Afghanistan Times

AT-KABUL: A number of the Islamic scholars on Friday stressed on an intra-Afghan dialogue, calling on the Taliban group to hold talks with the government of Afghanistan. These clerics in a gathering in the northern province of Baghlan, demanded the war sides to observe an armistice with the aim of …

AT-KABUL: A senior Islamic State (IS) also known as Daesh terrorist, has been killed in a US airstrike in eastern Nangarhar province. The news came at the end of a week in which two US service member were killed in Afghanistan in 2019. Provincial governor office said that the drone …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: With reaching its six conservative days of talks between US officials and the Taliban Qatar-based members, source familiar with Doha talks said that they busy negotiating withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan and assertion of ceasefire. It has been said that neogiation would entered its 6-day today …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Sources close to Taliban have said that the leadership council of the group has appointed Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the co-founder of Taliban, as head of Taliban’s Qatar office. Baradar has also been appointed as the third deputy of Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, the leader of Taliban. According …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Disclosing new figures on casualties, President Ashraf Ghani said that 45,000 Afghan security forces personnel have lost their lives since he took the office in September 2014. He said this while addressing a panel at the World Economic Forum. He put the number at more than 28,000 …

The opposition Taliban Movement leaders have made wide range reshuffling in its set-up at Doha Qatar replacing Maulvi Muhammad Abbass Stanakzai by Mulla Abdul Ghani Biradar as chief of Political office. The reshuffling made at the time of fifth round of peace talks between Taliban political office and United States …

Due to one or other reasons especially hostile attitude on the part of Pakistani authorities causing wide range unrest amongst Pakhtoons across the Durand Line. On one hand, Afghanistan and its people are ahead with worst kind of terror, violence and aggression from abroad and on the other the Pakhtoons …

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KABUL: Russia expressed optimism about resumption of peace negotiations between the US and Taliban to help in bringing the conflict to a peaceful resolution. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s envoy for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, has said that Moscow was positive about the resumption of talks on the U.S. troop withdrawal from …

KABUL: The Taliban are consistently taking heavy losses in the battlefield and military offensives and Afghanistan’s armed forces killed at least 56 militants and injured 22 others in crackdowns over past day. The Defense Ministry said that Afghan National Army (ANA) in collaboration with Afghan National Police (ANP) and National …