AT News KABUL: Following week-long fighting between Afghan security forces, pro-government forces and the Taliban in western Herat province, scholars and clerics are calling for ceasefire in the province. Head of western zone Ulema Council, Mawlawi Khodadad Saleh, in presence of tens of scholars asked the government and the Taliban …

AT News KABUL: The government of Afghanistan wants the international community to look at and pressure the main centers of Taliban outside Afghan borders inside the Pakistani soil. Gholam Mohammad Ishaaqzai, Afghanistan’s newly-appointed ambassador to the United Nations, said Sunday that the UN and the Security Council need to declare …

AT News KABUL: Taliban militants have killed 27 civilians and injured 10 in Malestan district of Ghazni province since they captured the district last month, the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission confirmed. According to the commission, these people were killed and injured in different villages of Malestan, while the insurgents …

AT News KABUL: Pashton Politician and Provincial President of Awami National Party of Pashtonkhwa, Aimal Wali Khan called on the Pakistani government to stop interference in Afghanistan. He said that Afghanistan is an independent country. According to him, thousands of terrorists are crossing from Pakistan to Afghanistan, where they triggered …

Afghanistan is in its dangerous turning point. Any heart-wrenching incident can happen and unfortunately it’s happening right now as the flame of deadly war is yet to be extinguished as the proxy and destructive forces continue to kill the innocent Afghans and destroy the infrastructures. The increasingly brutal conflict across …

AT News KABUL: President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani met on Saturday the former Vice President Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum and discussed the worsening security situation in the country. Following escalation of conflict and violence in different parts of the country particularly in northern provinces recently, Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum returned from …

AT News KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai strongly condemned the assassination of Dawa Khan Menapal, head of the government media and information center. “I was sadly aware that head of the government media and Information center, Dawa Khan Menapal was martyred as a result of a terrorist attack- which has …

AT News KABUL: Findings from the Ministry of Health show that about 36.6% of children in Afghanistan suffer from chronic malnutrition. The ministry says 5 percent of children are severely malnourished and calls the death toll from the problem worrying. Meska is the mother of a six-month-old child, and says …

AT News KABUL: The defense ministry says that army forces launched a counter attack to drive Taliban back from Zaranj city, provincial capital for Nimroz, killing a great number of Taliban fighters and their al-Qaeda allies. Taliban captured Zaranj city on Friday, the first provincial capital completely falling to the …

AT News KABUL: At least 385 Taliban terrorists were killed and 210 others wounded during crackdowns carried out by the Afghan security forces in different provinces in the past 24 hours, officials said on Saturday. Afghan security forces succeeded to kill 385 Taliban militants during clashes and counters attacks in …