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AT-KABUL: At least six Resolute Support service members were killed and three others wounded on Monday after a suicide bomber targeted the joint patrol convoy of Afghan and foreign troops in Bagram district of northern Parwan province. Spokesman to the Parwan governor, Wahidullah Sediqi, said that a suicide attacker riding …

Officials said on Sunday the Taliban had captured the Sangin district of southern Helmand province, besieging dozens of police. A reliable source at the provincial police headquarters said the Sangin district fell into the hands of Taliban militants on Sunday afternoon when the rebels overran the district administration office. He said …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: As its prerequisites for joining Muslim antiterrorism coalition, the government should urge the alliance to cut off all funding sources for terrorism in the region and support Afghan security forces, said a number of lawmakers and political analysts. Saudi Arabia recently announced the formation of a coalition …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The government has kicked off an anti-land grabbing campaign in eastern Nangarhar province on Sunday, local officials said. The campaign is aimed to retake the state-owned lands which were grabbed by some influential people over the past several years. The campaign officially started in Behsud district of …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Unknown gunmen have abducted three civilians on the Kabul-Ghazni highway, said an official on Sunday. The provincial council head of Ghazni, Khaliqdad Akbari, told media that the abducted people were on way to their destinations from Malistan district to the provincial capital when unknown gunmen stopped their …

AT-KABUL: Briefing members of the Wolesi Jirga or Lower House of the parliament on Sunday, the minister of mines Daud Shah Saba said the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project would create 7,000 jobs in the country. He said that work on TAPI gas pipeline project would be launched in Afghanistan …

AT-KABUL: President Muhammad Ashraf Ghani is expected to leave Kabul for Azerbaijan tomorrow (Tuesday) on an official trip where he would explore new avenues to enhance cooperation between the two countries. Embassy of Afghanistan in Azerbaijan in a media statement said that the president would be accompanied by the ministers …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Local officials have warned of escalating insecurity in Kunduz. They said that after the fall of Kunduz city in late September, the Taliban seized different types of weapons from security forces, which they are using now against the government forces and civilians. This comes amid ongoing clashes …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Afghanistan can benefit from the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BKT) railway project and speed up the rebuilding process, Azerbaijani political analyst said on Sunday. Fikret Sadikhov told Trend News Agency that Afghanistan and Azerbaijan have close trade and commerce ties and the two countries planned to implement different projects in …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Indian media reported that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi might soon visit Kabul to inaugurate the parliament building—India’s symbolic gift of democracy to Afghanistan. According to reports, Prime Minister’s Office has put pressure on all stakeholders to finish the project and said that Modi was keen that …