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AT News KABUL: The Taliban insurgents killed an elder and abducted his son in Dasht-e-Qala district of northern Takhar province, local officials said, highlighting the group’s cruel and violent conduct with the people of Afghanistan who expect a possible peace deal with them in the future to end the longest …

AT News KABUL: The Afghan security forces fended off Taliban attack in southern Zabul province, killing their 16 fighters, officials said on Wednesday. A number of Taliban fighters had planned to attack a checkpoint of the Afghan National Security and Defense Forces in Mizan district on Tuesday night, Deputy Spokesman …

AT News KABUL: The ministry of public health said that a new round of polio vaccination campaign would begin in the near future to tackle the challenges of polio disease in Afghanistan. The campaign in charge, Mirwais Bakhshi said the vaccination process would be implemented in Badakhshan, Kabul, Kapisa, Baghlan, …

It’s without a doubt that the coronavirus pandemic’s fallout has put a big dent on world economies, as well as trade and transit between countries, while Afghanistan has been no exception. However, it seems that after flattening the curve and going past the peak of cases, Afghanistan is gradually going …

AT News KABUL: At least eight drug runners have been sentenced to years behind bars after being found guilty of drug trafficking, the Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) said on Tuesday. The prosecution made in the past one week. According to CJTF, three drug traffickers were sentenced to five years’ …

AT News KABUL: 16 patients have lost their lives battling the coronavirus in the last 24 hours, Afghan health officials said on Monday. In total, 1,344 patients lost lives since the virus outbreak started in the country nearly six months ago. According to health officials, 107 new cases were registered …

AT News KABUL: The first ever face to face meeting between the government and Taliban militants called as the intra-Afghan negotiations is expected to be held on August 16, the state-run RTA broadcaster reported on Monday. The report said that the meeting would be held in Doha, the capital of …

AT News KABUL: Hundreds of Hindus and Sikhs have recently fled their homes in Ghazni province due to insecurity. Ghazni is one of areas home to thousands of the Hindu and Sikh religious minority along with the capital Kabul, Nangarhar, Khost, Parwan and Baghlan provinces. Most of Sikhs have been …

AT News KABUL: Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum, former vice president says that Afghan soil is not limited to the Durand Line, but it expands to Pakistani capital city of Islamabad. The comments come after Pakistani military targeted Spin Boldak, a border city in Kandahar province in the south close to …

AT News KABUL: The US Chargé d’ Affairs Ross Wilson said that the US supported a democratic, sovereign and united Afghanistan in peace with “itself and its neighbors”. “The intra-Afghan negotiations should and will be Afghan owned and Afghan led,” Wilson said, following the three days consultative Loya Jirga’s decision …