Afghanistan Times

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Academy Award-winning actress and refugee activist Angelina Jolie pushed for the inclusion of women in peace talks to end the conflict in Afghanistan during an address to ministers and diplomats at the United Nations on Friday.   Peace talks between US and Taliban officials began late …

AT News Report KABUL: At least nine police officers were killed in a Taliban attack on their checkpoint in Ghazni province, officials said. Members of provincial council said Friday that the attack was carried out Thursday night in the Ghazni city, the provincial capital, with some of them alleging that …

AT News Report KABUL: Taliban fighters have blocked all the roads to the Azra district of Logar province, pressuring residents with a fully besiege, residents and officials said. Residents said on Friday that besiege has caused foodstuff prices doubled, while they are also facing health problems as the roads to …

AT News Report KABUL: A member of parliament claims that the Daesh terrorist network is accelerating recruitment in the eastern provinces of Nangarhar, Kunar, Laghman and Nooristan. Lawmaker, Hazrat Ali said on Friday that the group’s newly-recruited fighters are sent to Pakistan for training and are brought back to the …

AT News Report KABUL: Security forces in the northern province of Baghlan are using schools as strongholds, depriving students from attending classes, residents in the province say. People in Baghlan say that security forces use not only schools, but other educational centers are also turned to their fortresses. “Thousands of …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Afghanistan’s permanent representative to the UN has been elected to serve as vice president of the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP). Adela Raz was unanimously selected for the position during a meeting of the CEIRPP Thursday morning. …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Within the framework of implementation of a protocol for expansion of cross-border cooperation for disaster preparedness and response to emergency situations between Tajikistan and Afghanistan signed in February 2018, the first training for Tajik and Afghan female rescuers has begun in Dushanbe, according to the Committee …

AT News Report KABUL: US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad has met and discussed Afghan peace process with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg Khalilzad who recently concluded fifth round of talks with Taliban members in Qatar, has embarked on multi-nation trip as part of his efforts for facilitating …

AT News Report KABUL: The government of Afghanistan has inaugurated for the first time-ever a pine nut processing factory in Kabul on Thursday, where President Ashraf Ghani and over 200 Afghan politicians including Chinese Ambassador Liu Jinsong were present. During the inauguration, President Ghani vowed to transform Afghanistan, which boasts …

Reports from eastern Afghanistan reveal that over two thousands families from a par flung area of Kunar province have abandoned homes due to infighting between warring militant and armed groups in the area. The renewed round of armed clashes erupted between the two rival militant groups with commencing of spring …