AT News KABUL: In the midst of sever tensions between US and Iran, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a press conference on Tuesday accused Iran of trying to sabotage the Afghan peace process. Pompeo said, “Iran shouldn’t use its connection with the Taliban to derail the peace talk process …

AT News KABUL: Electoral complaints commission’s investigation and adjudication of thousands of complaints which allege massive fraud and vote rigging is drawing to a close, according to the tribunal’s spokesperson Qasem Ilyasi. Ilyasi said on Tuesday that a vast majority of complaints – 90 percent – have been adjudicated and …

AT News KABUL: A UN statement says that flights from Kabul international airport were temporarily stopped due to missile tests by the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Radio Liberty claimed Tuesday it had received the statement released by the United Nations office in Kabul. The news channel said that the …

AT News KABUL: Hundreds of people in western Herat province on Tuesday took out to the streets, expressing worries over the recent tension between US and Iran erupted after US killed Iran’s top general in an airstrike in Iraq. They fear of over intensification of proxy wars in Afghanistan. The …

AT News KABUL: Members of Senate ask the government to immediately stop operations launched by the intelligence agency’s Special Forces Unit, an angry demand following a series of unit’s attacks against civilians which in the most recent case, five people including a former jihadi leader were killed in the weekend …

AT News KABUL: Ministry of Commerce and Industry says that merchandise exports have had a 33 percent increase since the air corridors have begun connecting Afghanistan to many regional states. Sameer Rasa, spokesman for the ministry of commerce and industry, said Tuesday that 855 flights exported some 5,300 tons of …

AT News KABUL: Sources close to Taliban say they doubt if the militants’ leadership would agree with a violence reduction. The US negotiator Zalmay Khalilzad went back to Qatar where he has held 10 rounds of talks with Taliban representatives on Afghan peace. Khalilzad announced a pause for talks in …

AT News KABUL: The resurrection of US talks with the Taliban in Qatar has elicited galloping optimism within Afghanistan about a historic peace deal to restore peace and plot a road map to a post-war Afghanistan. Afghanistan High Peace Council is convinced that a fresh trip of US special envoy …

“Our salvation, stability, and security lies in our understanding and cooperation,” Karzai said in Tehran AT News KABUL: In the wake of dangerous straining of U.S.-Iran ties in recent days, former Afghan president Hamid Karzai on Tuesday stressed the need for de-escalation after the US assassination of a top Iranian …

AT News KABUL: Authorities in western Farah province on Tuesday said that several villages had been cleared of Taliban militants during operation conducted by Afghan security forces. Different villages cleared from Taliban during crackdown carried out by Afghan National Security and Defense Forces (ANSDF) in outskirt of Farah city and …