AT News Report KABUL: The United Nations says that 927 children were killed during clashes in 2018 across Afghanistan. The Afghan Human Rights Commission, condemns the killing of children as human crime by the war parties, calling on them to end conflicts as soon as possible. The United Nations has …
Read More »US congressional panel to question Khalilzad on Taliban talks
AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: A U.S. Congressional committee has issued a subpoena to question President Donald Trump’s special envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad, next week after peace talks with the Taliban abruptly ended. Representative Eliot Engel (Democrat-New York), the chairman of the House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee, said …
Read More »Afghan govt., people should be part of peace bid: India
AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Days after US President Donald Trump called off negotiations with the Taliban group, India said that any peace process should have full consent of the Afghan government and the people. Addressing a weekly briefing, Raveesh Kumar, a spokesman for India’s Ministry of External Affairs, said India …
Read More »IEC terms insecurity core challenge ahead of polls
AT News Report KABUL: The Independent Election Commission (IEC) has defined the ongoing insecurity as the core challenge on the way of presidential elections slated for 28 September. IEC’s spokesman Abdullah Aziz Ibrahimi said they were able to transfer sensitive election materials to 26 provinces out of 34, terming insecurity …
Read More »Eight Taliban rebels killed in Logar op
AT News Report KABUL: Interior Ministry said that Afghan security forces have killed at least eight Taliban militants in an operation carried out in eastern Logar province. The operation was conducted in Baraki Barak district of the province on Thursday night, the ministry said in a statement, adding three others …
Read More »Kabul blast leaves four security personnel dead
AT News Report KABUL: A Taliban suicide car bomber has targeted an Afghan army base on the outskirt of Kabul city, in which four Afghan troops embraced martyrdom and three others received injures, official said Thursday. The blast took place near the Army’s Special Operation Crops in Rishkor, an area …
Read More »Eighth polio case registered in Uruzgan
AT News Report KABUL: Ministry of Public Health on Wednesday confirmed that a new polio case was found in the southern province of Uruzgan, increasing the number of children affected by the disease to eight. Provincial public health department, said in a statement that a 14-month old kid was afflicted …
Read More »Major world powers call on Trump to resume Taliban negotiations
AT News Report KABUL: Three world’s major powers ask the United States to return to talks with the Taliban, after Donald Trump announced last week that he stopped negotiations with the militants after a Thursday suicide attack that killed 12 people including an American soldier in Kabul. Permanent Representatives of …
Read More »18 years after 9/11; Extremist groups yet to defeat
AT News Report KABUL: 18 years back, the United States sent military to Afghanistan after the collapse of Taliban government in November 2001. The decision came in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, which al-Qaeda terrorist network claimed responsibility. The then …
Read More »AIHRC confirms Wardak airstrike targeted civilians
AT News Report KABUL: The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) on Wednesday expressed its grave concern over the recent casualties inflicted in an airstrike in the central Maidan Wardak province and confirmed the victims were all civilians. According to local residents, at least seven civilians lost their lives in …
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