Afghanistan Times

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: A New York man who planned to join the Taliban in Afghanistan and kill American forces was arrested at the JFK Airport, foreign media reported, quoting federal officials. Delowar Mohammed Hossain, 33, of the Bronx, is charged with attempting to provide material support for acts of …

AT News Report KABUL: The European Union delegations in Kabul and private sectors plus Afghan government officials attended a meeting on the “Advancing Afghan Trade, project that has been facilitated by International Trade Center.   The project is EU-funded initiative, launched in November 2016 which aims to strengthen the country’s …

AT News Report KABUL: Representatives of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa have reiterated support to the Afghan-owned and Afghan-led peace and reconciliation process—an effort which is underway for a political settlement to Afghan conflict through negotiations with Taliban members.   Ministers of the BRICS countries gathered in Rio …

AT News Report KABUL: Officials in the northeastern province of Takhar say that Taliban fighters attacked to police checkpoints, killing 16 officers and wounding four others. But the provincial council rejects the information, saying 32 officers were killed and seven injured in the attacks carried out in the Eshkamesh district. …

AT News Report KABUL: US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo in a phone conversation with President Ashraf Ghani, assured Afghan leader that President Donald Trump’s strategy on Afghanistan has not changed, including military withdrawal. The US Embassy to Kabul, said in a statement that the two sides also agreed on …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The top U.S. general said on Friday he was cautiously optimistic about efforts to reach a negotiated end to the nearly 18-year-old war in Afghanistan, in remarks that followed talks in Kabul with Afghanistan’s president and the top U.S. negotiator. “We’re all cautiously optimistic, in the …

AT News Report KABUL: The extremist groups have recently focused on the universities across the country as good places for propaganda and recruitment the youth, university students say. The faculties of law and theologies are considered as main brainwashing centers for the extremist groups. Basira Akhtar, a student at the …

AT News Report KABUL: The Acting Minister of Transportation on Friday launched work on the construction of Aqina-Andkhoi railway during a ceremony in the northern Faryab province.  Minister Yama Yari said the 30-kilometer railway would connect Afghan Aqina port with Andkhoi of Turkmenistan, adding the project would cost a total …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The ongoing negotiations between the US and the Taliban are a “charade” designed simply to provide the US a “face-saving way out of Afghanistan,” former CIA deputy director Michael Morell said as quoted by Axios. He also said that the Taliban are not tired of war. …

AT News Report KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai in reaction to the US President Donald Trump’s nasty statements on wiping Afghanistan off the face of the earth, said, “President Trump, We are the Pamirs! You can’t wipe out “The Roof of the World.” Moreover, he called on the Afghan to …