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AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi denounced the recent attack by ISIS (Daesh) terrorists on Nowruz ceremonies in Kabul. Qasemi sympathized with Afghan government, people and the bereaved families of the victims of the inhuman act which resulted in killing and injuring defenseless and innocent people, …

Bin Zayed told Pompeo US pullout risked Afghanistan falling into hands of ‘bearded bad guys’, Middle East Eye reports. AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Mohammed bin Zayed, Abu Dhabi’s crown prince, proposed to set up an assassination program targeting top Taliban leaders during a meeting with the top US diplomat earlier this …

AT-KABUL: The US forces and Resolute Support Mission say two American soldiers have been killed during an operation in Afghanistan on Friday. The US and NATO Resolute Support mission furthered the Americans were killed while conducting an operation on Friday, but did not provide further information about the exact location …

Media personnel in war stricken Afghanistan have observed the Journalist National Day amidst mourning losses of scores of colleagues, including Sultan Mahmood Khairkhwa killed in Khost province on previous Friday. In connection with the Journalist Day, gatherings arranged in Kabul, Jalalabad and other places, whereas the participants besides mourning losses …

AT News Report KABUL:  Chinese ambassador to Afghanistan Liu Jinsong held talks with Nasir Ahmad Andisha, Afghanistan’s deputy foreign minister, where he greeted Andisha Afghan New Year and congratulated him on being appointed as the head of the Embassy and Permanent Mission of Afghanistan to the UN Office in Geneva. …

AT News Report KABUL: Russia has asked the warring parties in Afghanistan to cease hostilities rather strive for a genuine peace to be prevailed in the country. Russia’s Foreign Minister Spokesman, Maria Zakharova in a briefing on recent development in Afghanistan on Tuesday said that they have noted a considerable …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: In fallout from a feud over U.S.-Taliban peace talks, a senior U.S. diplomat has told Afghan President Ashraf Ghani that U.S. officials will no longer deal with his national security adviser, four knowledgable sources told Reuters on Monday. The decision to end U.S. contacts with Hamdullah …

AT News Report KABUL: After Moscow peace talks—a kind of first intra-Afghan talks, where a number of Afghan political parties and influential figures met and held comprehensive talks with Taliban negotiating team to bring an end to the prolong war, the second round of talks between them is set to …

The seven Indian engineers were kidnapped by Taliban militants in the restive northern Baghlan province on May 6 last year. India has been requesting the Afghan government to secure release of the Indians. AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Ten months after being kidnapped in Afghanistan’s Baghlan province, one of the seven Indians …

AT News Reports KABUL: The National Unity Government has given 3-month ultimate to the security sectors to clear Afghanistan from illegal armed groups and invidious who are posing great threat to safety of Afghan traders and common masses. President Ashraf Ghani talked about illegal armed groups and people in a …