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AT News KABUL: Presence of female security forces in Afghanistan military has increased by 16 percent, according to the Special Inspector for Afghanistan Reconstruction. SIGAR said in a statement on Sunday that the total number of the female security personnel would surpass 5,260 by January 26th. “Some 3, 635 female …

AT News KABUL: As part of the EU’s global coronavirus response, an EU Humanitarian Air Bridge flight will depart on 15 June from Maastricht, Netherlands to Kabul, Afghanistan. The flight will deliver 100 tonnes of life-saving materials to supply EU-funded humanitarian partners. The flight is fully EU funded and is …

AT News KABUL: Abdullah Abdullah’s Cabinet picks are set to be sent to President Ghani for confirmation, based on an agreement between him and the president which sets the motion for a second power sharing government. In meeting with parliament members on Sunday, Chairman of High Council for Reconciliation Dr. …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Tajik border guards have warded off an attempt by Afghan drug traffickers to smuggle a large amount of narcotic drug into Tajikistan, according to the public relations center of Tajikistan’s State Committee for National Security (SCNS). According to the Asia-Plus, Tajik border guard on a routine …

AT News KABUL: The government and Taliban agreed to release each other’s prisoners after the insurgents signed a peace deal with the United States late February. The government was asked to release 5,000 Taliban prisoners, while the militants vowed to free 1,000 government servants mostly security forces kept in the …

AT News KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai strongly condemned terrorist attack on a religious scholar Maulavi Ainullah Khaliani. Khaliani was killed in a bombing Saturday in the Chah Aab district of Takhar province in the northeast. In statement, Karzai called the target killings especially killing of clerics as a clear …

AT News KABUL: Taliban rebels ambushed a passenger vehicle in Kunduz on Sunday, dragging down its passengers and killing two people in an assault that has seen a rise in the past month. “A vehicle en route from Badakhshan to Kabul was stopped by Taliban rebels in Khanabad highway and …

By Farhad Naibkhel KABUL: The Taliban group is blamed for breaching the ceasefire and reduction in violence commitments made as part of peace efforts as violence spirals out of control and the Afghan government says it could jeopardize the fragile peace process. The Taliban, at some point, had tried to …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan’s response to summoning of its ambassador by Iranian officials in reaction to recent protests has been very cautious. Earlier this week, Iranian authorities summoned Afghan ambassador to Tehran, Abdul Ghafor Liwal, to brief about protests in Afghanistan in reaction to an incident in which a police …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan’s much-awaited peace talks envisaged between the government and the militant Taliban are set to be hosted by Qatar in two weeks, according to sources. The first in a litany of negotiations between Kabul and militants will take place in Doha, both the government and Taliban have …