Afghanistan Times

AT News KABUL: Fresh demands made by the United States have caused the peace deal with Taliban delayed, a Taliban spokesman said. Suhail Shahin, spokesman for militants’ political office in Qatar, said Saturday that they had indicated agreement to pave the ground for signing peace deal with the United States, …

AT News KABUL: An old man, who sees education as the only weapon to get the country rid of current miseries, has donated 20 hectares of land to a girls’ school in northern Sar-e-Pull province. His patriotic move has been appreciated by the ministry of education. Faizullah, a tribal elder …

AT News KABUL: Around 1,748 people in western Herat province has attempted to suicide in which women making its 80 percent – while 27 have lost their lives in the past year, health officials said on Saturday. Head of the provincial local hospital, Arif Jalali said, “Most of them have …

AT News KABUL: The US special envoy leading negotiations with the Taliban met President Ashraf Ghani in Kabul on Saturday, an official said, amid a push to reach an accord with the insurgents. US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad pointed to the status of quo of his meetings …

AT News KABUL: A new controversy has just arisen to President Ghani’s chagrin in the wake of patronage appointments and reshuffles in high-profile government positions with the incumbent president being accused of ethnic favoritism and his chief executive Abdullah ratcheting up a public feud with him over the contentious issue. …

AT News KABUL: Uncertainties dwarfing the high-stakes presidential elections will soon come to an end according to the latest pompous promises by the electoral complaints commission which vowed Saturday to resolve the long drawn-out disputes and wipe the slate clean about the controversial ballots and recounts as soon as this …

AT News KABUL: At least 34 Taliban militants have been killed and 11 others wounded in multiple extensive military crackdowns carried out by the Afghan security forces across the country in the past 24 hours, security officials said Saturday. Ministry of Defense in a statement said the Afghan National Army …

Even as the United States pursues a deal with the Taliban, violence continues to rage in Afghanistan and the warring parties take pride in flexing military muscles while victimizing Afghans. According to Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) figures, enemy-initiated attacks in Afghanistan during the fourth quarter of 2019 …

AT News KABUL: A US airstrike in Dasht-e-Archi district of the northern Kunduz province have killed at least five civilians. Residents of the district on Friday said that an airstrike conducted by the US forces has killed five civilians, including a commander of Hezb-e-Islami – a political party, led by …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Militant attacks against American troops and other targets in Afghanistan hit a record high in the final months of last year, an US federal watchdog said Friday. In a report, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) said the rebels conducted more than 8,200 attacks …