Afghanistan Times

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The United States is looking to leave roughly 4,000 to 5,000 troops in Afghanistan by November.  The US President Donald Trump in an interview broadcast on Monday night said that by November Election Day troop levels in Afghanistan will be down to between 4,000 and 5,000. …

AT News KABUL: Local officials in northern Takhar said that three civilians, who stood against Taliban’s alleged sexual assault on a teenage girl, were killed by the Taliban in Khwajaghar district of the province. District Police Chief, Mohammad Ishaq said the incident happened after some residents of Dowbandi, Chichaka and …

AT News KABUL: The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had held a video meeting with Taliban negotiators lead by Mullah Baradar the group’s deputy leader and head of Qatar Political Office, in which they discussed the start of the Intra-Afghan negotiations. Taliban Qatar Office Spokesman, Suhail Shaheen said the …

“The leadership of the government has made a very shameful effort to promote populism and abnormality of political behavior in the form of disgrace, bigotry, and weakening of values and institutions.” AT News KABUL: Former spy-chief Rahmatullah Nabil has lambasted the Afghan government for playing a very superficial and marginal …

AT News KABUL: A military official in eastern Nangarhar province said that 338 prisoners managed to escape from the prisoner after the Daesh insurgents staged a complex attack on provincial jail. The official, who was talking on condition of anonymity, said that the attackers didn’t know Pashto and Dari languages …

Mujeeb R. Awrang KABUL: The Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had engaged in telephonic conversations with Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi and Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan – the country which is blamed for giving safe havens to the militants that killing and maiming the Afghans. The details of …

The lagging unresolved issues in the peace process have facilitated a conducive environment for terrorist groups – especially Daesh – to solidify their footprints and show that they are still capable of wreaking havoc even if there’s a reconciliation deal among the Afghan government and the Taliban. This means the …

AT News KABUL: The IS-K or so called Daesh extremist group has warned the private sectors, companies, markets and residential houses to remove their security cameras in eastern Nangarhar province. The group said that if any private company and person cooperated with the government to picture militants’ activities, they would …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan reported no coronavirus deaths on Tuesday, the first time since the infection started in the country more than five months. Only 36 positive cases were registered in the last 24 hours, according to the health ministry. 187 suspected samples were tested during this period, in which …

29 people killed, over 50 wounded Daesh complex attack led to a mass jailbreak as hundreds of imprisoned terrorists escaped By Farhad Naibkhel KABUL: At least 29 people were killed after affiliates of the Islamic State, also known as Daesh extremist group, carried a major attack on a large prison …