AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Taliban insurgents show no sign of reducing the level of violence in Afghanistan to facilitate peace negotiations with the government, and appear to be trying to strengthen their military position as leverage, with the “unprecedented violence” of 2020 carrying into 2021, UN experts said in a …
Read More »UN says Taliban, al-Qaeda remained close
AT Monitoring KABUL: The relations between the Taliban and al-Qaeda remained close, said the UN Security Council, adding the emboldened group of the Taliban is posing severe and expanding threat to the Afghan government. According to CNN, the UN Security Council underscored the remarks in a report released last Wednesday. …
Read More »UN says Taliban, al-Qaeda remained close
AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The relations between the Taliban and al-Qaeda remained close, said the UN Security Council, adding the emboldened group of the Taliban is posing severe and expanding threat to the Afghan government. According to CNN, the UN Security Council underscored the remarks in a report released last …
Read More »Rabbani says some circles in Afghan warring sides lack peace intention
AT News KABUL: Leader of Hezb-e-Jamiat Islami, Salahuddin Rabbani says that some circles of Afghan war sides avoid intention for peace and that they “consider the prolonging of war as mission and goal”. “In one last year, everyday peace is mentioned but a small step has not been offered for …
Read More »Herat clashes inflict casualties on both sides
AT News KABUL: Officials in the western province of Herat said that severe clashes had been continuing between the Afghan security forces and Taliban in several districts of the province that inflicted casualties on both sides. Provincial Governor, Sayed Wahid Qatali said that four security forces were killed including the …
Read More »Female news anchor killed in Kabul blast
AT News KABUL: Mina Khairi, a female news anchor for Ariana News, was among the dead victims of Thursday evening’s Kabul blast in the west of Kabul that killed four others, the head of Ariana News, Sharif Hassanyar has confirmed. The Afghan authorities confirmed through DNA tests that two of …
Read More »EU urges immediate end of violence in Afghanistan
AT News KABUL: Tomas Niklasson, the European Union Special Representative to Afghanistan says that violence has intensified in the country since the US-Taliban peace deal, calling for an immediate end of bloodshed.Niklasson emphasized that the perpetrators of attacks on civilians such as the Sayed ul Shuhada girls’ school need to …
Read More »Afghanistan’s neighbors are expected to help peace, not to make trouble
The United States and its allies in NATO are in a surprising hurry to leave Afghanistan after staying here for 20 years to what they had claimed “war on terror”. The withdrawal that is taking place so hastily as they do not have time to collect their equipment and only …
Read More »Afghanistan records 2,819 cases in two days as Covid-19 peaking
AT News KABUL: The ministry of public health reported 2,819 cases of the pandemic Covid-19 with 70 deaths recorded within the past two days. In this period, 162 patients were recovered. Talking to a news conference, the acting minister of public health, Waheed Majroh said that Afghanistan would face a …
Read More »Afghanistan, China, Pakistan urge responsible withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan, China, and Pakistan called for the responsible and orderly withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan to avoid a deterioration in the security situation in the region or giving terrorist forces the opportunity to thrive. Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Afghan Foreign Minister Mohammad …
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