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AT News KABUL: At least 21 Taliban insurgents have been killed and seven others were wounded during latest crackdowns conducted by the Afghan security forces in different provinces in the last 24 hours, defense ministry said on Saturday. Taliban planned to attack over Afghan security checkpoints in Zherai district of …

AT News KABUL: The CIA’s Afghan Death Squads is an article published in “The Intercept”. Its writer Andrew Quilty, concluded a research on the CIA backed Afghan unit and its American partners’ operations that are sometimes directed at health clinics, madrassa dormitories, or civilian homes, resulting in killings of civilians …

The US has reduced the number of its troops in Afghanistan to 2,500. This is as part of outgoing U.S. President, Donald Trump’s plan as to what he describes, “Ending the endless war”. The plan has been functionalized despite a congressional prohibition of the move and rising levels of violence …

Kabul, and Islamabad need to focus on shared infrastructures, such as building roads like the Peshawar-Kabul and Quetta-Kandahar motorways, and railways, like connections between South Asia and Central Asia which would go through Afghanistan and Pakistan benefiting the whole region, and making Afghanistan a key connectivity hub. By Farhad Naibkhel …

The government has recently decided to be serious in maintaining and reconstructing some historical sites and monuments which is good news since the rich culture of Afghanistan had been almost ignored due to war pressures and other problems the government and people of Afghanistan are confronting. The ministry of information …

AT News KABUL: Peace talks between the Afghan and Taliban negotiators are probably on hold at the moment as both sides hang on for the U.S. President-elect, Joe Biden’s policy towards Afghanistan, sources privy to the talks said. Fariddon Khwazon, a spokesman for the high council for national reconciliation confirmed …

AT News KABUL: The Taliban fighters have set fire to six fuel tanker trucks and taken seven people with them in the northern Baghlan province, a security source said on Friday. The source, who was talking on condition of anonymity, said that the incident occurred on the Kabul-Baghlan highway in …

Media advocating agency expressed its shock on the incident, asking the government to undertake a thorough investigation so the perpetrators are brought to the book   AT News KABUL: Dozens of worshipers have attacked a local radio station in Kunduz province following a proactive sermon given by an Imam of …

AT News KABUL: At least 118 Taliban insurgents have been killed, 36 wounded and another 10 were detained in reciprocal operation of the Afghan National Army members in the past 24 hours, the Afghan Defense Ministry said on Friday. They were killed and arrested in Kunar, Ghazni, Urzgan, Kunduz, Kandahar …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 104 new cases of coronavirus and eight fatalities in the last 24 hours, said the Ministry of Public Health on Friday. The new infections reported out of 1,668 suspected samples tested during this time.    Eight patients have lost their lives to the virus and …