Support Mission and the US forces commander in Afghanistan Gen. John F. Campbell has said that there is no way that the Taliban can defeat the Afghan national security forces. He made the remarks at a session held at Brooking Institution at Washington DC on …

Fatiha for Mullah Omar: Kabul police confuse over arrests order AT-KABUL: The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Abdullah Abdullah has ordered the capital police to arrest those government officials who the mourned the death of Mullah Omar and offered Fatiha however the police seemed perplexed as the orders do not identify …