Afghanistan Times

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Afghanistan’s Permanent Representative to the U.N. Adela Raz wrote to the President of the Security Council, Germany, to report on the most recent violations of the Afghan territory by Pakistan’s military forces and said the incursion represents a reiteration of violations as Kabul had previously expressed …

AT News KABUL: A Taliban infiltrator went on a shooting rampage and killed four members of the Uprising Forces in Tarinkot, the provincial capital city of Uruzgan province, officials said. The incident took place on Sunday morning at 04:00am local time at the uprising forces checkpoint in the north of …

AT News KABUL: The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission claims that the recent increased insecurity has caused the killing of averagely 16 civilians each day across the country. “Our assessments indicate that averagely 16 people who have no role in the clashes are killed every day around the country. 630 …

 ‘Afghan government and the Taliban need to reach an agreement to resolve controversies related to the Afghan peace bid’ AT News KABUL: The reconciliation council calls on the government and Taliban to “peacefully resolve the problems over prisoner swap” as Ghani administration still insists on keeping 600 Taliban prisoners suspected …

AT News KABUL: The US Envoy for Afghanistan Peace, Zalmay Khalilzad has said that the Islamic Republic of Iran had not done as it was expected to help the peace process of Afghanistan. “Iran was expected to cooperate more with the Afghan peace process and the intra-Afghan talks, but it …

“ISI agents in the system must be confronted,” ex-NDS head Rahmatullah Nabil says. “Discrimination, corruption and injustice have reached their peak.” AT News KABUL: Former spy chief, Rahmatullah Nabil criticized disagreements between President Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah, the chairman of High Council for National Reconciliation, saying that discrimination, corruption and …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: In a meeting between the special envoy of the Russian President for Afghanistan affairs Zamir Kabulov and Iran’s ambassador to Russia Kazem Jalali the two sides discussed regional and Afghanistan affairs. The two officials hold talks on the ongoing issues in Afghanistan and the vitality of …

AT News KABUL: At least four commanders of the Taliban along with their 14 comrades were killed in fight with the Afghan security forces in southern Khost province, military officials said on Saturday. The ministry of defense said in a statement on Saturday that the clash occurred after the militants …

AT News KABUL: Two people were killed and two others wounded after a verbal dispute turned into gun shooting in Kabul city, a security source confirmed. The source, who was talking on condition of anonymity, said that some vagabonds were holding a party with women dancing on 15th of July …

AT News KABUL: The Afghan security forces have killed at least 42 Taliban insurgents during latest military stings in different provinces across the country. In addition to that, 31 others were wounded during these crackdowns, security officials said on Saturday. A group of Taliban fighters planning to attack the national …