Afghanistan Times

AT News KABUL: Taliban insurgents have killed 28 government forces in the south after the besieged forces surrendered, officials said. Zelagay Ebadi, governor spokesman for Uruzgan province, where the incident happened, said Friday that the militants killed soldiers in the Gizab district. Killing of prisoners of war is considered war …

AT News KABUL: The ministry of defense says a unit of the army’s commandos was stationed in Wardak, a province some 50 kilometers west of Kabul city, where Taliban insurgents carry out attacks on the security and defense forces as well as civilians. The deployment of the commando unit in …

AT News KABUL: The Taliban and the government-appointed negotiating teams are trying to convince each other agree on their opinions to make an agenda for the main peace negotiations after two weeks of discussions. Taliban negotiators are insisting in their February peace deal with the United States to be the …

AT News KABUL: The US Special Envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad claims confidence of peace in Afghanistan. Khalilzad said Friday that his optimism to the peace in the war-torn country was based on the meetings he had held with the leaders of the government of Afghanistan and Taliban group. …

AT News KABUL: Some members of parliament blame Taliban militants for killing the people of Afghanistan under the name of peace, while their negotiators are busy in peace talks with the government representatives in Qatar. The lawmakers said in their Wednesday session that Taliban’s thought to win war was wrong. …

AT News KABUL: National Statistics Office says that including of mother’s name in the ID cards is voluntary, not compulsory.  “The name of applicant and his/her surname followed by father and mother’s name are registered in the electronic ID cards,” said head of the office, Ahmad Javid Rasouli on Wednesday. …

AT News KABUL: Many Taliban recently freed from Afghanistan prisons have rejoined the insurgency, Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation Dr. Abdullah Abdullah says, bringing a US-Taliban deal into disrepute which then undermines the goodwill gesture by the Afghan government for freeing thousands of insurgent inmates. “Honestly, I …

AT News KABUL: Peace negotiations with the Taliban will never culminate in ‘one country, two systems’, said Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation. In a conversation with “Foreign Relations Council” think tank in the U.S., Dr. Abdullah ruled out the birth of two forms of …

AT News KABUL: As Afghan government and Taliban are drawing roadmap for peace negotiations in Qatar, Afghanistan’s Ministry of Information and Culture and activists are demanding bigger media role in intra-Afghan talks. Media representatives must have a proactive role in peace negotiations in Doha, said Deputy Information and Culture Minister …

AT News KABUL: More than 81,000 Afghan refugees returned home from Iran within one last month, authorities said. Mohammad Reza Bahir, a spokesman for the ministry of refugees and repatriation said that the refugees came in via border gates in Herat. “Almost half of these refugees were forcibly deported from …