AT News KABUL: Leader of the Pashtonkhwa Mili Awami Party, Muhammad Usman Khan Kakar died at hospital on Monday in Karachi state of Pakistan. A member of the Pashtonkhwa Mili Awami, Yousuf Kakar announced that Usman Kakar was “no longer with us.” According to him, Usman Kakar was attacked in …
Read More »5 killed in Paktia roadside bomb
AT News KABUL: A roadside bombing targeted a vehicle in Ahmadabad district of southeastern Paktia province, killing five civilians and wounding four others. Provincial Police Spokesman, Hayatullah Nizami said that incident occurred on Monday morning when a Corolla car hit a roadside bomb in Ahmadabad. According to him, the victims …
Read More »People in northern provinces take arms to prevent Taliban onrush
AT News KABUL: In the wake of intensifying battles in the northern provinces in which Taliban managed to take control of several districts, tens of youth in the provinces of Takhar, Balkh, Badghis and Baghlan have been armed against the rush of the insurgents. “All jihadi commanders have joined the …
Read More »Afghan forces kill more than 172 Taliban militants
AT News KABUL: At least 172 Taliban insurgents were killed and 53 others wounded during a series of military crackdowns conducted by the Afghan security forces in different provinces across the country in the past 24 hours, the defense ministry said Monday. Backed by the Afghan Air Forces, the Afghan …
Read More »As Taliban surge, Biden set to meet Afghan leaders
An unbridled crescendo of territorial losses to the Taliban and a fractured peace is a brutal reality check of how frail our country is after decades of American military engagement – all hinting at peril of a full-blown civil war looming over Afghanistan. It is a folly to ignore the …
Read More »Five districts fall to Taliban in north
AT News KABUL: Taliban militants have captured five districts in the northern provinces of Baghlan and Balkh, government officials confirm. The insurgents claimed on Monday to have captured districts of Doshi and Jelga in Baghlan. They also claimed that their fighters took control of the districts of Sholgara, Dawlat Abad …
Read More »Turkey reiterates readiness for Kabul airport security
AT News KABUL: Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, says his country was ready to take responsibility for the Kabul international airport’s security, a mission demanded by the United States after their military withdrawal. Cavusoglu has stated this in a meeting with Afghan foreign minister Hanif Atmar, in which the Turkish …
Read More »Al Qaeda active in a third of Afghanistan, says Atmar
Terrorist groups are still ‘deeply embedded’ with Taliban – involved in drug and arms trade and raking in millions of dollars – fomenting fears that Afghanistan could become a terrorist sanctuary after U.S. departs AT News KABUL: Al-Qaeda is still active in a third of Afghanistan, in spite of a …
Read More »Afghanistan reels amid virus surge as daily cases near 2,000
AT News KABUL: The Ministry of Public Health on Sunday recorded 1,927 new cases of coronavirus and 93 deaths across the country in the past 24 hours. According to the ministry’s data, the new cases come positive out of 5,447 suspected samples tested in different laboratories in the same period …
Read More »Taliban capture more districts amid intense clashes
AT News KABUL: The Taliban captured eight districts of several provinces as sever clashes proceeding between the Afghan forces and Taliban amid the U.S. and NATO forces exit that triggered a new hotspot in the war-torn- country. A local source privy to the issue, who was talking on condition …
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