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By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The Kohistan district of Northern Faryab province and the Tayware district of western Ghor province fell to Taliban after hours of clashes on Sunday morning, officials said. “Kohistan district fall to Taliban, after Afghan local police tactically retreated,” said Faryab Governor Spokesman Jawid Bedar. He said that …

AT-KABUL: Taliban insurgents killed seven of 70 passengers they had earlier abducted along the Kandahar-Uruzgan highway, said officials. “At least 70 civilians were abducted by Taliban in series of attack in Kandahar-Urzgan highway in the past four days,” said Kandahar Governor Spokesman Samim Khpolwak. He said that seven out of …

AT-KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai reacted for the killing of the security forces in the recent incidents in the provinces of Helmand and Badakhshan. “Dear country-fellows! My frequent stance and opposition against the air bombardments in our soil were that only and only Afghan people suffer from these bombardments that …

AT-KABUL: At least 14 passengers died and 26 others wounded, after a 304 Mercedes Benz bus overturned in the northern province of Baghlan. “A 304 bus overturned in Kilagai area of Doshi district in Baghlan today at around 11:20am, which as result 14 passengers died and 26 others wounded,” said …

AT-KABUL: At least 56 militants were killed and 30 others wounded in different crackdowns within past 24 hours. In a press release issued here, Ministry of Defense, (MoD) said that Afghan National Army (ANA) in collaboration with Afghan National Police (ANP) and National Directorate of Security (NDS) personal has conducted …

AT-KABUL: At least 24 people were “martyred” and 42 others, nearly all of them civilians, were injured Monday morning after a Taliban suicide car bomber targeted civilians in west of Kabul city, officials told Afghanistan Times. The bomber used a corolla, full of explosives, to carry out the attack in …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The ongoing clashes between Afghan security forces and the Taliban insurgents have been resulted into closure of Kunduz-Takhar highway in Khanabad district of northern Kunduz province on Friday. According to provincial officials, Khanabad district is in brink of collapse as clashes on the move. The Khanabad distract …

Private military contractors have spotted an opportunity as America’s longest war grinds on. Here’s a crazy idea floating around Washington these days, outlandish even by today’s outlandish standards: The United States should hire a mercenary army to “fix” Afghanistan, a country where we’ve been at war since 2001, spending billions …

By Mirwais Jalalzai-“They told me that my mother had sold me to them,” Jamila” said of her kidnappers, who abducted her from her home in Kabul when she was only 14, then forced her into sexual servitude . “They forced me to drink alcohol, smoke shisha and do lap dance …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: At least seven militants of Islamic State, also known as Daesh terrorist group have been killed as a result of an explosion by their own explosives in the Pachiragam district of eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Wednesday. Attaullah Khogyani, the governor’s spokesperson, told Pajhwok Afghan …