AT News Report KABUL: US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo in a phone conversation with President Ashraf Ghani, assured Afghan leader that President Donald Trump’s strategy on Afghanistan has not changed, including military withdrawal. The US Embassy to Kabul, said in a statement that the two sides also agreed on …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The top U.S. general said on Friday he was cautiously optimistic about efforts to reach a negotiated end to the nearly 18-year-old war in Afghanistan, in remarks that followed talks in Kabul with Afghanistan’s president and the top U.S. negotiator. “We’re all cautiously optimistic, in the …

AT News Report KABUL: The extremist groups have recently focused on the universities across the country as good places for propaganda and recruitment the youth, university students say. The faculties of law and theologies are considered as main brainwashing centers for the extremist groups. Basira Akhtar, a student at the …

AT News Report KABUL: The Acting Minister of Transportation on Friday launched work on the construction of Aqina-Andkhoi railway during a ceremony in the northern Faryab province.  Minister Yama Yari said the 30-kilometer railway would connect Afghan Aqina port with Andkhoi of Turkmenistan, adding the project would cost a total …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The ongoing negotiations between the US and the Taliban are a “charade” designed simply to provide the US a “face-saving way out of Afghanistan,” former CIA deputy director Michael Morell said as quoted by Axios. He also said that the Taliban are not tired of war. …

AT News Report KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai in reaction to the US President Donald Trump’s nasty statements on wiping Afghanistan off the face of the earth, said, “President Trump, We are the Pamirs! You can’t wipe out “The Roof of the World.” Moreover, he called on the Afghan to …

AT News Report KABUL: Reacting to the recent remarks made by US President Trump to wipe out Afghanistan, the Russian Embassy in Kabul in a statement on Friday slammed them as ‘propagandist rhetoric’. It also blasted some Afghan political pundits who believe the current misery has been an unending cycle …

The US President Mr. Donald Trump on the eve of his historical meeting and talks with Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has not only made unhappy the Afghans but had also made at irony the Pakhtoons by using words, “wiping Afghanistan of world face.” Now these worlds are considered heated …

AT News Report Kabul: A Taliban delegation, led by Abdul Ghani Baradar, have left Qatar for Indonesia on Friday morning, the militant movement’s mouthpiece said. A Taliban Spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, in a brief statement said that at the head of an eight-member team, Mullah Baradar would hold talks with Indonesian …

AT News Report KABUL: District Police Chief for Khogyani district and two security personnel were killed when the Taliban stormed the police headquarters on Thursday night in the southern province of Ghazni, the provincial police said in a statement on Friday.  Samiullah Popal, the acting police head for Khogyani district, was among two other security …