AT News KABUL: Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the ongoing crisis in Afghanistan on Wednesday, amid a worsening humanitarian and economic turmoil in the war-ravaged country. The Chinese and Russian leaders conferred on Afghanistan in a virtual meeting Wednesday night, the China Global Television Network …
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AT News KABUL: China has delivered the second batch of its winter supplies to Afghanistan as part of its efforts to help the impoverished nation amid crippling economic crisis. Interim deputy minister of refugees and repatriation affairs, Arsala Kharoti, and Chinese Ambassador Wang Yu attended the handover ceremony at a …
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AT News KABUL: Central Bank said on Tuesday that it is taking measures to ensure the stability of the afghani, a day after a rapid 12 percent loss of its value against the dollar amid a deepening economic crisis and soaring inflation. The abrupt withdrawal of foreign aid following the …
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KABUL: The New Yorker Magazine in a lengthy report has shed light on the Afghan peace process – from its start in 2010 to the foreign forces’ withdrawal in August of this year. Titled ‘The Secret History of the US Diplomatic Failure in Afghanistan’, the report first narrates the attempts …
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AT News KABUL: The UK government is planning to allocate $99.5 million humanitarian aid to Afghanistan. UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss plans to allocate another batch of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, in the amount of 75 million pounds, the British Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office informs, reported Sputnik. The foreign office specified on Saturday that out of the total aid …
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AT News KABUL: Health staff at government and private hospitals has rung alarm bells over air pollution in Kabul, saying patients with respiratory illnesses are increasing by the day as the winter season begins. The air in Kabul becomes toxic every year because of the smoke from domestic heaters burning …
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AT News KABUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that his country does not have “the luxury” of turning its back on Afghanistan. “It is our common wish that Afghanistan achieves lasting peace and stability,” Erdogan told a meeting of the Parliamentary Union of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation …
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AT News KABUL: In August 2019, then-President Donald Trump asked his special envoy for Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, if the US could give money to the Taliban to ensure they adhered to his administration’s demands amid ongoing peace talks, according to a New Yorker report. Among other demands, the Trump administration wanted …
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AT News KABUL: Fifteen European Union countries have pledged to offer protection to nearly 40,000 people from Afghanistan. Germany alone has agreed to take in more than half of the evacuees. The European Union’s Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, announced after a meeting of the bloc’s interior ministers on Thursday …
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AT News KABUL: US General McKenzie, commander of Central Command, has warned that Al-Qaeda and ISIS terrorist networks have been growing in Afghanistan. During an interview with the Associated Press, Gen. McKenzie talked broadly about US strategies in Middle Eastern countries, including the growth of Al-Qaida and ISIS in Afghanistan …
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