AT-KABUL: The senior leader of the al-Qaeda terrorist network Omar Khattab was killed along with 80 fighters in a joint Afghan and international operation in Afghanistan, the intelligence agency said Tuesday. The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said in a statement that the intelligence special operatives along with the Afghan …
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AT-KABUL: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has taken a friendly and important initiative to host a major conference on Afghanistan in the nearest time, Presidential Palace said on Monday. Speaking at the press conference here in Kabul, Presidential Palace acting spokesperson, Shah Hussain Murtazawi, said during the conference meaningful discussion …
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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Ahead of the US Defense Secretary James Mattis visit to Pakistan, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Mike Pompeo has warned that Washington will launch direct action, if Pakistan fails in shunning terror safe havens in its soil. While televising a new US strategy on Afghanistan and …
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AT-KABUL: The number of people affected by the HIV/AIDS has dramatically increased in the country, the ministry of public health said, adding that more than 2,500 people are currently suffering from the deadly disease. Health officials warned Monday on the occasion of the World AIDS Day that 232 cases were …
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It is crystal fact that there is no internal misunderstanding among different Afghan ethnicities nationwide, and unity was and will remain always among us. There is no space or room for discrimination, and those who are making attempt to infiltrate this disease into normal life of the Afghan masses, is …
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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: China’s Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Deng Xijun has invited President Ashraf Ghani to next year’s summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). The envoy briefed Ghani on the China-Afghanistan-Pakistan meeting aimed at regional economic cooperation and stability, a statement from the Presidential Officer said on …
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AT-KABUL: Eleven new nominee ministers, except a female nominee, have received votes of confidence from Wolesi Jirga (Lower House) of parliament and were assigned as new cabinet ministers. “Out of 12 minister nominees 11 of them received vote of confidence from Wolesi Jirga and approved as ministers,” said speaker of …
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Last day the US military commander Gen. John Nicholson in his address to the transformational ceremony of border police force from the ministry of interior to the ministry of defense, said being a front line state in war on terror, Afghanistan’s National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) have been fighting …
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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Three would-be suicide bombers have been detained in northeast Badakhshan province, the army said on Sunday. The Afghan National Amy’s 209th Cops Shaheen in a press statement, said that the terrorists were detained with three suicide vests at a checkpoint of joint forces in Dasht-e-Och area of …
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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Sunday said that Taliban deputy shadow governor for Helmand province has been killed. Mullah Shah Wali, the Taliban shadow deputy governor for Helmand and commander the group’s special forces, the so-called “red group”, has been killed in Musa Qala district …
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