AT News KABUL: Former president Ashraf Ghani said he fled the country as the Taliban closed in Kabul on August 15 only to prevent the destruction of Kabul, in a brazen attempt to whitewash his escape which led to a collapse of Afghanistan. The Taliban seized power in August after …

AT News KABUL: As the omicron variant is spreading fast across the world and some neighboring countries, the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) said that the World Health Organization (WHO) has been asked to provide the omicron’s testing kits for Afghanistan. Reports stated that the omicron coronavirus variant has been …

AT News KABUL: Russia’s special representative to Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov announced that his country will host Troika Plus on Afghanistan in January 2022 inviting the US, China, and Pakistan. Earlier, Pakistan hosted Troika Plus concentrated on Afghanistan, and the Taliban authorities were also invited to the meeting. It is still …

AT News KABUL: The U.S. has appointed two women diplomats to senior posts representing Washington in Afghanistan, as the country is seeing women’s rights deteriorate under the new Taliban rule. On Wednesday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken appointed Rina Amiri as a special envoy for Afghan women, girls and …

AT News KABUL: A senior international aid official said Thursday that Afghanistan is being hit by multiple crises that are “progressively getting worse,” with drought, economic collapse and displacement all pushing the population into catastrophic hunger. Alexander Matheou, Asia-Pacific regional director for the International Federation of the Red Cross and …

AT News KABUL: The Taliban has said that three radar systems will be installed across Afghanistan to control the airspace and track civil and military planes. In a statement on Tuesday, Imamuddin Ahmadi, a spokesman of the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, said that a total of 12 radar …

AT News KABUL: Russian President Vladimir Putin has faced backlash of the Taliban for his concerns over insecurity at Afghanistan’s borders with Central Asian countries, with the Taliban saying that there is no threat from Afghanistan‘s borders to regional countries. A spokesperson of the Taliban Inamullah Samangani reacted and said that there is neither …

AT News KABUL: Dozens of women rallied on streets of Kabul city on Wednesday to protest against the United States for freezing Afghanistan Bank assets as the economy is crumbling amid continued international sanctions. The women protestors urged the US to free Afghanistan assets to prevent further deterioration of the economic crisis. …

AT News KABUL: Poverty has driven an exodus of children from school, and a recent economic collapse has seen many children quit school to work hazardous jobs to support their poverty-stricken families. Most of the children who quit school to work are extremely disappointed about their future as most Afghan …

AT News KABUL: The west is “sleepwalking into the biggest humanitarian crisis of our times” in Afghanistan, Gordon Brown has warned, as he called for a support package to save the country from economic and social collapse after the Taliban’s takeover. Four months after the western-backed government was overthrown following a mass military withdrawal, …