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AT Monitoring News-KABUL: At least five members of a single family, including woman, and a child have been killed and three others received injures in an airstrike in Tirinkot, the provincial capital of Uruzgan province, health sources and local officials said on Sunday. Ezzatullah, an inhabitant of the area, told …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Afghan security forces have started a large-scale clearance operation against militants to re-take the Nawa district of Helmand province after Taliban militants took control of the area nine months ago, local officials said on Saturday. Omar Zowak, the provincial governor’s spokesperson said, the offensive kicked off …

AT-KABUL: The US forces have killed Abu Sayed, the emir of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria-Khorasan province (ISIS-K), in a strike in July 11 on the group’s headquarters in Kunar province of Afghanistan. A statement issued here by the Pentagon Spokesperson, Dana W. White said that the US strike …

AT-KABUL: Professor Hamidullah Farooqi, Kabul University’s Chancellor and Advisor Minister on Higher Education to President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, briefed Minister of Economy, Abdul Sattar Murad, on future plans for Kabul University at the Minister of Economy. Prof. Farooqi informed the Economy Minister about the upcoming projects for Kabul University. These areas include …

The terrorist group of the Islamic State (IS), which is popular with its Arabic acronym Daesh burst on the international scene in 2014, when the group captured large swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq. The group soon became notorious and deadly as loyalists to the Daesh started massive killing, …

AT-KABUL: At least 77 militants have been killed and 27 others wounded in a 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 Police …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: NATO and Russia shared a common interest in Afghanistan, which was free, safe and democratic Afghanistan, said NATO Secretary General Gen. Jens Stoltenberg. Briefing newsmen after the NATO-Russian Council meeting at Brussels, he said that the two sides discussed security situation in Afghanistan. A stable Afghanistan was …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Afghan security forces have inflicted heavy casualties to the Taliban insurgents, announcing clearing of 17 villages of the Shah Joy district of southern Zabul province from the presence of militants, officials said. The villages were cleared in the district during a clearing operation codenamed “Khalid”, said …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Continual interference into internal affairs of Afghanistan could have negative consequences that will take Pakistan toward major crisis, said a key political figure in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa tribal region of Pakistan. Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) Chief, Mahmood Khan Achakzai has warned Islamabad regarding the persistent interference …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Police Chief of southern Kandahar province has said that leaders of the National Unity Government (NUG) have manipulated the entire country for the sake of their individual interests. Gen. Abdul Razzeq said this at a gathering held in Kandahar city, the provincial capital, in which government officials, …