Afghanistan Times

AT News Report KABUL: Local officials in northern Kunduz province said Tuesday that over 16 public uprising forces after Taliban insurgents attacked their security check points in Ali Abad district of the province. Provincial Police Chief, Abdul Rashid Basheer has confirmed the incident, saying that the clashes took place in …

AT News Report KABUL: The Independent Election Commission has confirmed the breaking lockers of the National Tally Center’s hallway, but emphasized that the lockers of the biometric data room have remained untouched. The Stability and Partnership electoral team, led by Chief Executive Abduallah Abdullah has earlier claimed that some people …

AT News Report KABUL: US Defense Secretary, Mark Esper has said that aggressive military campaign against the Taliban group will continue until peace to be prevailed in Afghanistan through a negotiated political settlement while protecting achievements of the past 18 years.  Esper said this in a press conference on Monday …

AT News Report KABUL: The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission says that 6,500 civilians were killed and injured in the past six months of Afghan year (March to September) in Afghanistan. The commission on Monday released its new report, which says that 1,611 people were killed and 4,876 more wounded …

AT News Report KABUL: The National Environment Protection Bureau (NEPB) has accused the government of weak management regarding most important issues of climate changes in Afghanistan, saying that the region has been seriously affected. “Because of weak management of the government, the developed countries have not invested in the climate …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The U.S. is already cutting down the number of troops it has stationed in Afghanistan, according to the commanding officer of NATO’s Resolute Support Mission and US Forces – Afghanistan. Army Gen. Austin Miller said Monday approximately 2,000 U.S. troops had left Afghanistan in the past …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Pakistan has suggested the Taliban to agree on an unannounced ceasefire, days after a high-level delegation of the militant group met the country’s foreign minister as part of a push to revive the Afghan peace process, according to a media report on Monday. The US too …

AT News Report KABUL: Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Ambassador, Zalmay Khalilzad and an interagency team, whose talks with Taliban halted despite nine round of discussions, is traveling to Belgium, France, and Russia and meet with the its leaderships on ending Afghanistan’s war. In Brussels and Paris, ambassador Khalilzad will …

AT News Report KABUL: Addressing a ceremony organized to commemorate the first death anniversary of General Abdul Razeq, the Interior Minister, Massoud Andarabi on Monday has said the Taliban leaders have no control on their fighters as the group’s leadership have been scattered in Qatar and Quetta. “Their provincial leaders …

AT News Report KABUL: Chief Executive of the National Unity Government, and one of presidential election, Abdullah Abdullah has held a meeting with US visiting Congressional team to Kabul, headed by the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, where he said that the Afghan people are …