AT News Report-KABUL: Two policemen and four civilians escaped from the captivity of Taliban after killing two insurgents in western Herat province, said officials on Saturday. The gubernatorial spokesperson Abdul Ahad Walizad said insurgents had kidnapped cops and four residents of Chishti Sharif district on Friday midnight. The captive policemen …
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AT News Report-KABUL: A number of political commentators and former government officials have confided that peace process was bedeviled with a dragging stalemate and the central government and its allies were reluctant towards embarking a meaningful and successful reconciliation. Addressing an event marking the launch of a new political movement …
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AT News Report-KABUL: Yet another sit-in camp was set up in northern Balkh province, demanding militants to renounce violence and embrace peace. Residents and civil society activists also demanded the UN mission to backlist Pakistan as a terror sponsoring state. The activists said their movement was aimed at supporting peace …
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AT News Report-KABUL: The government is seeking to boost quality of education in educational centers across the country, Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah has said. Abdullah who inaugurated a new complex for Kabul Accounting and Management Institute in Kabul on Thursday said those wicked and blind individuals who destroy schools, …
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AT News Report-Kabul: District chief and security chief of Khwaja Omari in southern Ghazni province were killed after insurgents staged a predawn ambush in the district on Thursday midnight. The gubernatorial spokesperson Aref Noori said that Khwaja Omari district had come under ambush of insurgents wielding heavy and light weapons …
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“This is going to be the first season where we have had a fully-resourced plan to support the Afghans in conducting counterinsurgency operations inside of Afghanistan” AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Chairman of the United States Army Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Joseph Dunford, said the current war season in Afghanistan …
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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: More than 600,000 Afghans returned home voluntarily or were deported from Pakistan and Iran last year, bringing the number of returnees to Afghanistan since 2001 to over eight million. IOM said on Thursday reintegration in Afghan society was difficult for returnees, with the country still mired in …
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AT News Report-KABUL: Four fighters loyal to the notorious terrorist group of the Islamic State (IS), which is also known as Daesh rebels, have been killed by their won bomb in the Chapa Dara district of eastern Kunar province, official said. A key commander of the extremist group, are among …
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AT News Report-KABUL: Over 100 insurgents have been killed and scores were received injures in different crackdowns carried out by the Afghan security forces across the country in the past 24 hours, security official said on Friday. In addition to that, seven other militant have been detained. In a statement …
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AT News Report-KABUL: The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) renews its call upon all parties to the conflict to increase efforts to protect civilians, as the number of civilians killed and injured by armed conflict in the first quarter of 2018 remained at the same high level recorded in …
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