Afghanistan Times

AT-KABUL: Afghan spy agency has busted a five-member kidnapping gang in Herat province. According to a media statement issued here on Wednesday, the National Directorate of Security (NDS) has arrested members of the gang who were also involved in armed robberies in Herat. The gang was headed by Zubair. He …

At least 25 security forces personnel were killed and 40 others wounded in a bloody showdown, which led Taliban to capture parts of the strategically important Musa Kala district in southern Helmand province, an official said. Haji Karim Atal, Helmand Provincial Council head, expressed concern over the fall of the …

KABUL: Two men in Afghan military uniforms shot dead two NATO soldiers on a base in the country’s south on Wednesday (Aug 26), the coalition said. So-called “green-on-blue” insider attacks – when Afghan soldiers or police turn their guns on international troops – have been a major problem during NATO’s …

Once again the Taliban showed their real face—the darker and barbaric face. They have gone so much insane and bloodthirsty that they even set the houses of civilians on fire. Even though the civilians in no way were connected to the government. These barbaric Taliban even beat to a pregnant …

AT-KABUL: At least 60 Taliban militants, including two commanders, have been killed in fighting with Afghan security forces in Musa Qala district of Helmand province, said officials. This comes at a time that tribal elders from the province have recently warned that the province might fall into the Taliban, if …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Unknown gunmen shot dead an Imam (prayer leader) of a mosque in Kapisa province, said a local official. Muhammad Azim Kohistani, the police of chief of Second Part of Kohestan district of Kapisa, told Bokhdi News that the Imam was on his way from mosque to home …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Kabul is going to host defense ministers of the regional countries for the first time, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Deputy Foreign Minister, Hekmat Khalil Karzai, in a meeting with the United Nations Secretary-General’s Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan, said that a summit of defense …

“Taliban’s barbarism is at its apex as a 13-year old boy burnt to death in this incident,” says a resident AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Officials say that the Taliban insurgents set five houses of civilians ablaze in the Chak district of central Maidan Wardak province on Tuesday. Governor Spokesman, Attaullah Khogyani, …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Three would-be suicide bombers who wanted to kill the First Vice President, Abdul Rashid Dostum, have been arrested in northern Faryab province, official said on Tuesday. Three suicide bombers confessed in their primary investigation that they wanted to attack Gen. Dostum in Qaisar district of the province. …

Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi-KABUL: The Ministry of Public Works (MoPW) on Tuesday awarded contract of the Lot-1 of the Herat bypass road construction to a local firm called the Unique Construction Company. The 20.4 kilometers long and 10 meters wide road will be completed within next 18 months. The road will …