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AT News KABUL: At least 134 civilians have been killed in the past 25 days of fatal violence conducted by the Taliban rebels around the country, security officials said Sunday. Talking to a news conference, spokesman for the ministry of interior, Tariq Aryan said another 289 people were wounded in …

AT News KABUL: At least 10 Taliban rebels were killed in an airstrike conducted by the Afghan Air Force in Shamalzoi district of southern Zabul province. The ministry of defense in a statement said Sunday that the militants were planning to attack the security checkpoints before being targeted by the …

By Wang Yu, Chinese Ambassador to Afghanistan In October, the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) was successfully held in Beijing. General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered a report on the work of the Political Bureau at the meeting. The plenary session …

KABUL- Members and supporters of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) in a large gathering, heled in north Waziristan, expressed their opposition to a new war being imposed on Afghans on both sides of the so-called Durand Line. “Pashtuns in a massive PTM gathering in Waziristan are expressing opposition to the …

Dozens of students were killed and wounded as gunmen rampaged through the camps, firing indiscriminately. AT News KABUL: The mastermind behind the deadly Kabul University attack has been arrested, First Vice President, Amrullah Saleh said on Saturday.    A group of three terrorists stormed the sprawling Kabul University campus early this …

AT News KABUL: Former jihadi leader Ismael Khan accused President Ghani’s government of not being honest in the peace efforts, saying the situation would have been much better if the government was honest. In a meeting with chairman of the reconciliation council Abdullah Abdullah in Herat province (Khan’s birthplace), Khan …

AT News KABUL: Pakistan Prime Minister, Imran Khan is to visit Kabul in the ongoing week amid stalled peace negotiations between the government and Taliban’ peace negotiation teams in Doha of Qatar. A spokesman for the ministry of foreign affairs, Gran Hewad said that Khan would discuss the Afghan peace, …

AT News KABUL: Abdullah Abdullah, chairman of the reconciliation council says that the release of Taliban prisoners was not useful for the reduction of violence and a cease fire. Speaking to women’s activists in the western province of Herat, Abdullah said Saturday that the government freed 5,000 imprisoned insurgents with …

The ongoing intra-Afghan talks and the US-Taliban deal would have significant implications for Afghanistan’s future political order. The result of the talks is currently (deadlock) and both sides apparently in no mood of compromise. This makes things more complicated and could even lead to the collapse of the process. Negotiations …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 66 new positive cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours, bringing the total tally to 43,035 cases throughout the country. The ministry of public health on Saturday said that these cases were recorded out of 170 suspicious samples during the past 24 hours …