AT News KABUL: Condemning the recent violence in the country, Abdullah Abdullah, Chairman of Afghanistan’s High Council for National Reconciliation, hit out at the Taliban for trying to gain political advantage by escalating violence. Dr. Abdullah made the remarks on Wednesday during a meeting with Uzbekistan’s Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamelov …

Covid-19 cases in Afghanistan is pigmenting toward a slight spike in the recent week with 166 fresh cases on Tuesday and three deaths and 146 cases on Wednesday with four deaths. Afghanistan has taken many measures to combat the virus, but it also faces with abundance challenges, many of which …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 146 new positive cases of Coronavirus in the last 24 hours, bringing the total tally to 42,609 cases throughout the country, the Ministry of Public Health said Wednesday. The Ministry said these cases come positive out of 555 suspected samples tested during this period. …

AT News KABUL: At least 58 Taliban rebels were killed and 25 others were wounded in latest crackdowns conducted by the Afghan security forces in different provinces in the last past 24 hours, defense ministry said Tuesday. Around 37 Taliban rebels were killed and 20 others wounded after they were …

Taliban see Doha agreement as an ‘excellent basis’ for bringing an end to the war AT News KABUL: The Taliban group, who found itself in tatters after Joe Biden defeated his Republican incumbent rival Donald Trump in the high-stakes 2020 US presidential election, is looking forward to pushing to wrap …

AT News KABUL: The Russian President Vladimir Putin in his address to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit on Tuesday said the situation in Afghanistan remains a concern for the SCO member states and that Russia will continue to work for peace and national reconciliation in Afghanistan. “Russia, as always, …

AT News KABUL: Fawzia Koofi, a former member of the Parliament who is representing the Afghan government in ongoing peace negotiations with the Taliban in Qatar, is hopeful that the stalemated intra-Afghan talks will resume and they will bring change in Afghanistan. In an exclusive interview with Afghanistan Times, Koofi …

AT News KabuL: Police Chief of Daikundi province – at a joint provincial committee meeting on Monday to investigate his aide’s violence against a local journalist – not only refused to address the case but insulted local journalists and even threatened a representative of Afghanistan Journalists Center who had called …

AT News KABUL: Pakistan Prime Minister, Imran Khan says there is no military solution to the conflict in Afghanistan. “The solution can only be reached through the negotiation process,” he said. In his address to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit on Tuesday, Khan said, “We are supporting efforts to …

AT News KABUL: Kunduz provincial council says eight members of Afghan forces have been killed in an attack by Taliban insurgents on a checkpoint which transpired in Khanabad district. Kunduz provincial council chairman, Mohammad Yusuf Ayoubi, has said that eight Afghan troops were killed and three others were wounded in …