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AT News KABUL: The United Nations appealed on Thursday for a record $41 billion to provide life-saving assistance next year to 183 million people worldwide caught up in conflict and poverty, led by a tripling of its program in Afghanistan. In Afghanistan, more than 24 million people require life-saving assistance, …

AT News KABUL: The United Nations refugee agency has urged Afghanistan’s neighbors to open their borders to Afghans seeking to flee their war-torn country — even if they don’t have documentation. Afghanistan’s land borders with Pakistan and Iran are currently open “almost solely” to Afghans with the required passports and …

AT News KABUL: The World Bank Board has approved the transfer of $280 million from the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund to two aid agencies to help Afghanistan deal with the humanitarian crisis of brewing. Approximately 39 million Afghans face winter due to food shortages, and poverty is widespread throughout the …

AT News KABUL: Less Americans now trust the US military as more people continue to lose confidence mostly because of its faulty withdrawal from Afghanistan, according to a new survey published Wednesday. For the third year in a row, the Reagan Institute’s national defense survey found a declining percentage of its …

AT News KABUL: With millions in Afghanistan facing starvation as winter arrives, the World Food Programme on Thursday urged countries to put politics aside and step up support to avert a potential catastrophe. WFP is seeking $2.6 billion for its operations in Afghanistan over the coming year.  “On the ground in Afghanistan, working tirelessly …

AT News KABUL: The Taliban and United States wrapped up two days of meetings in Qatar on Tuesday, with the Taliban delegates asking U.S. officials to unfreeze Afghan state assets and remove sanctions and US officials urging them to honor their commitment for general amnesty for all Afghans. The discussions …

AT News KABUL: The United Nations said on Wednesday that a program to pay $300 million a year in cash to Afghan families with children, elderly or people with disabilities is the best way to target increasing poverty. In what the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) described as an “alarming” socio-economic …

AT News KABUL: The Taliban’s restrictions on women working could cost the Afghan economy up to $1 billion an equivalent of 5% of the country’s GDP, the United Nations Development Programme said in a new report as the Taliban seek global help to avert a deepening crisis. The UN report …

AT News KABUL: NATO foreign ministers met Wednesday to discuss the alliance’s 18-year security presence in Afghanistan, nearly 3 months after the chaotic U.S.-run troop evacuation from the country. NATO took over the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan in 2003, almost two years after a U.S.-led coalition invaded the …

AT News KABUL: Indian government is considering its options to re-staff its embassy in Afghanistan as several countries including the United Arab Emirates, Germany, Japan and the European Union are beginning to discuss the possibility of re-opening embassies in Kabul. In November, the UAE re-started operations in Kabul which would add …