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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Lt. Gen. John Nicholson who has been nominated by President Barack Obama as the new US forces commander in Afghanistan, says that the US authorities need to think about “an enduring commitment” to the Afghans. Nicholson told the US Senate Armed Services Committee that the plan for …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The National Security       Advisor Mohammad Hanif Atmar on Friday met with German ambassador to Kabul Markus Potzel, discussing issues that cause Afghans’ migration. At least 160,000 Afghans have reportedly reached Europe over the past one year to seek asylum and some 40 percent of them have been …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A Russian delegation will soon visit Kabul for bolstering up mutual trade ties between Afghanistan and Russia, Afghan officials in chamber of commerce and industries said the other day. Kabul will ink a contract with Russian officials on Afghanistan’s fresh and dry fruits export aimed at finding …

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has recruited thousands of undocumented Afghans living there to fight in Syria since at least November 2013, Human Rights Watch said today, and a few have reported that Iranian authorities coerced them. Iran has urged the Afghans to defend Shia sacred sites and offered financial …

An Afghan refugee died Thursday after being found in a remote region of eastern Turkey, hospital sources said. The man, identified as Mohammed Qasim, died in hospital in Erzurum after being found close to death by security forces in the province of Van, where temperatures regularly fall to around minus …

KABUL: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday said their mission in Afghanistan was aimed at denying safe haven to international terrorists. Launching his annual report for 2015 in Brussels, the NATO chief said they would continue to train, advise and assist the Afghan army and police. He said the …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: The Independent Directorate of Local Governance (IDLG) on Thursday said that it would appoint new governors and mayors by the end of current solar year, which will end on March 20, to replace all remaining caretakers. Spokesperson for the IDLG, Munira Yousuf Zada, told reporters that …

AT-KABUL: As many as 28 Taliban fighters were killed and 25 others wounded in different crackdowns within past 24 hours, said a statement. 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 …

AT-KABUL: At least four employees of the Demining Agency For Afghanistan (DAFA) were killed and one other injured when militants attacked them on Wednesday in Nahr-e-Siraj district of the southern Helmand province, a provincial official said. “The de-miners were attacked while they were conducting their normal mine clearance activities,” Omar …

AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Wednesday reported of the seizure of a Taliban ammunition cache in the central Wardak province, saying it was confiscated. The NDS said in a statement that its operatives managed to discover and seize the ammunition cache “belonging to the Taliban insurgents” in …