Afghanistan Times

AT News Report KABUL: The Taliban fighters have fired rocket-propelled grenade and small arms on Afghan-US mission convoy in the Andar district of Ghazni province, the media office of US Forces in Afghanistan, USFOR-A, covered Monday. Three Taliban fighters and one child were killed after an airstrike targeted Taliban fighters …

AT News Report KABUL: At least 102 militants have been killed and 74 others received injuries 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 …

AT News Report KABUL: Aisha Khurram has been selected as Afghanistan’s Youth Representative to the United Nations for 2019, joining a group of other young people from across the globe to act as representatives for a new generation seeking to make their voices heard at the world body. As part …

AT News Report KABUL: The Government of Russia has welcomed the conduct of the presidential election in Afghanistan on September 28 despite the tense military and political situation and the existence of terrorist threats. Fortunately, this election was accompanied by fewer casualties than the parliamentary elections of 2018, Russian Foreign …

AT News Report KABUL: Senate Speaker, Fazl Hadi Muslimyar in an angry warning tells his colleague, Mir Rahman Rahmani, parliament speaker to be polite. “All the people of Afghanistan know that you occupied speaker post through a corruption in the inter-parliamentary election! Please think of your weight and then express …

AT News Report KABUL: Sources close to the recent meeting between the US envoy for Afghan peace, Zalmay Khalilzad and Taliban representatives in Pakistan, said that the two parties discussed the resumption of negotiations. Khalilzad held nine rounds of negotiations with the Taliban since last year and they were almost …

AT News Report KABUL: A foreign diplomat has alleged that the low turnout in the September 28th presidential election would undermine legitimacy of the Afghan government. Bhadra Kumar, a former Indian ambassador to Turkey, on Sunday warned that the results of election would cause severe political and security problems in …

AT News Report KABUL: Some political parties called on Taliban to hold negotiations with the Afghan political leaders, alleging that President Ghani’s government lacks a stable stance in great national issues. They said on Sunday that nobody including Taliban trusts the government, offering an interim administration to run peace talks, …

It wasn’t long after the Twitter duel between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ spokesman, Sibghatullah Ahmadi, and the Presidential Spokesman Sediq Sediqqi when reports emerged that Ahmadi has been relieved of his post over his latest “irresponsible comments.” The former spokesman bickered with Sidiqi over the warm welcome and protocol …

AT News Report KABUL: The process of transferring all sensitive electoral materials form province to Kabul has been completed.   Aurangzeb, an Independent Election Commission member, told a press conference in Kabul that all sensitive materials, including biometric devices and result sheets, from all provinces had arrived in Kabul. However, a …