AT News KABUL: At least five members of a family, including a woman and four children, have lost their lives in a mortar shelling in Shirzad district of eastern Nangarhar province, a source said Saturday. Talking on condition of anonymity, an official said that the mortar targeted a house of …
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A huge car bombing rattled eastern Logar province on Friday evening during Iftar –110 others received injuries with high school pupils among the casualties AT News KABUL: A huge car bomb blast killed at least 24 people and wounded dozens others in eastern Logar province. A car packed with explosives …
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AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Taliban fighters have protected western military bases in Afghanistan from attacks by rival, or rogue Islamist groups for over a year under a secret annex to a pact for the withdrawal of all U.S. forces by May 1, three Western officials with knowledge of the agreement …
Read More »AT News KABUL: An army base in Ghazni province fell to Taliban fighters, provincial officials confirm. Abdul Jame Jame, member of provincial council said Saturday that the militants stormed the army base at the outskirts of provincial capital of the same name late Friday and managed to take its control. …
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AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Senior Afghan and Iranian officials signed the second agreement on border cooperation after the end of a five-hour meeting. The agreement was signed by the Deputy Governor General for economic affairs of southeastern Iranian province of Sistan and Baluchestan, Mandana Zangeneh, and the Deputy Governor of …
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AT News KABUL: The National Examination Authority of Afghanistan (NEXA) on Wednesday announced the beginning of the university entrance exam or so called Conquer. A spokesman for the examination authority, Dost Mohammad Faizi said that entrance exams would be conducted in three rounds. “The first round will cover 25 provinces, …
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AT News KABUL: The Ministry of Public Health on Wednesday said it has recorded another 206 new cases of coronavirus and seven patients have lost their lives to the virus in the past 24 hours. According to the ministry, another 180 patients have fully recovered in the same period of …
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Ambassador Khalilzad says aid to Afghanistan could be cut if women’s rights aren’t upheld AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: US Special Envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on US policy in Afghanistan where lawmakers questioned him about how Afghan women will be protected if …
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AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Pakistan started new efforts to convince the Taliban for rejoining the peace process otherwise the Taliban may face some tough actions from Pakistan. Hamid Mir, a Pakistani journalist in his new article inscribed that top Pakistani security officials have approached Afghan Taliban leadership in Doha and …
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No more militants will free form Afghan jails – a key Taliban commander was killed in Kandahar amplifying a clear message that Afghanistan is not home for the militant groups, says NDS head Zia Saraj AT News KABUL: The Afghan government has kicked off negotiations with at least 13 countries …
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