In the past 20 years, one of the greatest progresses in Afghanistan was freedom of expression and free media. Both the former and incumbent governments not only supported free media, but treated as fourth pillar of democracy. Since the fall of the Taliban, the Afghan media sector has experienced dramatic …

AT News KABUL: Two Afghan neighboring states (Iran and Pakistan) express concerns over an active presence of Daesh terrorist group in the war-hit country. Senior Iranian and Pakistani diplomats who are experts in Afghan affairs, expressed concerns in meeting on Monday in Tehran, saying that the Daesh presence in Afghanistan …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 23 new coronavirus infections and one death in the past 24 hours across the country, said the Ministry of Public Health on Monday. The total tally since the outbreak of the epidemic reached to 55,995 cases around the country. The news cases come positive …

AT New KABUL: At least 18 Taliban militants have been killed and three others wounded during a crackdown carried out in southern Kandahar province. Afghan security forces supported by the Afghan Air Forces conducted operation against Taliban insurgents in Arghandab and Zherai districts of Kandahar, in which 18 Taliban rebels …

AT News KABUL: The Ministry of Defense on Monday said that 1,057 soldiers completed military training and graduated from Kabul Military Training Center. Out of 1,057 trained soldiers, 102 are female, who completed a 12 week military training, the ministry said in a statement. Army Chief of Staff General Mohammad …

AT News KABUL: China, which has stepped up its engagement for the success of peace process in Afghanistan, on Sunday called for the orderly foreign troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. Speaking in a press conference, Chinese Ambassador to Afghanistan, Wang Yu expressed concern over the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan, …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan is not expected to go back to the dark era of war, deputy defense minister Shah Mahmood Miakhil assured. Civil wars in the 1990s by the mujahideen groups changed Kabul city to a ruin. Now, the people of Afghanistan are worried they would witness another war …

AT News KABUL: Afsana Nawabi, one of veteran and pioneer women singers passed away in Germany at the age of 70. She was recently suffering from cancer. Mohammad Taher Zohair, acting minister of information and culture, said Sunday that Paikar Soltan known by her stage name Afsana passed away in …

AT News KABUL: The Russian Foreign Ministry has displaced a wrong map showing Pamir and Wakhan areas, located in the northern province of Badakhshan, out of Afghanistan’s territory. Two days ago, the Russian Foreign Ministry published a map which indicated a path from Pakistan to Tajikistan via Badakhshan’s areas of …

AT News KABUL: Abdullah Abdullah, head of reconciliation council called on the statistics department not to include different tribes in the electronic identification cards. The comment follows Vice President Mohammad Sarwar Danesh’s reaction to the statistics department’s decision over registering small tribes in the electronic ID card. Danesh said on …