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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: At least 300 Afghan children in northern Jawzjan province have been under militant training of Islamic State (IS), which is also known as Daesh terrorist group, local officials said on Wednesday . According to reports over 80 percent of Darzab district in Jawzjan province is under the …

AT-KABUL: At least 25 fighters loyal to the Islamic State (IS), which is also known as Daesh terrorist group have been killed in the latest airstrikes carried out in eastern Nangarhar province, security officials said on Wednesday. According to the officials of the 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan army …

KABUL: Members of the Meshrano Jirga (the upper house of the parliament) said Tuesday that the new US strategy has failed to pressure Pakistan to stop support for terrorist outfits. Senators said Pakistan’s policy regarding support to extremist elements had not changed after the announcement of the US strategy on …

AT-KABUL: The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) on Tuesday blamed the local armed groups who are fighting Taliban for using children as soldiers. “Although I am aware that children are not in Afghan national security and defense forces, but unfortunately, they are used in uprising militias and local police, …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Afghanistan-China Economic and Trade Commission’s third meeting held in Beijing, in which both officials discussed greater cooperation between the two countries, the Ministry of Finance said on Tuesday. Monday’s meeting was co-chaired by Minister of Finance, Eklil Hakimi, and Gao Yan, China’s vice-minister of commerce, the …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani and a number of his ministers on Tuesday have signed more than 20 bilateral cooperation agreements with their Uzbek counterparts in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. The official visit of high-ranking Afghan delegation, comprising Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani and the National Security Adviser Mohammad …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A 30-year-old woman has lost her life after being severely beaten by her husband in the northern Takhar province. According to provincial police officials, the husband had beaten her to death for picking up 500 Afghanis from his pocket without his permission. The heart-wrenching and inhuman incident …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The German government is expected to deport dozens of Afghans asylum-seekers today (Wednesday), a British newspaper reported on Tuesday. The would-be deportees, numbering 78, include a 26-year-old who fears he will be killed on return to his conflict-torn country. In his case, Germany has been accused of …

The Afghan and US officials including some regional countries have received all time very cold shoulder from Pakistani officials in the fight against terror. Afghan officials have long been frustrated by what they see Pakistan’s reluctance to act against various terrorist groups, including the Taliban, the notorious Haqqani terrorist network, …

AT-KABUL: The Chinese Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Deng Xijun held a meeting with the National Security Adviser, Haneef Atmar at Presidential Palace, where the two sides discussed issues of mutual interests including regional political and security situations and the developments in the recent Istanbul process conference in Azerbaijan. …