AT News Kabul: Pakistan’s Taliban accused the military Tuesday of breaking a fragile ceasefire, after the army said five soldiers and at least four militants died in a gun battle in the country’s northwest. Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) declared an indefinite ceasefire in June to facilitate peace talks being brokered by …
Read More »Karzai stresses expanding Iran, Afghanistan relations
AT News Kabul: Hamid Karzai, the former president of Afghanistan held a meeting with Bahador Aminian, Iran’s ambassador to Afghanistan in Kabul on Tuesday. In the meeting, the two sides exchanged views and discussed the latest developments in Afghanistan. Hamid Karzai, the former president of Afghanistan described Iran as a …
Read More »Etisalat donates cash aid for flood victims in Logar
AT News Kabul: Etisalat Afghanistan today announced it has distributed cash donations to victims of recent floods in Logar province. A wave of devastating flash floods hit and destroyed parts of Logar’s Khwakhay district in late August, killing at least 20 people. Etisalat sent a team to the affected areas …
Read More »Russian embassy suspends its consular services in Kabul
Demitry Zhirnov-Russian Ambassador in Afghanistan Kabul: The Russian Embassy in Kabul announced that its consular services have been temporarily suspended. The Russian embassy in Kabul announced it last night (Monday) by publishing a tweet. The embassy has not specified when it will resume its consular services. It should be mentioned …
Read More »Attacking diplomatic places is prohibited according to international law, says UN
AT News Kabul: The Secretary General of the United Nations has condemned the attack on the consular section of the Russian Embassy in Kabul. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Monday, in response to the suicide attack on the Russian Embassy in Kabul: “Attacks against civilians and diplomatic missions are …
Read More »Kandahar municipality says 50 unidentified bodies buried
AT News Kabul: Officials of Kandahar Municipality say that they buried the bodies of fifty people who had no heirs in the last one year, Tolo news reports. The officials added that they recently buried the bodies of 17 people who had been kept in the hospital’s cold storage for …
Read More »Karzai offer condolences to Kabulov on Kabul blast
AT News Kabul: The former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, had a telephone conversation with Mr. Zamir Kabulov, the special representative of the president of Russia for Afghanistan. In these talks, the former president strongly condemned the terrorist attack at the Russian Embassy in Kabul and expressed his grief over …
Read More »Liz Truss announced as new British prime minister
AT News Kabul: Britain’s former foreign secretary, Liz Truss, has won the ruling Conservative Party’s leadership contest, gaining the parliamentary majority to become the country’s next prime minister and replacing Boris Johnson, who was forced to resign after a series of scandals. Truss was named the new prime minister by …
Read More »Deadly suicide attack targets Russian embassy in Kabul
By: Demitry zhirnov-Russian Ambassador in Afghanistan Kabul: Two Russian staff members have been killed after a suicide bomber detonated explosives near the entrance of the Russian embassy in Kabul, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. The attack also left 11 others injured, the Afghan police said on Monday, adding the attacker …
Read More »Earthquake kills eight in eastern Afghanistan
AT News Kabul: An earthquake in northeastern Afghanistan killed at least eight people early on Monday, and the toll could rise, the state news agency quoted a regional official as saying. The quake of magnitude 5.3 struck near the eastern city of Jalalabad in the early hours, the United States …
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