Afghanistan Times

AT News KABUL: The US Special Envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad has blamed the IS-K or so called Daesh extremist group for the recent deadly attacks in capital Kabul and in the eastern Nangarhar province. “The USG has assessed ISIS-K conducted the horrific attacks on a maternity ward and …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has registered 414 new covid-19 patients in the past 24 hours—the highest number since the Afghan health ministry boosted its testing capacity to over 1,000 samples per day. The total cases have reached to 6,053 across Afghanistan, according to the Health Ministry data on Friday. The …

KABUL- At least five civilians were “martyred” and another 30 people including five army personnel were injured after a Taliban suicide bomber detonated his truck bomb near a military installation in southeastern Paktia province of the country, officials said. The attack took place around 8:30am in Gardiz, capital city of …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan was under attack on Tuesday. Taliban and their sponsors killed 51 civilians and wounded 115 including mothers and newborns, doctors and mourners at a funeral, said the nation’s National Security Council on Wednesday. “Tuesday alone, Taliban and their sponsors killed 51 civilians and wounded 115, including …

Either the peace efforts symbolized by the warring parties aren’t sincere or regional sponsors of proxies and terrorist outfits cannot tolerate to see a peaceful and stable Afghanistan. In a fresh bout of violence, two deadly terrorist attacks inflicted horrors that words could not do justice to. Terrorists stormed a …

AT News KABUL: After a longtime defensive poster of the Afghan security forces, President Ashraf Ghani has ordered the military to turn into offensive and engage into aggressive operations against the Taliban and other militant groups in Afghanistan. But the Taliban-with whom the US signed a peace deal about two …

AT News KABUL: Russian government has expressed concerns over President Ghani’s order for resuming offensive against Taliban a move that “could hamper the intra-Afghan peace talks”. Ghani ordered army and police to restart attacks on terrorist groups immediately after an attack on a maternity hospital in Kabul that killed more …

AT News KABUL: The death toll of Tuesday’s attack on a maternity hospital in the Dasht-e-Barchi neighborhood, west of Kabul reached to 24, health officials said. Wahid Majroh, deputy public health minister, said Wednesday that a professional midwife was among the dead, calling the incident as attack on health sector. …

AT News KABUL: The United States has strongly condemned in the strongest terms the two horrific terrorist attacks in Afghanistan. In an unconscionable assault, gunmen seized one of Kabul’s busiest hospitals, which housed a maternity ward run by Doctors Without Borders. In the hospital, the terrorists took the lives of …

AT News KABUL: Kabul and Tehran has agreed to jointly probe the issue of Afghan migrants drowning by the Iran border forces in the Harirod River across the borderline with Afghanistan. Spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Gran Hewad said that after discussion with the Iranian officials over the …