Afghanistan Times

AT-KABUL: In yet another attack against a voter registration center in Badghis province, at least eight soldiers have been killed and three other received injuries, a provincial source said on Wednesday. The Provincial Council Head, Abdul Aziz Big said the Taliban insurgents attacked the center in the Laman area in …

AT-KABUL- Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Cooperation Mrs. Adela Raz attended and delivered a speech at the fifth “Stockholm 2018 Forum on Peace and Development” at the invitation of Swedish Foreign Minister, Margot Wallström and; Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for International Development Cooperation of Sweden, Isabella Lövin. The Event was …

AT-KABUL: Afghanistan hopes that the US pull out from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and tensions between two countries would not put negative impacts on it. US President, Donald Trump on Tuesday, announced that his country pulled out the nuclear deal with Iran called as Joint Comprehensive Plan Of …

AT-KABUL:  A crucial member of the Islamic State (IS), which is also widely known as Daesh terrorists, who was a key fundraiser of the extremist group, have been detained during an operation carried out by the National Directorate of Security (NDS’s)  Special Forces in eastern Nangarhar province, provincial official said …

AT-KABUL: Underscoring the growing insecurity across the country a number of lawmakers at the Wolesi Jirga of the parliament asked the security bosses to step down as they failed to maintain security and their poor war leadership. Deterioration of security has been reached at boiling point as only on Wednesday …

The outlook of Afghanistan’s water crisis is not good in the midst of a derelict water infrastructure and weak water management doctrine in Afghanistan and constant bullying of Iran to secure a bigger share of the country’s waters. Decades of war have decimated much of the country. The water infrastructure …

AT-KABUL: Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs, Hekmat Khalil Karzai met the Chief of Development Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Swiss Confederation, Manuel Zagger, as part of his trip for holding the second round of political consultations with the Swiss Confederation, the Foreign Ministry said in a …

By FarhadNaibkhel-KABUL: Taliban staged massive assaults on Tala-wa-Barfak district of northern Baghlan province and Bilchiragh district of northern Faryab province on Tuesday evening, said provincial officials, and Tala-wa-Barfak district has fallen to the Taliban. Taliban Spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid in a statement confirmed the collapse of Tala-wa-Barfak district of Baghlan. The …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: 10 people mostly policemen have been killed and 23 others injured after eight suicide bombers assailed two police stations in Kabul, the capital city on Wednesday. The Interior Minister Wais Ahmad Barmak said that after a blast, two attackers assailed the 13th police station and engaged in …

AT-KABUL: At least 107 militants have been killed and 43 others received injures in multiple extensive military crackdowns carried out by the Afghan security forces in the past 24 hours, security officials said on Wednesday. In a press release issued here, the Ministry of Defense (MoD), said that Afghan National …