AT News KABUL: Twenty seven people were arrested in Kabul for involvement in criminal offences as part of police operation fighting crime and drug trafficking in capital city over the past two days. The suspects are convicted of murder, possession of unregistered weapons, disrupting public order, robbery, looting of citizens’ …
Read More »Afghanistan records highest single-day death toll from COVID-19
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan registered its highest every single-day toll of 41 COVID-19 deaths, the ministry of public health said Saturday. The country also reported 1,273 fresh cases of coronavirus, bringing the total tally to 79,236 cases nationwide since the outbreak of the virus started over a year ago. According …
Read More »Three districts fall to Taliban in Nuristan, Zabul
AT News KABUL: Three districts are purportedly fallen into the Taliban as armed conflicts have been intensifying across the country. A local source in the eastern province of Nuristan, talking on condition of anonymity, said that the security forces retreated from Do Ab and Mandawal districts of the province. The …
Read More »Karzai condemns civilian casualties in Kabul, Helmand attacks
AT News KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai strongly condemned bomb blast in a passenger bus in Kabul city and an airstrike in the southern province of Helmand in which a number of civilians including women and children were killed and wounded. In a statement issued Saturday, Karzai expressed his deep …
Read More »Atmar in Herat to discuss joint projects with Turkmen officials
AT News KABUL: Afghan and Turkmen officials met in western Herat province on Saturday to discuss join projects between the two countries. Foreign Minister MohmmadHanifAtmar leading a high level delegation visited Herat province to exchange views with his Turkmen counterpart regarding implementation, expansion of infrastructure projects, trade, transport, energy transfer …
Read More »181 Taliban insurgents killed in military raids
AT News KABUL: At least 181 Taliban insurgents were killed and 83 others wounded in 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 Saturday. Backed by the Afghan Air Forces, the Afghan …
Read More »Taliban violence continues unabated despite peace talks
AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Taliban insurgents show no sign of reducing the level of violence in Afghanistan to facilitate peace negotiations with the government, and appear to be trying to strengthen their military position as leverage, with the “unprecedented violence” of 2020 carrying into 2021, UN experts said in a …
Read More »Rabbani says some circles in Afghan warring sides lack peace intention
AT News KABUL: Leader of Hezb-e-Jamiat Islami, Salahuddin Rabbani says that some circles of Afghan war sides avoid intention for peace and that they “consider the prolonging of war as mission and goal”. “In one last year, everyday peace is mentioned but a small step has not been offered for …
Read More »Female news anchor killed in Kabul blast
AT News KABUL: Mina Khairi, a female news anchor for Ariana News, was among the dead victims of Thursday evening’s Kabul blast in the west of Kabul that killed four others, the head of Ariana News, Sharif Hassanyar has confirmed. The Afghan authorities confirmed through DNA tests that two of …
Read More »Afghanistan records 2,819 cases in two days as Covid-19 peaking
AT News KABUL: The ministry of public health reported 2,819 cases of the pandemic Covid-19 with 70 deaths recorded within the past two days. In this period, 162 patients were recovered. Talking to a news conference, the acting minister of public health, Waheed Majroh said that Afghanistan would face a …
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