Afghanistan Times

3rd round of Trilateral Vice Foreign Ministers’ Strategic Dialogue also agrees to cooperate in ongoing Afghan peace process AT News KABUL: The 3rd round China-Afghanistan-Pakistan Trilateral Vice Foreign Ministers’ Strategic Dialogue was held via video link. Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Luo Zhaohui, Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister Mirwais Nab and Pakistan’s …

AT News KABUL: Residents of Ghazni province are worried about the possible fall of the area to Taliban since the situation is worsening day by day. The militants took control of provincial capital three years ago and now the resident fear it could happen once again. Ghazni residents said Tuesday …

AT News KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani warns that continuing violence by Taliban could damage a national and regional consensus on the peace. “These moves by Taliban will damage the national consensus,” Ghani addressed a grand meeting that hosts representatives from 20 neighboring and regional countries, the United States and the …

AT News KABUL: Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb, lecturer of the al-Azhar Islamic University called the Taliban’s ongoing war in Afghanistan as “haram” (forbidden), praising Afghan forces for being in the right direction of defending their homeland and people. Tayyeb wrote these words on Twitter on Tuesday, in which he called the …

AT News KABUL: The EurAsian Times writes in a report that more than 7,000 children have been killed since 2009 in the war in Afghanistan.It says that children in Afghanistan were in bad condition, asking the world community to pay attention to them.It called poverty, immigration, narcotics, labor children, war …

By: Sahel KABUL: Three years after the campaign ‘WHERE IS MY NAME’ – a move by women to reclaim their public identity – was launched in Afghanistan, Afghan women rights activists say they have not achieved their goal and still continue to advocate and raise awareness for this basic right …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan, China and Pakistan have discussed ways to further improve regional consensus on the Afghan peace process. The discussion was hosted by Kabul through a video conference. Spokesman for the ministry of foreign affairs, Gran Hewad told reporters on Tuesday that China and Pakistan had put weight …

By Mujeeb R. Awrang KABUL: The process of the prisoner exchange between the Afghan government and Taliban that lays out the long awaited intra-Afghan negotiations, in which the conflict sides are to discuss a ceasefire and to bring lasting peace to the country, appears again to face walls as the …

AT News KABUL: Two suicide bombers loyalists to the Daesh terrorist group, who had premeditated to attack a hospital and a media outlet in Kabul, were detained by the operatives of the National Directorate of Security, the spy agency said on Tuesday. The terrorists had been tasked to conduct attacks …

AT News KABUL: A local police commander and his three bodyguards were killed and 11 others received injuries in a car bombing in eastern Nangarhar province on Tuesday morning, provincial officials said. A suicide car bomber targeted Mir Zaman, a local commander in Central Square of Koz Kunar district, Attaullah …