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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL:  Around 100,000 enrolled students have been unable to attend more than 100 schools due to rampant of insecurity in southern Helmand province, official said. “107 schools had been closed due to growing of insecurity in the province, and the total member of government-run schools is 384 in …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A message of the Taliban’s supreme commander, Mullah Mohammad Omar, regarding the recent round of formal peace talks said to be written in Pakistan’s port city, Karachi. Bette Dam, author of “A Man and a Motorcycle, How Hamid Karzai Came to Power” said the message was most …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Three children were killed when a mortar hit a house in northern Kunduz province during Eid days, official said on Tuesday. Khanabad district chief, Hayatullah Amiri, said, the incident took place in first night of the Eid, in which three children of a family were killed when …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Afghans security forces during a military operation captured two important centers of the Taliban insurgents in Almar district in northern Faryab province, official said on Tuesday. “Two Taliban facilities were held in Turbat and Badghis areas in the district during the operation,” Mohammad Saleh Saleh, Almar district …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The second deputy of Chief Executive Officer said the Taliban has joined the peace process after emergence of the Islamic State in the country as major opponent of the militant group. Though, Mohammad Mohaqiq welcomed the recent round of formal peace talks between the Afghan government and …

AT-KABUL: Unidentified gunmen killed a senior provincial member of the High Peace Council (HPC) in Paghman district of Kabul province. Spokesman to the Maidan Wardak governor, Attuallah Khogyani, on Tuesday identified the HPC member as Maulwi Saleh Muhammad Hottak. He told media that the HPC member was resident of Maidan …

KABUL: Some senators on Tuesday strongly condemned Monday’s airstrike by American forces on an Afghan National Army (ANA) outpost in central Logar province, calling it intentional and demanded the perpetrators’ prosecution. Local officials said eight ANA troops were killed and another half a dozen were wounded in the early morning …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Torrential rains wreaked havoc in eastern parts of the country as flash floods destroy scores of homes and crops standing on hundreds of acres of agricultural land in Kunar and Nangarhar provinces. Provincial director of the Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA) in Kunar told a local …

AT-KABUL: Council of the European Union (EU) on Monday urged Afghanistan’s neighbors and other regional countries to support the Afghan-led peace process. Welcoming the recent efforts of the Afghan leadership to bring back stability and peace to the country, the council in its meeting which held in Brussels, emphasized on …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A number of Wolesi Jirga members and experts said that fight against the ISIS, also known as Daesh, should be led by Afghan security forces. They said that if the United States and international forces want to conduct a joint war against ISIS in Afghanistan, then the …