AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Taliban militants are collecting usher and zakat in northern Baghlan province in order to finance their war against the Afghan government. Local people said that Dand-e-Ghori, Baghlan Markazi and Borka districts of the province are currently under the Taliban’s control, where they force people into paying …

AT-KABUL: Afghanistan’s premier spy agency, the National Directorate of Security (NDS), has arrested five dreaded Taliban fighters in Nimroz province. According to a press statement issued here on Saturday, the intelligence agency’s operatives busted the five-member group which was involved in multiple terror and subversive activities. They confessed killing a …

AT-KABUL: The Afghan-Turk High School in Kabul has started distribution of 7,000 food packages to needy families in different parts of the country, as part of its Ramadan-long humanitarian operation. The Afghan-Turk High School (ATHS) on Saturday started the implementation of the food aid program for Ramadan while distributing 3,000 …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL:  Afghan security forces have killed nine Taliban militants and injured three others during a gunfight in eastern Nangarhar province of the country. The clash erupted when a group of the Taliban insurgents tried to hijack a vehicle the other day in Laal Pur district of Nangarhar. The …

AT-KABUL: Two people including a policeman were killed when an explosive device went off in Laghman province. According to local sources, the bomb was planted in Islamabad Bazaar area of Alishang district, and targeted a police vehicle. The incident took place the other day. Spokesman to the provincial governor, Sarhadi …

AT-KABUL: At least 17 Afghan security personnel and 45 Taliban fighters have been killed in militants’ attack on Want Waigal district of eastern Nuristan province of the country, governor’s spokesman said on Saturday. Muhammad Musa Shami told Afghanistan Times that the two days long clashes in Want Waigal district left …

Afghanistan’s ambassador to the United Nations said his country has been under an assault from an unprecedented convergence of the Taliban insurgents, over 7,000 foreign fighters, and other violent groups including the Islamic State (IS). The Islamic State, for many in Afghanistan, is nothing new rather the rebrand of some …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Security officials will be summoned by Wolesi Jirga today (on Saturday) to brief lawmakers on mounting insecurity across the country. Assistant secretary of the Wolesi Jirga, Irfanullah Irfan, told Azadi Radio that the Minister of Interior, Chief of Army Staff and Chairman of the National Directorate of …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Ministry of Interior (MoI) urged Russia to cooperate with Afghanistan in fight against the Islamic State (IS) fighters. Seddiq Seddiqi, spokesman for the MoI, said that Russia’s cooperation in war against IS, also known as Daesh, will prove effective. He added that presence of the militant …

“Russia is Afghanistan’s neighbor. What happens in Afghanistan has a direct influence on Russia,” says the former president KABUL: Ex-President Hamid Karzai has urged Russia for counter-terrorism role in the region to deal with the emerging and existing security threats. Speaking the other day in Moscow, the capital city of …