Afghanistan Times

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Senior American officials have said the Taliban, after the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Afghanistan, would once again be able to attack major cities in the country. Lt Gen Vincent Stewart, the director of defense intelligence agency told members of House Armed Services Committee said that …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Terming the recent remarks by the European Union (EU) ambassador a kind of interference in the country’s election affairs, the Independent Election Commission (IEC) said Wednesday that the EU ambassador’s statement is against diplomatic norms and it will be his personal point of view. The EU envoy, …

AT-KABUL: At least four people were killed when their car, they were traveling in, collided head-on with a 22-wheeler truck on Nangarhar-Turkham Highway, local officials said. The incident took place on Wednesday morning when the car driver lost control and crushed his car with the truck bound to Nangarhar from …

KABUL: The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) on Wednesday said that 16,000 Afghans die every year from different types of cancer. Addressing a press conference in connection with the World Cancer Day, Minister for Public Health, Ferozuddin Feroz, said that 20,000 people per year are affected by many forms of …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: An official in the Ministry of Interior (MoI) rejected concerns about increasing militants’ infiltration in the ranks of security forces. Najibullah Danesh, a spokesman for the MoI said the recent insider attack in Kandahar does not mean that militants can infiltrate ranks of security forces. Two policemen …

AT-KABUL: Afghan Women’s Network and a number of right activists urged the government of national unity to enhance women’s political participation. Tens of women rights activists in a gathering on Tuesday said that the government should deliver on its promises to appoint four women ministers in its cabinet. Hasina Safi, …

AT-KABUL: Four policemen were killed and four others wounded, when security forces clashed with militants in southern Uruzgan province. The incident took place the other night when police surrounded a number of militants in a house in Charchino district of the province, said an official source, adding that the surrounded …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The United Kingdom has kicked off implementation of a National Action Plan for women, peace and security in Afghanistan, the British embassy in Kabul said on Tuesday. The embassy said in a statement that Sir Richard Stagg, the UK ambassador to Afghanistan, hosted a reception at the …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Ministry of Defense (MoD) on Tuesday reiterated that the Afghan security forces were ready to defend any kind of attack by anti-government elements, and said there is no need for increasing number of foreign troops in the country. Radio Azadi quoted the head of MoD operation, …

KABUL:  The US Defense Secretary nominee Ashton Carter on Tuesday said that there would be change in drawdown plan from Afghanistan unless the security situation deteriorated by the end of 2016 year. Ashton Carter has served as Deputy US Secretary of Defense from 2011 to 2013 and recently had been …