Afghanistan Times

AT News KABUL: The new educational year just began this week in the country’s provinces with cold weather where schools are open in spring and summer. But a number of students say that healthcare orders are not observed in their schools while the Corona virus still takes victims from people. …

AT News KABUL: A top Afghan official on Saturday called on the Taliban to come out of their hideouts and engage in meaningful talks in order to take full use of the current opportunity for peace. The National Security Advisor, Hamdullah Mohib called on the Taliban to not miss the …

AT News KABUL: At least 20 Taliban rebels were killed and 14 others were wounded during latest crackdowns carried out by the Afghan security forces in different provinces across the country in the past 24 hours, defense ministry said on Saturday. The Afghan security forces carried out an operation in …

After almost 20 years of presence in Afghanistan, the U.S. is seeking a political solution for the longest war in its history, driven from the attacks of 9/11, carried out by the al-Qaeda terrorist network there. The U.S. special envoy succeeded a preliminary peace deal on February 29th of 2020, …

AT News KABUL: China blames the U.S. for trying to destabilize the situation in Xinjiang state of the country.  The Chinese foreign ministry’s spokesman, Hua Chunying on Saturday afternoon in a press conference played a video of former chief of staff of former secretary of state, Colin Powell, who was …

AT News KABUL: The U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad has departed for Turkey and the region, the U.S. State Department said on Saturday, in a push to encourage Afghan parties to accelerate negotiations to end conflict in the country. The State Department said in a statement that Khalilzad …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: According to a news report, US intelligence agencies have told the Biden administration that the Taliban could overrun most of Afghanistan within two to three years if US troops leave before a power-sharing deal is reached between the warring sides. Such a takeover potentially would allow …

Though the people of Afghanistan are not much optimism to meetings, sessions and conferences that have been and are held in different countries where participants talk on peace in the war-hit country, but this time the views look to be different and that is about the upcoming conference that is …

AT News                KABUL: Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation, Abdullah Abdullah has said that Afghanistan should reach a significant progress in the upcoming Turkey meeting. The meeting in Turkey, in which the representatives of some other countries would also participate, and is set …

AT News KABUL: Russia has warned of a deteriorated situation in Afghanistan if the U.S. troops remained beyond May 1, a deadline for the American soldiers withdrawal agreed on a peace deal signed between the U.S. and Taliban in February 2020. The Russian Special Envoy for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov cited …