AT News KABUL:  The Afghan Commando Forces have freed 34 hostages, including military personnel during a night raid in western Herat province, officials said on Wednesday. They were released in an operation conducted by the Special Forces of the Afghan Commando against a Taliban prison in Korocha village of Adraskan …

AT News KABUL: A senior member of the Jamiat-e-Islami party, Ahmad Zia Massoud says that peace would not be ensured if President Ashraf Ghani remained in power. Speaking to a news conference on Wednesday, Massoud backed the proposals of a participatory government in which the Taliban group could also offer …

AT News KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai strongly condemned a night raid launched in the Arghandi area, Paghman district of Kabul province, in which three civilians were killed. The former president denounced the attack as a clear cruelty against the people of Afghanistan. In a statement, Karzai said Wednesday that …

AT News KABUL: Moscow will likely replace Doha for hosting the next rounds of the ongoing intra-Afghan negotiations, a Russian diplomat said on Wednesday. “Despite reports on restarting of meetings about peace by the negotiating teams after a 45-day lull, we need to acknowledge that there is still an impasse …

AT News KABUL: The United States envoy for Afghan peace Zalmay Khalilzad who is in Kabul, has offered his new plan about the Afghan solution to the government and political figures of Afghanistan, an official at the US department of state said. The official who spoke on condition of anonymity, …

These attacks serve one purpose to spread fear and limit the freedom of speech – these evil designs of the anti-media elements must fail By Basir Media is one of the main elements of a democratic society. It reveals and probes truths naturally and impartially. The poisonous circles in a …

The U.S. Special Envoy to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad visited Kabul and met with Afghan leaders, almost all key and influential figures with aim to discuss new steps for accelerating the peace process, but this time with new approaches and a new plan. Indeed his full intention was to resume discussion …

AT News KABUL: At least 42 Taliban militants have been killed and 12 others were wounded during latest crackdowns carried out by the Afghan security forces in different provinces in the past 24 hours, defense ministry said on Wednesday. Afghan Air Forces targeted Taliban gathering in “Kabuliha” village in Qaisar …

AT News KABUL: The severe droughts caused by frequent lack of rainfalls and snowfalls are worrying people in Afghanistan especially in the rural areas where people are mostly engaged in agriculture and livestock breeding. Baz Mohammad is a farmer in Badghis province in the northwest, where he also runs livestock …

AT News KABUL: The National Security Advisor says that the Taliban rebels are using civilians as shields on the battlefields in which the Afghan security forces had avoided conducting 2,000 operations in a bid not to harm them. “War has norms in every country, but the Taliban are not committed …