Afghanistan Times

AT News KABUL: The Taliban has released 16 civilians kept in their custody in Qarabagh district of central Ghazni province, local officials said Wednesday. A member of Ghazni provincial council, Fatima Rahimi said that the hostages were released on Tuesday. A tribal elder, Abdul Malik Habibi said that the hostages …

AT News KABUL: At least 10 civilians, including women and children lost their lives after a vehicle they were travelling in submerged in Helmand River in southern Uruzgan province, officials said on Wednesday. Provincial Governor Spokesman, Ahmad Shah Sahel said the incident happened after a vehicle stranded in a river …

Prof. Noor Ahmad Khalidi, Translated by Rafiullah Anwari We have previously discussed that the Durand line becomes unrecognized after the death of Afghan King (Emir) Abdul Rahman Khan. (His son) Emir Habibullah Khan was forced by British India (British Raj) to sign recognition of the line in 1905 which is …

AT News KABUL: At least 38 Taliban rebels were killed in latest raids carried out by the Afghan security forces across the country in the past 24 hours, defense ministry said. The ministry on Tuesday in a statement said that the operations were conducted in Kandahar, Ghazni, Ghor, Faryab and …

AT News KABUL: Just one year after the Coronavirus pandemic in the country, the government of Afghanistan started vaccination drive on Tuesday. The campaign began after India donated 500,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Afghanistan which will be enough for 250,000 people. President Ashraf Ghani said at the beginning of …

AT News KABUL: The Afghan and Taliban negotiating teams have agreed to resume talks on peace after more than one month delay that the militant group did not want to meet the Afghan team in the Persian Gulf’s Arab State of Qatar. The two teams sat behind the table in …

AT News KABUL: Foreign Minister, Hanif Atmar is scheduled to travel to the Russian capital of Moscow today (Wednesday) with the aim of attracting regional consensus on the Afghan peace efforts. “The ministry of foreign affairs will chair a delegation in Moscow visit where he is to meet Russia’s high-level …

UNAMA documented more than 3,000 civilians killed in a single year, with Afghanistan remaining among the deadliest places in the world to be a civilian AT News KABUL: Civilian casualties in Afghanistan have escalated sharply since peace talks between the Afghan and the Taliban peace teams began last year, the …

AT News KABUL: The recruitment in-charge of the Taliban was arrested during an operation carried out by the Special Forces in Kabul, officials said on Tuesday. “Police Special Forces conducted an operation in 9th PD of Kabul and succeeded in arresting a Taliban recruitment In-charge, the Ministry of Interior said …

With deadly violence spiking around the country, a slight hope has once again emerged for its de-escalation or hopefully for its end as the Afghan and Taliban peace teams have returned to the negotiation table. The resumption of talks after a long pause, is taking as a good omen that …