Afghanistan Times

AT News KABUL: Deputy of the high council for national reconciliation, Enayatullah Babur Farahmand accused the government of trying to harm the “merely peace” in the northern province of Faryab. He said that the government launched “a cold war in north of Afghanistan.” “There are some bad news from Faryab …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 65 new cases of coronavirus and six deaths in the last 24 hours, the ministry of public health said Saturday. The new cases reported out of 495 suspected samples tested during the same period of time. Another 29 patients have fully recovered during this …

More than 20 people all of them civilians were killed while more than that were wounded on the first and second days of Eid festival in different areas. The incidents claimed lives of nine people in Kunduz province in the north and Kandahar in the south. The second day of …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said that the narrative being portrayed by the media of “gloom and doom” must stop and instead a more positive spin needs to be put on the country’s future. In an interview with Der Spiegel, Ghani said: “The more the media talks …

AT News KABUL: Authorities in the Afghan Ministry of Defense confirmed that the US had handed the Kandahar Airfield over to the Afghan National Army. Deputy spokesperson of the Ministry of Defense Fawad Aman in a tweet said, “The Kandahar Airfield was handed over from US forces to the Afghan …

AT News KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai strongly condemned a bombing attack inside a mosque that killed and injured a large number of people. The attack took place in the Shakar Dara district of Kabul province during the Friday prayer on the second day of Eid. At least 12 people …

AT News KABUL: The second day of the Eid-al-fitr that is also the second of three-day ceasefire between the government and Taliban was followed with violence across the country. On Friday afternoon, a deadly blast claimed the lives of 12 civilians including the Imam of mosque and wounded over 20 …

AT News KABUL: The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with President Ashraf Ghani on phone, where they discussed the regional efforts to advance the Afghan peace process and the recent waves of violence including the attack on Sayed Al-Shuhada school that killed over 80 students and wounded 150 …

This document was prepared for the U.S. Congress by the Afghanistan-U.S. Democratic Peace and Prosperity Council in consultation with senior leadership from the Parliament of Afghanistan including in the Human Rights Civil Society and Women’s Affairs Committee and the Defense Committee. The future of Afghanistan’s democracy, women, youth, and civil …

AT News KABUL: At least 41 drug runners were found guilty to drug trafficking and were sentenced to several years in jail terms in the past one week. A statement issued by the court of Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF), said that eight drug traffickers were sentenced to two and …