AT News KABUL: Defense Ministers of the NATO member countries are planned to meet this weeks to discuss the next part of their mission in Afghanistan, amid escalations in the country. NATO has presently 10,000 soldiers in Afghanistan who are busy in training and advising mission to the Afghan army …

AT News KABUL: A former jihadi leader says that the United States plans to retreat from a peace deal it signed last year with the Taliban militants, under which Washington is committed to withdraw all its forces from Afghanistan by May and end its longest war. Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who leads …

AT News KABUL: Former lawmaker from southern Kandahar province, Lalai Hamidzai who had been detained for allegedly misusing his powers, has been released on bail, Attorney General Office said on Sunday. Mr. Hamidzai was arrested in Kabul Airport on Saturday. According to Jamshid Rasouli, the Spokesman of the Attorney General …

AT News CHAGHCHARAN: Families and survivors of the army and police servicemen of Ghor province blamed the government for being careless about their conditions as they are scrambling with bad economic order. They gathered in front of the governor office in a protest, asking the government to immediately help them. …

AT News KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani says that the Soviet Union withdrawal from Afghanistan was conducted in an irresponsible manner and that “no measure (scheme) was considered about the future”. Marking the 32 anniversary of Soviet Union withdrawal from Afghanistan, President Ghani cited the remarks in a video on Sunday. …

32 years ago, Soviet troops fully withdrew from Afghanistan. What happened after that is like an open book to us all. That was also the sole reason for the civil war in the country where tens of people were killed, wounded and millions of others were forced to leave the …

AT News KABUL: Unidentified gunmen opened fire on the driver of the minister of defense in PD 9 of Kabul city, killing him and his son. Kabul police spokesman, Ferdaws Faramarz confirmed the incident but didn’t provide further details. But some security sources, who wished to go unnamed, said that …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 22 new positive cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours across the country, said the ministry of public health on Sunday. The new cases were recorded out of 1,814 suspected samples tested during the same period of time. Three patients have also fully …

By Maria Hayat The loud chatter of pedestrians, the street vendors yelling on top of their lungs to call on customers, the occasional car horns echoing amongst the chaotic traffic, the aroma of warm Bolani being cooked and ready to serve on the sidewalk, the cluster of children trying to …

Afghan officials put all the blame on the Taliban after they quit the table of talks as Afghanistan reels under daily violence even against the doctors, judges, civil society activists and the journalists    AT News  KABUL: The second round of peace talks between the Afghan and Taliban delegations was expected …