AT News KABUL: The ministry of public health reported 1,485 confirmed cases of the pandemic virus with additional fatalities of 77 deaths. The new tally was recorded out of 4,238 samples within the past 24 hours across the country. During this period, 834 people were recovered. The total number of …
Read More »Fighting displaces thousands in Daikundi
AT News KABUL: Taliban threats have displaced nearly 3,000 families in tumultuous Daikundi province in the past week alone, local officials said on Monday, adding to woes of civilians across Afghanistan, bearing the brunt of an unabated conflict. Over 2,000 families have fled the fighting and taken refuge in capital …
Read More »Lawmakers criticize fall of ‘constellation of districts’
AT News KABUL: Lawmakers in the Parliament have criticized the government for the fall of a constellation of district centers to the Taliban across Afghanistan, calling it ‘suspicious’. Referring to the US-Afghanistan security pact, a number of lawmakers on Monday said that the US withdrawal from Afghanistan was “irresponsible”. They …
Read More »Afghan forces retreat from several districts
AT News KABUL: The government forces have retreated from several district compounds in the northern provinces of Badakhshan and Parwan, and southern Helmand and Kandahar. Government forces have left two districts in the provinces of Kandahar and Helmand, the southern area with Kandahar known as Taliban birthplace where the insurgent …
Read More »Famine feared in Faryab after rebels seize key port
AT News KABUL: The closure of Aqina border port has sparked fear of starvation in the four districts of Faryab province in the north as residents of the districts of Qaramqol, Qorghan, Khan Chahar Bagh and Andkhoy received foodstuff from the port that is bordering the neighboring Turkmenistan. Taliban took …
Read More »Coronavirus; Afghanistan records 1,243 cases, 84 deaths
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan recorded 1,242 cases of the pandemic Covid-19, bringing the total tally to over 125,937. The new cases were recorded out of 4,642 samples tested in the country’s laboratories within past 24 hours. During this period, 84 patients died, while 806 others recovered. The total number of …
Read More »Militants seize more districts in a paroxysmal of unabated violence
AT News KABUL: The Taliban have purportedly captured several districts amid severe offensives raging across the country. However, the ministry of defense said that it recaptured Baharak district of the northern Badakhshan province. A spokesman for the ministry of defense, Fawad Aman said that the security forces inflicted heavy casualties …
Read More »Taliban threats shutter 20 radio stations in north
AT News KABUL: Radio Keshm, a local channel in the remote mountainous province of Badakhshan in the northeast is one of 20 broadcasters which had to stop activities when the area it locates in the district of Keshm fell to Taliban recently. Noor Aqa Noori, the in charge of the …
Read More »Saleh: Taliban can’t seize power
AT News KABUL: In the light of worsening security and advances Taliban are trumpeting, First Vice President is trying to assuage growing public fears, saying that the resurgent Taliban are “never able to occupy Afghanistan and seize power”. “I see a great and historic opportunity for unity. Every single community …
Read More »Officials sound alarm over Black Fungus outbreak
AT News KABUL: The Ministry of Public Health warns about the outbreak of the Black Fungus disease in Afghanistan, saying that it had registered so far three positive cases in the provinces of Kabul, Baghlan and Samangan. Earlier this week, reports said that a 30 years old man and a …
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