KABUL- At least five civilians were “martyred” and another 30 people including five army personnel were injured after a Taliban suicide bomber detonated his truck bomb near a military installation in southeastern Paktia province of the country, officials said. The attack took place around 8:30am in Gardiz, capital city of …
Read More »51 civilians killed on deadly Tuesday
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan was under attack on Tuesday. Taliban and their sponsors killed 51 civilians and wounded 115 including mothers and newborns, doctors and mourners at a funeral, said the nation’s National Security Council on Wednesday. “Tuesday alone, Taliban and their sponsors killed 51 civilians and wounded 115, including …
Read More »Editorial: Enemies sabotaging peace process
Either the peace efforts symbolized by the warring parties aren’t sincere or regional sponsors of proxies and terrorist outfits cannot tolerate to see a peaceful and stable Afghanistan. In a fresh bout of violence, two deadly terrorist attacks inflicted horrors that words could not do justice to. Terrorists stormed a …
Read More »Taliban erupts over resumption of Afghan offensive operations
AT News KABUL: After a longtime defensive poster of the Afghan security forces, President Ashraf Ghani has ordered the military to turn into offensive and engage into aggressive operations against the Taliban and other militant groups in Afghanistan. But the Taliban-with whom the US signed a peace deal about two …
Read More »Resumption of offensive campaign may hamper intra-Afghan talks: Kremlin
AT News KABUL: Russian government has expressed concerns over President Ghani’s order for resuming offensive against Taliban a move that “could hamper the intra-Afghan peace talks”. Ghani ordered army and police to restart attacks on terrorist groups immediately after an attack on a maternity hospital in Kabul that killed more …
Read More »Kabul hospital attack’s death toll rises to 24
AT News KABUL: The death toll of Tuesday’s attack on a maternity hospital in the Dasht-e-Barchi neighborhood, west of Kabul reached to 24, health officials said. Wahid Majroh, deputy public health minister, said Wednesday that a professional midwife was among the dead, calling the incident as attack on health sector. …
Read More »Washington condemns Tuesday’s deadly terrorist attacks
AT News KABUL: The United States has strongly condemned in the strongest terms the two horrific terrorist attacks in Afghanistan. In an unconscionable assault, gunmen seized one of Kabul’s busiest hospitals, which housed a maternity ward run by Doctors Without Borders. In the hospital, the terrorists took the lives of …
Read More »Tehran joins hands with Kabul to probe migrants mass drowning
AT News KABUL: Kabul and Tehran has agreed to jointly probe the issue of Afghan migrants drowning by the Iran border forces in the Harirod River across the borderline with Afghanistan. Spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Gran Hewad said that after discussion with the Iranian officials over the …
Read More »Afghanistan’s coronavirus cases surge past 5K
AT News KABUL: Ministry of Public Health on Wednesday said that it has recorded 259 new positive cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours, bringing the tally to 5,226 in Afghanistan. Health Ministry Deputy Spokesman Wahidullah Majroh in a press conference said that out of 619 samples, 259 were …
Read More »China hopeful for a political settlement in Afghanistan
AT News KABUL: China has reiterated its full support for a political settlement in Afghanistan amid a longstanding internal bickering and a clumsy negotiation bid to end it. China truly wants to see Afghanistan realize peace and stability at an early date, said Chinese ambassador to Kabul Wang Yu on …
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