AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Belgium’s Defense Minister Ludivine Dedonder announced that Belgian troops in Afghanistan will return home next year. “We are preparing our withdrawal,” which “will occur during the year 2021,” Dedonder said in an interview with Het Belang van Limburg newspaper. “We cannot simply leave; agreements have to …

AT News KABUL: At least 260 people were tested positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours across the country, Afghanistan’s Health Ministry said on Sunday. 10 other patients have lost their lives battling the virus during this period of time, according to the ministry. These new cases come positive …

AT News KABUL: The Afghan government on Sunday said it has made significant efforts to preserve cultural heritages and restore historic landmarks across the country as the embodiments of core values of the society and it has been a government’s top priority. “Government of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan has taken …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: International Committee of the Red Cross operations in Afghanistan and Iraq face a funding crisis because of the coronavirus pandemic, chief Peter Maurer said on Saturday. Iraq faces a humanitarian crisis where more than 1.3 million people are displaced. More than 90 per cent of those have been so for more …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The first shipment of Iranian exports has arrived in Afghanistan via a new railroad that links Iran’s eastern city of Khaf to Herat. The shipment was dispatched on a trial basis to detect possible problems on that route, Iranian media reported on Sunday. “The first consignment …

Taliban seeks release of their reaming prisoners, removal of names of their colleagues from the UN Blacklist AT News KABUL: The US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation met with Taliban’s deputy leader Mullah Baradar and chief negotiator Abdula Hakeem in Doha of Qatar, where they discussed issues related to recent …

AT News KABUL: Hamdullah Moheb, President Ashraf Ghani’s National Security Adviser, says that Afghanistan’s political system in the future will be inclusive in which all parties would have representatives. The statement comes as Ghani’s representatives are in Qatar since early September to talk to the Taliban negotiators on peace and …

AT News KABUL: The ministry of education says it plans to shift the grade 1-3 school students to mosques, aiming apparently to make education system as Islam-centered. In a statement issued on Sunday, the ministry called the change as “great and important” for education, saying that this would go ahead …

AT News KABUL: Former chief of intelligence, Rahmatullah Nabil has visited the State Minister for Peace, Sayed Mansoor Naderi to discuss the ongoing progression of the Afghan peace process. Nabil in a statement said that both sides discussed the recent development in the peace talks and next steps of reconciliation …

AT News KABUL: The Afghan politicians and foreign stakeholders in the Afghan peace process have welcomed the formation and the first leadership committee meeting of the Afghanistan High Council for National Reconciliation. The committee held their first maiden meeting on Saturday with participation of Afghan leaders, Jihadi and influential figures. …