Afghanistan Times

AT News Report KABUL: Taliban militants took at least 35 young men all civilians hostage in Ghazni province, local officials and residents said. The incident happened Thursday night in the Deh Hajji village of the Khwaja Omari district and the insurgents took these people after attacking the village. Residents said …

AT News Report KABUL: At least three civilians have been killed after a rocket hit their house in central province of Maidan Wardak, ministry of interior said. Nasrat Rahimi confirmed the incident, saying one civilian was also received injuries in the incident. It happened in the Narkh district of Wardak, …

AT News Report KABUL: Taliban shadow district chief for the Awba district of western Herat province along with his eight fighters were killed in a clash, official said Friday.  Police Chief Aminullah Amarkhel told Pajhwok Afghan News the Taliban launched a group attack on Awba district centre on Thursday night …

AT News Report KABUL: Ghazni residents on Friday expressed anger over security deterioration in their province, asking for a concrete effort to improve security situation. According to them, the province would be fail again if steps have not taken to improve security. Shah Mohammad, the resident of Ghazni province, said …

The US-Taliban talks officially came to a halt in early September when the US President Donald Trump stunned the world when he suddenly declared the Afghan negotiations with the Taliban “dead”.  Since the peace talks arrived at a stop, the preparations for the presidential election had been at full throttle …

Worsening security in Afghanistan in past four years has led to more than 14,000 violations against children, UN says. AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Worsening security across Afghanistan has led to 14,000 violations against children in the past four years, including nearly 3,500 killed and 9,000 injured, a UN report said. …

AT News Report KABUL: The army freed 13 civilians held in a Taliban jail during an operation in the southern province of Helmand, the ministry of defense said. The ministry said Friday in a statement that the operation was launched Thursday night in the Din Mohammad village of the Nahr-e-Seraj …

AT News Report KABUL: The Wolesi Jirga while reacting to Meshrano Jirga Chairman’s remarks during the general session on Wednesday condemned the use of disrespecting and irresponsible words and said the lower house denounced such comments. This comes as earlier, the IEC head HawaAlamNuristani during a press conference had said …

AT News Report KABUL: Presidential Candidate, Abdullah Abdullah said on Wednesday that the non-biometric votes cast after the official voting time are invalid. The presidential election began at 07:00am on Saturday and ended at 05:00pm on the same day. Abdullah said that the voters’ number should be counted only based …

AT News Report KABUL: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, one of presidential candidates rejects ideas about election legitimacy despite low turnout, saying that people’s low participation in the Saturday’s contest overshadows its legitimacy. Hekmatyar who was speaking about the election issues on Wednesday, accused the “ruling team”” (Ghani and Abdullah’s teams) of fraud, …