Afghanistan Times

AT News Kabul: Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan reported the occurrence of large-scale clashes along the borders of the two countries and the death of a number of soldiers from both sides. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Tuesday, September 13 that at least 49 Armenian soldiers have …

AT News Kabul: When presenting his report to the Human Rights Council, Richard Bennett, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights for Afghanistan, warned about the human rights situation in the country and said, “Afghans are caught in a human rights crisis that the world seems unable to address.” He …

AT News Kabul: An agreement was signed to create an economic corridor between Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and China. Officials say that according to this contract, commercial goods will be transported to Afghanistan through China, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. On the other hand, some economic analysts consider the signing of this agreement …

AT News Kabul: Rina Amiri, U.S. Special Envoy for Afghan women says that the continuation of the Taliban’s “unfair and destructive” policy of closing the gates of schools above the sixth grade to girls “has no justification.” The representative of the United States, referring to the protest of girls in …

AT News Kabul: The United States has agreed to release a part of Afghanistan’s frozen assets, which were seized after the Taliban came to power last year, the Turkish (TRT) news agency reported. The $3.5 billion in fund is to be likely released to the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) …

AT News Kabul: The former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, met with Markus Potzel, the deputy special representative of UN chief for Afghanistan, and acting director of UNAMA. In this meeting, the situation in Afghanistan and the region was discussed and both sides insisted on the opening of girls’ schools …

AT News Kabul: Moscow abandoned its main bastion in northeastern Ukraine on Saturday, in a sudden collapse of one of the war’s principal front lines after Ukrainian forces made a rapid advance. Russian forces used Izium as the logistics base for one of their main campaigns – a months-long assault …

AT News Kabul: In an interview with Afghanistan International, Ronald Newman the former US ambassador to Afghanistan said that U.S. and afghan leaders are equally blamed for failure in Afghanistan. He said that Americans were not fighting in the last two years and no one had a firm belief to …

AT News KABUL: Former president of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai in a tweet called on the Taliban government to reopen girls’ secondary schools amid a national outcry. Karzai tweeted: “The voice of the school girls in Paktia province for the reopening of their schools is the voice of all our girls …

AT News Kabul: The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, referring to the recent ISIS attack on the Russian embassy in Kabul, said in a statement: The emerging developments in the direction of normalizing the situation in Afghanistan are clearly not pleasing to the United States and its allies. Referring to the …