Afghanistan Times

By Farhad Naibkhel KABUL: Taliban suicide squad attack on a housing complex used by international origination in Police District 9th of Kabul, the capital city on Monday night, left 16 residents dead and 119 others, most of them civilians and children were injured. Taliban group claimed responsibility for the attack, …

AT News Report KABUL: The first ever Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) exhibition to bolster up information technology progresses has been lunched in Kabul on Tuesday.    The exhibition was for three days in Continental Hotel that held by the Siam Event and Business Development Center and Ariana ICT in partnership with …

AT News Report KABUL: In the wake of great security tensions in the northern part of Afghanistan, the National Directorate of Security’ s operatives have arrived in Pul-e-Khumri, the capital city of northern Baghlan province, to abolish those Taliban fighters taken civilians homes as shields. NDS in a statement said …

Spending about a year negotiating with the Taliban, the US envoy for Afghanistan reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad says US has reached a peace deal in principle – pending the approval of Afghan president and his US counterpart –to pull 5,400 troops out of Afghanistan in 135 days. Concurring with Khalilzad’s interview …

AT News Report KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani called political leaders to discuss the list of a delegate scheduled to attend the intra-Afghan dialogue, one day after the US special envoy for Afghan peace, Zalmay Khalilzad met him to show the draft of an accord with Taliban and then outlined the …

AT News Report KABUL: In the wake of ongoing waves of violence lashed out by the Taliban group across Afghanistan with recent one in Kabul, the capital city, NATO top officials reaffirmed support to the Afghan security forces while endorsing the current efforts to achieve peace in the country. NATO …

AT News Report KABUL: A military and security analyst believes that Taliban militants have launched intensive attacks on some provincial capitals because they are afraid the peace deal with the United States causes their fighters to split. Ali Ahmad Jalali, lecturer at the American University of National Defense and former …

AT News Report KABUL: China believes that the Afghan issue should be resolved through political means and firmly supports the Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace and reconciliation process, Chinese Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson said on Monday. When asked to comments on reports that a US-Taliban agreement was imminent, spokesperson Geng Shuang during …

AT News Report KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai, strongly condemned blasts, airstrikes and rocket attacks in the provinces of Badakhshan, Faryab, Farah and Laghman that killed and injured civilians including women and children. Karzai called killing of people under any name, as an anti-human crime and oppressive act. He called …

AT News Report KABUL: A military and security analyst believes that Taliban militants have launched intensive attacks on some provincial capitals because they are afraid the peace deal with the United States causes their fighters to split. Ali Ahmad Jalali, lecturer at the American University of National Defense and former …