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AT News KABUL: At least 191 Taliban insurgents have been killed and 102 others wounded in a series of military crackdowns carried out by the Afghan security forces in different provinces in the past 24 hours, defense ministry said Saturday. Backed by the Afghan Air Force, the Afghan security forces …
Read More »Turkey edges towards Kabul airport deal with US
AT News KABUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that an agreement had been reached with the United States on how to secure Kabul airport under Turkish administration. Erdogan said the US and Turkish defense ministers discussed the issue on Friday. “During the discussions with the US and NATO, …
Read More »UAE suspends Afghan flights amid virus fears
AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The United Arab Emirates is set to suspend civil flights from Afghanistan as of July 11, fearing the corronavirus outbreak. However, transit flights would be active, said the official news agency WAM on Saturday. The UAE will also disallow its citizens from traveling to Afghanistan, with …
Read More »Ismail Khan forms own militia against Taliban
AT News KABUL: A former Jihadi leader, Mohammad Ismail Khan vows of mobilizing thousands of armed forces to fight the Taliban in western Herat province as the insurgents have recently made rapid territorial gains across the country. Khan officially declared the People’s Resistance Movement of western Afghanistan in consultative meeting …
Read More »Insurgents capture 2 military bases in Kandahar
AT News KABUL: The Taliban have purportedly overrun two military outposts in PD 7 Kandahar’s capital city, a security source said on Friday. Provincial Police said that the reinforce security forces arrived in the area to push the militants back. Kandahar is insecure province in the south, where fierce clashes …
Read More »Karzai lauds Kabul-Taliban ‘rapprochement’ in Iran
AT News KABUL: Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has extolled the recent meeting between Afghan government and Taliban delegations in Tehran as “an effective step towards peace in the country”. He welcomed a joint statement by both the parties, who met in Tehran, which called the continuation of war a …
Read More »Afghanistan receives 1.4 million doses of Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine
AT News KABUL: More than 1.4 million doses of the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine arrived today in Afghanistan. Donated by the United States to COVAX, the 1,484,900 doses were delivered through the COVAX Facility’s dose-sharing scheme to the Government of Afghanistan. This is the first of two vaccine consignments …
Read More »Taliban visit Moscow to woo Russia, harp on gains
AT News KABUL: A Taliban delegation is visiting Moscow, in a bid to allay fears that the group’s territorial expansion won’t threaten Russia’s allies in Central Asia – the latest in a constellation of the Taliban’s trips across the region as part of peace process. Representatives of the Taliban flew …
Read More »Dilip Kumar will be remembered in Afghanistan as legend and unparalleled star
By Hafiz AhmadiKABUL: Dilip Kumar, the legendary and veteran Indian actor who has a great number of fans in Afghanistan passed away on Wednesday, July 07 due to illness at a Mumbai hospital.Kumar was born in a Muslim family of Pashtoon origin on December 11, 1922 in the Qissa Khwani …
Read More »Afghanistan records 1,092 virus cases, 62 deaths
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 1,092 new cases of coronavirus and 62 deaths in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said on Wednesday. The new cases come positive out of 3,481 suspected samples in the past 24 hours. Another 1,062 patients have fully recovered during these hours and …
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