AT News KABUL: The Taliban claim that President Ashraf Ghani is not able to manage the ongoing peace efforts, alleging that “everything is against his will”. Taliban negotiators have been busy in negotiations with Ghani-appointed team in Qatar since September 12 to seek ways for peace. None of them are …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation, Abdullah Abdullah, will be visiting India from October 6 for four days, Indian media reported. The top peace negotiator representing the Afghan government in the talks with the Taliban that started in 12th September in Doha. This is …

A car bombing in eastern Afghanistan has killed fourteen civilians, the latest in a string of deadly violence amid peace talks. What complicates the situation is that the Taliban continue to brush off responsibility as they preside over the bloodiest massacres in Afghanistan’s history By Farhad Naibkhel KABUL: As many …

AT News Afghanistan is the epicenter of violence as war and fighting is spiraling out of control, slowly eroding two decades of gains since ouster of Taliban. It is a decisive moment for the country too as the government is negotiating a political settlement with the Taliban. Today, October 2, …

An uptick in the levels of violence has been witnessed since the start of the landmark intra-Afghan talks in Doha on September 12. Both the negotiating sides have been blaming each other for ramping up violence while fears simmering that increased violence could potentially cause a setback to the nascent …

AT News KABUL: Abdullah Abdullah, chairman of the reconciliation council says that the Afghan government-appointed delegation and Taliban negotiating team have managed to partly solve their differences over the Jaafari-Hanafi religious jurisprudence. Taliban’s contact group had earlier insisted that the Hanafi (Sunni Muslim) should be considered as the only source …

AT News KABUL: Seven members of the Daesh terrorist group including their head of media branch were arrested in the eastern province of Nangarhar. Attaullah Khogyani, provincial spokesman, said Friday that that the terrorists were arrested in an operation launched by the intelligence agency’s operatives in the Sorkhrod district. He …

Weeks after Afghanistan’s warring factions started arduous negotiations on a roadmap for peace parleys in Qatar, Afghan government and Taliban seem to be edging toward an agreement on major issues of contention AT News KABUL: Signs have emerged of some progress toward resolving deadlock in peace talks as the Afghan …

AT News KABUL: The Afghan, US and Tajik foreign ministers are expected to hold meeting in the “near future” to discuss the Afghan peace efforts and developments in the region, ministry of foreign affairs said Friday. Mirwais Naab, deputy foreign minister, called the United States a strategic partner for Afghanistan, …

AT News KABUL: US Chargé d’Affaires in Kabul, Ross Wilson said that the peace settlement was a bilateral agreement and that Washington didn’t force its resolution. Wilson underscored the remarks after a three-week negotiations between the Afghan government and Taliban delegations in Doha has hit nowhere as of now. Speaking …