AT News KABUL: The timeline of a weeklong partial ceasefire agreement between US, Afghan forces and Taliban ended up at 12:00am (local time) of Friday night. The weeklong reduction in violence will be followed with a peace deal to be signed between Washington and Taliban in Qatar, rolling out direct …
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AT News KABUL: Friday coincides with Afghanistan’s Armed Forces Day, a day to gratify the country’s brave soldiers who fight in the frontlines of the war against insurgency inexorably. But disabled soldiers are let down by a government’s neglect to their situation. A handful of soldiers who lost a limb …
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AT News KABUL: The secretary general of NATO has expressed optimistic about the Afghan peace process but believes the road to peace will be long and hard. Speaking in a press conference following a North Atlantic meeting which held in Brussels at Turkey’s request for Article 4 constitutions on the …
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AT News KABUL: The world watches in awe as Afghanistan is hewing closer to an end to violence with an outstanding euphoria surrounding a seven-day ‘reduction in violence’ between the US and the Taliban that raised hopes over prospects of peace. After years of violence, Afghanistan is in the turning …
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AT News KABUL: Health officials said Friday that 10 recent suspicious cases of coronavirus were tested negative after diagnosing in the laboratory. Of 10 cases, five of them have been registered in capital Kabul, one in northern Baghlan and three cases in western Herat provinces. The blood symptoms of the …
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AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: At least 33 Turkish soldiers were killed in Syria’s Idlib province in an aerial attack by Russian-backed Syrian regime forces, Turkish officials said, raising the specter of full-blown conflict. Thirty-five soldiers were injured in the attack and have been evacuated to hospitals in Turkey, according to …
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AT News KABUL: In the midst of a weeklong reduction in violence, several provinces were hit by isolated insurgent attacks with military authorities saying four civilians and one Afghan soldier were killed as a result. The Afghan government said at least 19 security forces have been killed and 35 others …
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Rafiullah anwari KABUL: A President Ghani’s running mate Amrullah Saleh’s decision to sue nearly 40 people for ranting and posting malicious comments on social media has set off a storm of criticism that it is an appalling violation of the right to freedom of speech and social media activities. Civil …
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AT News KABUL: The Presidential Palace on Wednesday has confirmed that ceremony to swear in Ashraf Ghani as president scheduled for Thursday, has been delayed—giving an opportunity for the Afghan leaders to form a comprehensive government to end the controversial post-election crisis. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan has …
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AT News KABUL: Police seized an arsenal from a moving truck in a border city in Nangarhar province, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday, linking the truck loaded with weapons to the Taliban. Anticrime police have arrested three suspects in Torkham town of Nangarhar as they were trying to smuggle a …
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