As new threats have started emerging in the Arab peninsula, President Ashraf Ghani called on the international community at the Munich Security Conference that Afghanistan shouldn’t be kept on backburner. His call is timely and needs attention. Though too many other global challenges have emerged, but Afghanistan shouldn’t be ignored …

AT-KABUL: Unknown gunmen opened fire on worshipers in a mosque in eastern Nangarhar province killing two people wounded another, said an official source on Monday. Spokesman for the provincial governor office, Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, said that unidentified gunmen entered a mosque in Kabul Camp area of Rodat district in the …

A drone strike in Afghanistan has killed a key militant commander who recently swore allegiance to Islamic State (IS), officials say. AT News Report KABUL: A commander of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Afghanistan, Abdul Rauf Khadim, was killed in a drone strike in southern Helmand …

KABUL: The Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI) and the Central Statistics Organization (CSO) have planned to conduct a nationwide survey to collect precise information about industries and factories as well as their products. The results of the survey would enable the government to adopt an efficient policy for …

The Deputy Foreign Minister also held a press conference where he said China will try all means to make Afghan-led peace process successful AT News Report KABUL: The Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister called on President Ashraf Ghani in the presidential palace on Monday, wherein they exchanged views on different issues …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A number of social media users have opposed sending a group of Afghan army cadets for training to a military training academy in Pakistan, despite being a sign of increased cooperation between the two neighbors. The six-member group has been sent to a military compound in Abbottabad …

AT-KABUL: Ex-President Hamid Karzai called on Afghan media to promote national unity. Staffers of Pajhwok Afghan News in a meeting with Hamid Karzai on Sunday applauded his support to freedom of speech over the past 13 years. Danish Karokhel, head of the news agency praised Hamid Karzai’s all-out support to …

AT-KABUL: A teacher and six school students kidnapped by the Taliban militants last week were set free in western Farah province, said an official source on Sunday. Pashtoonkot district chief said that the militants kidnapped the seven people including one teacher and six school students last week, when Afghan forces …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The road to Narai district is eastern Kunar province is blocked over the past four days. Residents of the district said militants are targeting civilians on the road. According to reports, the Taliban militants have planted bombs on this road. Officials in the district said they will …

By Mansoor Faizy Taliban blow up school, clinic in Kunar There is hardly a place they didn’t attack. To start from mosques to hospitals, from marriage halls to graveyards, from schools and clinics to markets, from roads to houses, from military barracks to foreign forces installations, there is hardly any …