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AT-KABUL: Afghan forces have successfully cleared the Bagh-e-Pul district of the western province of Farah from Taliban insurgents and destroyed their main hideouts, security officials said Saturday. Provincial police chief, Mohammad Ghaws Malyar, said that clashes are underway in different area of Barangtot, Deh Yak and Shor Abad in the …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Local officials on Saturday said reinforcements had arrived in Tirinkot, the capital of southern Uruzgan province after the reopening of the Uruzgan-Kandahar highway. Tirinkot city has been under attack from Taliban militants, who have captured some areas from Afghan forces in the past one month. An official …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: It is in the interest of both India and Pakistan to see a stable, secure Afghanistan emerge from the years of fighting, the US State Department Deputy Spokesman Mark Toner said. “And certainly, in the interest of regional security as well, there’s a lot of contentious issues, …

7,400 Afghans return daily from Pakistan; 4,350 children screened for malnutrition; Afghanistan to receive 1.5 million returnees by March 15, 2017; UNHCR needs additional $2.1 million in the medium-term AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) warned of escalating …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Afghan envoy on Friday expressed hopes that decision by five countries to boycott South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Summit scheduled to be held in Islamabad will bring positive results and force non-cooperating member nations to walk on the path of peace and partnership. “Afghanistan …

By Mansoor Faizy-KABUL: Expressing deep concerns over increasing incidents of violence across the country, the Afghanistan Council for Peace Salvation (ACPS) on Friday called on parties to the war to agree on an unconditional ceasefire, saying that nobody has achieved political goals through fighting. “Time is ripe for all [parties] …

MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said India and Russia were both interested in deepening “constructive multilateral cooperation” to help rebuild war-torn Afghanistan where decisive action was needed to defeat terrorism. In an interview with IANS and Sputnik news agencies, Putin said Afghanistan was of concern as the “situation on …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: After heavy causalities inflicted to the Taliban, Afghan security forces have reopened the Kandahar-Uruzgan Highway after 40 days of closure by the insurgents, officials said on Friday. “Security forces used useful techniques to reopen the highway by imposing heavy causalities to the Taliban,” TOLONews quoted, Police Chief …

By Mansoor Faizy-KABUL: Thirty-three Muslim worshipers were killed and 82 others injured in two separate terror attacks in the country. The massacres have left the whole Afghan nation in shock. Dozens of the worshippers were killed and wounded in two heart-wrenching incidents during Ashura in Kabul and northern Balkh province. …

Islamabad bans journalist from foreign travel after he tells truth AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Islamabad has put the name of renowned journalist, Cyril Almeida, in the Exit Control List (ECL) when he broke the news on the differences developed in a meeting between the powerful military establishment and weak Nawaz Sharif’s …