Afghanistan Times

AT News Report KABUL: A five day extended sub-national immunization campaign for polio eradication kicked off on Monday, which will target over 8.5 million children under five years of age in 324 districts across the country. The campaign is launched in most of the places where limited children were reached …

This year, we count 30 years from the date of withdrawal of the Soviet troops from Afghanistan. For a generation of Russians, this our southern neighbor [Afghanistan] has been a nightmare — but today it has suddenly become one of Moscow’s main allies on the southern flank. And it remains …

AT News Report KABUL: At least 46 militants were killed and 15 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 Monday. Ministry of Defense in a statement said the Afghan National Army (ANA) …

AT News Report KABUL: A Daesh or so-called IS-K commander has been detained during operation carried out by the Afghan security forces in eastern Nangarhar province, official said on Monday. The commander was arrested during a clearance operation conducted in Bati Kot district, said a statement issued by Nanagarhar Press …

AT News Report KABUL: The Kabul Police on Monday said they have removed black films and tint from 100 vehicles and confiscated some illegal weapons during operations in different parts of Kabul city. Kabul police in joint venture with other national security forces had conducted joint operation against tented window …

By Robert Ovadia I have never seen disinformation weaponised with such venom as my time in Hong Kong. We see in social media, right around the world, people’s refusal to acknowledge basic fact if it doesn’t confirm their entrenched political bias. In Hong Kong right now, this is toxic and …

AT News Report KABUL: The ministry of interior says that 90 out of 250 members of parliament are not using weapons given by police for their protection, adding they didn’t know the source who supplied them the arms. The ministry said on Sunday that it had given 837 weapons to …

AT News Report KABUL: Electoral crisis in Afghanistan is displaying the death of democracy, the Diplomat Magazine writes in an article. The magazine said on Sunday that the September 28th presidential election and people’s participation, shows this bitter fact that democracy in this country needs an urgent reinterpretation. Diplomat said …

AT News Report KABUL: Electoral crisis in Afghanistan is displaying the death of democracy, the Diplomat Magazine writes in an article. The magazine said on Sunday that the September 28th presidential election and people’s participation, shows this bitter fact that democracy in this country needs an urgent reinterpretation. Diplomat said …

Just when the whole world was expecting an imminent peace deal between the US and the Taliban negotiators last month, the speedy momentum of the Afghan peace process perished as the US President Donald Trump announced the talks as ‘dead’, citing the perpetuating violence by the Taliban, whose attack killed …