Afghanistan Times

A top Taliban official has downplayed any possible threat by the Islamic State terrorist group, Daesh, in Afghanistan, rejecting claims that the group has training centers in the country. Afghanistan’s acting foreign minister Amir Khan Motaqi during his visit to Turkey said there is no security problem posed by Daesh …

The ninth evacuation flight by Qatar Airlines took off on Monday from Kabul, flying hundreds of Afghans to Doha, a Qatari official said. Over 353 passengers including an unknown number of Americans, faculty staff and students of Afghanistan’s American University, citizens of Afghanistan, Australia, the Netherland, and Denmark were flown …

A house-t0-house vaccination campaign will begin in Afghanistan to protect millions of children against polio. In a statement, WHO and UNICEF lauded the Taliban to allow the resumption of the vaccination process to all children in Afghanistan. The vaccination drive again polio will resume on November 8 and will be …

Former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai said the current Taliban government in Afghanistan needs internal legitimacy in order for it to gain international recognition. He said that could only be achieved through the expression of the will of the Afghan people, either in the form of elections or holding the Loya …

Officials of the Islamic Emirate in a meeting with US and European called on the international Community to end sanctions on the Islamic Emirate. The foreign ministry has said in a statement that a high level delegation of the Islamic Emirate, led by acting foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, held …

AT News KABUL: The European Union announced an amount of 1.5 billion-dollar humanitarian package to Afghanistan to prevent further economic crisis in the war-torn country. A part of this fund will go to the neighboring countries of Afghanistan, where hundreds of thousands of people are settled as refugees, fleeing the …

AT News KABUL: Residents in the eastern province of Nangarhar expressed concerns over the surge in polio cases, saying that the medical teams have not accomplished polio vaccination due to security threats in several parts of the province. Doctors said that polio was a contiguous disease and that if the …

AT News KABUL: Chairman of the high council for national reconciliation, Abdullah Abdullah blamed former President, Ashraf Ghani for fall of the country, saying that Ghani’s fleeing from the country caused severe chaos. He made the remarks at India Today Conclave 2021. According to Abdullah, the culmination of some specific …

AT News KABUL: The US and Islamic Emirate Officials reached an agreement over provision of humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan, according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday. The statement said that the direct talks held between the representative of the Islamic Emirate and US officials …

Mohammad Parwiz Arian KABUL: The Education Cannot Wait announced four million dollar grant first emergency response grant in Afghanistan. The new investment responds to the fluid and complex crisis affecting Afghanistan, a sharp increase in internal displacement, and the long-term impacts that decades of conflict have had on Afghanistan’s children …