Afghanistan Times

AT News KABUL: At least five police officers were killed by a roadside bomb in the southwestern province of Nimroz, provincial officials confirmed.a The incident took place on Tuesday in the Kang district, Bahram Haqmal, a provincial official said. Two more officers were injured in this attack that targeted their …

AT News KABUL: Abdulhai Zazi, the district governor for Zazai Maidan of Khost province was killed in an Ambush in southeastern Logar province. The Media and Information Center of Khost said that district governor Abdulhai Zazai was on his way to Kabul while become under an ambush of some gunmen …

AT News KABUL: The community of Sikhs and Hindus shrank to its lowest in Ghazni province as the last group of Sikhs and Hindus escaped the insecurity after centuries of living there. Taliban threat and insecurity have forced the remainders of the long-persecuted community of Sikhs and Hindus to leave …

AT News KABUL: The Afghan security forces have killed at least 25 Taliban militants in a counterattack after the militants attacked their checkpoints in Helmand and Nimroz provinces. Another nine Taliban fighters were wounded in the attack. Taliban planned to attack Afghan forces outposts in Helmand and Nimroz province, where …

AT News KABUL: A member of Taliban intimate, who was recently released by the Afghan government as part of peace talks, was killed in an airstrike in the central province of Wardak province on Tuesday. Three other Taliban fighters were also killed in the operation, according to the military official …

AT News KABUL: As uptick in Taliban attacks is threatening the prospects of lasting peace in the country, the disabled people in Kunduz province are demanding both the Afghan government and the Taliban to negotiate a peaceful settlement and end the war. Dozens of disabled people are seen embroidering on …

Spiraling status quo of the Afghan conflict has overshadowed the negotiations among the Afghan and Taliban peace delegations, working on a new formula to end the war which is continuing for nearly 20 years with no end in sight thus far. With the peace process going on the air, the …

AT News KABUL: At least 33 drug runners were found guilty to drug trafficking and sentenced to several years of jail term. These cases were executed in the past one week. A statement issued by the Courts of Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) said that three drug traffickers sentenced to …

AT News KABUL: Delegates of the Afghan government and the Taliban negotiating a political settlement to end Afghanistan’s war have again failed to clinch a deal after the stalled talks restarted in Qatar. Both sides acknowledge that the agreement was only to continue talks to resolve differences and the delegates …

AT News KABUL: Vice President, Mohammad Sarwar Danesh called on the national statistics office to be impartial in providing information and not to be under any political pressures. He warned that nothing would be trustable and reliable if the statistics jobs are politically meddled. “We will face problems in making …