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AT News KABUL: Afghanistan’s armed forces have repelled a full-blown Taliban attack on a key district in northern Samangan province and killed a handful of insurgents and foiling their longstanding plan to capture the district centre. District Chief Haji Fazlullah on Saturday said Taliban insurgents had staged a full-scale dawn …

AT News KABUL: The Ministry of Public Health on Wednesday reported 1,575 new cases of coronavirus and 86 deaths across the country in the past 24 hours. The new cases come positive out of 5,096 suspected samples during the same period of time, according to the health ministry’s data. The …

AT News KABUL: The government officials say they would arm and support those people who want to fight Taliban. Naqibullah Fayeq, the newly-appointed deputy interior minister, who is in Mazar-e-Sharif, a strategic city in the north to evaluate the security situation, said Wednesday that Kabul would support public mobilization against …

AT News KABUL: At least 209 Taliban insurgents were killed and 129 others wounded during a series of military operations conducted by the Afghan security forces in different provinces across the country in the past 24 hours, the defense ministry said on Wednesday. Backed by the Afghan Air Forces, the …

AT News KABUL: A roadside bombing targeted a public transportation in Maiwand district of southern Kandahar province, killing five people and wounding 18 others. Provincial Police Spokesman, Jamal Nasir Barakzai said that a public bus of Nahr-e-Saraj Company hit a roadside bomb in Gach Garez area of Maiwand. He put …

AT News KABUL: The Taliban now control more than 100 districts across Afghanistan with more territories falling to the insurgents every day, a report by the Long War Journal said Tuesday. Since early May of this year, Afghanistan has been subject to a substantial increase in Taliban attacks with security …

AT News KABUL: The Afghan defense authorities say that the Afghan security forces have retaken the control of Balkh district in Balkh, Doshi district in Baghlan, and Ali Abad district in Kunduz province. The ministry of defense in a statement said that Afghan security forces have recaptured the control of …

AT News KABUL: The Ministry of Public Health on Tuesday reported 2,202 new cases of coronavirus and 73 deaths across the country in the past 24 hours. The new cases were tested positive out of 5,499 suspected samples during the same period of time, according to the health ministry’s data. …

AT News KABUL: Taliban have managed to capture the districts of Nahrin and Baghlan-e-Markazi in Baghlan in the north, Shah Joy in Zabul in the south, Qarqin and Khamab in Jawzjan in north, Choora in Uruzgan in south, Ahmad Khil and Laja Mangal in Paktia in east and Gol Tapa …

AT News KABUL: In the wake of foreign troop withdrawal, the Taliban has intensified violence rather than to engage in a meaningful negotiation, said President Ghani’s Senior Advisor Wahid Omar. Mr. Omar who is also Director General of Office of Public and Strategic Affairs Wahid Omar made the statement on …