AT News Report KABUL: US Special Envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad has landed in Kabul on Sunday to hold talks with top Afghan officials. Khalilzad, who lead talks with Taliban until negotiations collapsed last month, is in Afghanistan amid speculation the US is attempting to restart the effort for …
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AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State (IS) group was reportedly killed in an operation by U.S. forces in Syria, U.S., Western Media Reported on Sunday. A U.S. official told The Associated Press late Saturday that al-Baghdadi was targeted in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province. …
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AT News Report KABUL: Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Sunday says it will announce the preliminary result of presidential election on 14th November that was set to be announced on 19 October but delayed due to further transparency. “We will never sacrifice transparency for speed,” Chairwoman of IEC, Hawa Alam …
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AT News Report KABUL: At least five children have been killed and one other received injures after a planted bomb went off in northern Faryab province on Sunday morning, an official said. 209 Shaheen Army Crops in a statement said that the bomb had been planted by Taliban insurgents in …
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AT News Report KABUL: The World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a new humanitarian contribution of €898,200 from the European Union to help Afghan families hit-hard by last year’s drought rebuild their lives. The contribution will allow WFP to assist 2,000 families in Afghanistan’s western province of Badghis – the …
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AT News Report KABUL: Washington and its NATO partners are on the same boat that best way to ensure terrorist will never again be able to attack them is an enduring political settlement in Afghanistan. US Defense Secretary Mark Esper in a statement on Saturday said, “the Resolute Support mission …
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AT News Report KABUL: The third meeting between Taliban and Afghan politicians supposed to be held in China next week, was postponed for a short time, officials in the High Peace Council said. Hajji Din Mohammad, a member of the council said on Saturday that the decision to postpone China …
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AT News Report KABUL: The US forces’ general commander in Afghanistan, Austin Scott Miller says that war in Afghanistan would continue until a peace deal is gained. Miller told reporters at the sideline of the NATO defense ministers in Brussels that war would not stop against Taliban until a peace …
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AT News Report KABUL: The first vice president, Abdul Rashid Dostum who is visiting Turkey, met with the country’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, discussing peace process and presidential election in Afghanistan. Sources in the Jonbesh-e-Melli (National Movement) party, led by Dostum, said that he also talked to Turkish …
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AT News Report KABUL: The Independent Election Commission (IEC) has not managed yet to determine a date for the announcement of preliminary results of the presidential election as senior officials solve their disagreements and differences. Aurangzeb, a member of the commission, said Saturday that the commission’s secretariat had suggested a …
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