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AT News KABUL: People in Kunduz say they are preparing basements of their houses as the situation is deteriorating in the northern province once a secure area that borders Tajikistan. Residents say that Taliban fighters have increased attacks on the suburbs of the provincial capital. “Taliban have long had presence …

AT News KABUL: The Afghan army reported of offensives in the south and southwest of the country especially in Helmand province as a three-day cease fire declared by Taliban militants ended early Sunday. The army’s Maiwand Corps in the south, said in a statement that the operations were going on …

By Wang Yu, Chinese Ambassador to Afghanistan On April 22, at the invitation of US President Joe Biden, Chinese President Xi Jinping attended the Leaders Summit on Climate via video link and delivered an important speech entitled For Man and Nature: Building a Community of Life Together. Upon a profound …

AT News KABUL: Representatives of the Afghan and Taliban peace delegations have resumed intra-Afghan talks in Doha, the capital city of Qatar, both sides confirmed. The meeting happened after a long pause, already faded hope for a political settlement through dialogues. In a series of tweets posted simultaneously by the …

AT News KABUL: Afghan Foreign Minister Haneef Atmar has spoken with Palestinian FM Riyad al-Maliki and denounced the raging violence and aggression in Palestinian territory. FM Atmar conveyed President Ashraf Ghani’s condolences on the killing of several dozen people and expressed Afghanistan’s solidarity with Palestinian people. “We demand immediate cessation …

AT News KABUL: Deputy of the high council for national reconciliation, Enayatullah Babur Farahmand accused the government of trying to harm the “merely peace” in the northern province of Faryab. He said that the government launched “a cold war in north of Afghanistan.” “There are some bad news from Faryab …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 65 new cases of coronavirus and six deaths in the last 24 hours, the ministry of public health said Saturday. The new cases reported out of 495 suspected samples tested during the same period of time. Another 29 patients have fully recovered during this …

More than 20 people all of them civilians were killed while more than that were wounded on the first and second days of Eid festival in different areas. The incidents claimed lives of nine people in Kunduz province in the north and Kandahar in the south. The second day of …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said that the narrative being portrayed by the media of “gloom and doom” must stop and instead a more positive spin needs to be put on the country’s future. In an interview with Der Spiegel, Ghani said: “The more the media talks …

AT News KABUL: Authorities in the Afghan Ministry of Defense confirmed that the US had handed the Kandahar Airfield over to the Afghan National Army. Deputy spokesperson of the Ministry of Defense Fawad Aman in a tweet said, “The Kandahar Airfield was handed over from US forces to the Afghan …