AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A key commander of the al Qaeda terrorist network was killed in an airstrike conducted by US forces in Afghanistan. Pentagon issued a statement on Friday confirming that the senior al Qaeda leader, Abu Khalil al-Sudani, was killed in southeastern Paktika province on 11th July. The statement …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The second round of peace talks between representatives of the Afghan government and the Taliban militants, aimed at ending the 14-year war, will take place on July 30 in China, official said Friday. The two sides are still working out the details such as the list of …

By Akhtar M.Nikzad-KABUL: The Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MoCIT) illegally shut down two local private television networks in Balkh province, said Nai-Supporting Open Media in Afghanistan. Abdul Mujib Khelwatgar, head of Nai, in a press conference on Thursday accused the MoCIT of violating media law and said that …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: As Kabul succeeded to hold the first round of peace talks with the Taliban representatives in Murree, Pakistan, a local association the other day prodded the government to engage all Afghans from different levels in the ongoing peace process aimed at removing hurdles and challenges in the …

By Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi-KABUL: Afghan analysts are not optimistic about result of the ongoing peace talks between the Taliban militants and government. The political and security affairs analysts are of the view that Pakistan is playing a double game with Kabul—supporting the Taliban under the pretext of facilitating the Afghan …

News are in circulation that second round of the peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban insurgents likely to take place on July 30 in China. Senior member of the High Peace Council (HPC), Ismail Qasimyar, confirmed it and said that the second round would be held in …

AT-KABUL: The deputy minister of foreign affairs, Hekmat Khalil Karzai, on Thursday summoned the Pakistani ambassador to Kabul over cross-Durand Line shelling. According to a media statement of the foreign ministry issued here, the deputy minister expressed his concern to Pakistan’s ambassador to Kabul Syed Ibrar Hussain in connection to …

KABUL: In the third and most important qualifying play-off match of the ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier in Dublin on Thursday, Afghanistan defeated Papua New Guinea by six wickets. Having lost the first play-off match against Hong Kong and unceremoniously knocked out of the tournament, it was a must-win game for …

Father, 52, shot two times in the chest while trying to help his son who Israeli forces were attempting to arrest. Israeli forces have broken into a house and killed a 52-year-old Palestinian man in a village north of Hebron in the occupied West Bank. Falah Abu Maria was shot …

AT-KABUL: The United States (US) and Afghan Special Forces have conducted a joint search operation in eastern Nangarhar province in which at least 20 suspected militants have been detained, Afghan army said on Thursday. Special US forces and Afghan National Army (ANA) commandos, descended from helicopters carried out search and …