Afghanistan Times

AT-KABUL: Army and police are getting prepared for the winter operations, with the interior ministry saying that the operations would begin in January, a new chapter of war that is called to cleanse areas under Taliban control. “A delegation has started visiting some provinces to evaluate what the security forces …

AT-KABUL: Officials in the northern province of Faryab say that Taliban fighters have blocked the roads leading to a village in the Pashtoonkot district, where 300 families have been stuck in a critical condition of starvation. Abdul Ahad Eilbik, a member of provincial council said Monday that the militants surrounded …

AT-KABUL: US President Donald Trump has sought Pakistan’s help with Afghan peace talks in a letter to Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan, its country’s Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry said Monday. Trump wants to end a 17-year-old war between Afghan security forces and the Afghan Taliban militants, who are fighting to …

AT-KABUL: In his effort to bring peace in Afghanistan, the US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad has resumed peace mission Sunday, where he will travel to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Russia, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Belgium, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar with an interagency delegation. The US Department of State …

AT-KABUL: The Government of Japan has donated $9.1 million in support of UNICEF’s drive to provide life-saving interventions with the collaboration of JICA, addressing urgent needs and rights of Afghanistan’s children and women. According to a statement on Monday, this grant will enable UNICEF and its partners to vaccinate more …

In a bid to broker reconciliation between Afghan government and the Taliban insurgent group, the US Special Envoy Dr. Zalmay Khalilzad has resumed talks with the concerned parties and reached at Doha capital of Qatar. The Taliban Political Office is in operation at Doha from where they are engaged in …

AT-KABUL: Minister of Foreign Affairs Salahuddin Rabbani met the Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China Mr. Liu Jinsong, where they discussed and exchanged views on a wide range of aspects of bilateral ties, as well as the upcoming Afghanistan-Pakistan-China trilateral meeting. Ambassador Jinsong congratulated Foreign Minister Rabbani on the …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has widened its investigation into complaints of discrimination within the Afghanistan Football Federation (AFF) following new allegations of sexual and physical abuse. “The AFC is actively investigating media reports involving the alleged treatment of members of the Afghanistan women’s football team. However …

AT News Report-KABUL: After Taliban’s shadow governor for southern Helmand province, who is also a key member of the Taliban group, has killed in an airstrike, the Taliban insurgents termed it as a big loss. Helmand governor’s office in a statement on Sunday said that Mullah Mohammad Rahim Mannan, also known as Mullah …

A recent explosion in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan has killed dozens of Taliban insurgents. The identity of blast victims yet to be determined but reportedly all of them were Taliban militants and they were on way for carrying out a deadly attack against the Afghan security forces, guarding the motherland from …