AT News Report-KABUL: The Afghanistan Times, leading English Newspaper in the country marked its 11th anniversary on July 22, 2017. The newspaper started publications in carnets as an eight-page newspaper in 2006, which is today in 12 pages (four in color). This paper belongs to everyone because it is a …
Read More »Karzai praises Afghan girls’ robotic team achievement
AT News Report-KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai congratulated the achievement of the Afghan girls’ robotic team in a match held in the United States. “With great happiness, I learned that the Afghan girls’ robotic team who participated in an international robot contest in the United States of America, gained the …
Read More »MSF reopens small clinic since 2015 deadly hospital airstrike
AT News Report-KABUL: The Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) reopened a small health clinic in the northern Kunduz province, a step to maintain activities in Afghanistan after a delay following the bloody US airstrike that targeted a hospital in the Kunduz city, the provincial capital that killed and wounded scores of …
Read More »56 insurgents killed in raids
AT News Report-KABUL: At least 56 militants were killed and 30 others were wounded in different crackdowns carried out by the Afghan security forces within past 24 hours. In a press release issued here, the Ministry of Defense (MoD), said that Afghan National Army (ANA) in collaboration with Afghan National …
Read More »11 local policemen killed, 20 missing in Badakhshan
AT News Report-KABUL: At least 11 local policemen were killed and 20 others went missing in northern Badakhshan province on Friday, said officials. “Taliban attacked a checkpoint in Tagab district of Badakhshan, which as result 11 local police were killed and 20 other are missing,” said provincial spokesman, Nik Mohammad …
Read More »16 policemen killed in US airstrike
AT News Report-KABUL: At least 16 police officers were killed and two others wounded in an airstrike carried out by the US forces in southern province of Helmand, provincial officials said. “The strike was carried out on Friday afternoon in Parchaw locality of Greshk district, after they came under foreign …
Read More »Kunduz-Takhar highway closed
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The ongoing clashes between Afghan security forces and the Taliban insurgents have been resulted into closure of Kunduz-Takhar highway in Khanabad district of northern Kunduz province on Friday. According to provincial officials, Khanabad district is in brink of collapse as clashes on the move. The Khanabad distract …
Read More »Editorial: Congratulations Afghanistan Times
Afghanistan Times, the leading English Newspaper in the country is committed to serve the Afghan nation while following the principles of professionalism and journalistic ethics. Today Afghanistan Times become 12 years old—so thank you subscribers and other fans of the Times which made this possible to be in your homes …
Read More »Al-Aqsa: Palestinians killed as Jerusalem protests rage
At least two Palestinians have been killed, according to local media, and hundreds more injured amid mass protests over new Israeli security measures at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound. In the first incident, an Israeli settler killed an 18-year-old Palestinian man in the Ras al-Amud neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem, according …
Read More »United States lists Pakistan among countries providing ‘safe havens’ to terrorists
“LeT’s chief Hafiz Saeed (a UN-designated terrorist) continued to address large rallies, although in February 2017, Pakistan proscribed him under relevant provisions of Schedule Four of the Anti-Terrorism Act, thus severely restricting his freedom of movement,” it noted. The United States on Wednesday listed Pakistan among nations that provide “safe …
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