Afghanistan Times

AT News KABUL: The ministry of public health has registered 542 new cases of Corona virus that gets the total number of people infected with the virus to 9,216 across the country. “We registered 542 new cases during the past 24 hours across the country. With the new cases, the …

AT News KABUL: In his meeting with the US Special Envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad, the head of the Taliban Qatar Based Political Office; Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar has warned that “any further” delay in the implementation of the US-Taliban peace deal would “harm” the fragile Afghan peace process. …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan National Security Council said that at least 25 civilians were killed and nearly 100 others wounded by the Taliban during one last week of the holy month of Ramadan. According to the security officials, the militants killed over 17 civilians at the first week of Ramadan …

AT News KABUL: A local official in northern Jawzjan said that at least seven civilians, including women and children were killed in an airstrike conducted by the Afghan security forces in Muridan district of the province. The official, who wished to go unnamed, said that the victims included four children, …

AT News KABUL: A number of the Taliban militants have infected by the pandemic covid-19 in the western Herat province, where the group has been making hurdles against the medical implementations to combat the coronavirus since the virus spread widely and turned the province as epicenter of the epidemic. Based …

AT News KABUL: China delivered another batch of food assistance to Afghanistan on Thursday to help the needy people celebrate Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the fasting month Ramadan. This is the fourth batch of assistance China has provided to Afghanistan since the outbreak of COVID-19 in February. …

By Wang Yu, Chinese Ambassador to Afghanistan The COVID-19 pandemic has swept across the world with unprecedented ferocity. No country can stay out of it and keep safe alone. Nothing is better than the global public health crisis to reveal the objective reality that all human beings are bound to …

AT News KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai expressed his deep concerns over a report issued by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) that says of an increase in civilian casualties. Karzai emphasized on reduction in violence. UNAMA’s report blamed the increase of civilian casualties on Taliban, Daesh terrorist …

AT News This is not the first time that Afghanistan Times workers has come under attack. We have received threats from different groups in the past.Taliban attack the Afghanistan Times distributer, Abdul Wahed Qazizada. The incident occurred in the highly secured Afghan capital on early Monday morning, 20 May 2020.As he was distributing the …

AT News KABUL: Officials in the western province of Farah say that the Corona virus pandemic has caused increase of violence against women. Kobra Azimi, head of provincial women’s affairs department, said Wednesday that they had registered 25 cases of violence against women in last month. She called the Corona …