AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 172 new cases of coronavirus and 10 deaths around the country in the past 24 hours, said the Ministry of Public Health on Sunday. The total tally since the outbreak of the epidemic reached to 59,015 cases across the country. The new cases were …
Read More »Helmand residents launch peace campaign: No justification for ongoing war
AT News KABUL: A number of civil rights activists and other residents in the southern province of Helmand on Sunday launched a campaign on peace titled “what does war mean when foreigners leave?” The campaign is called “public”, with Eqbal Khyber, the head of public movement for peace, saying that …
Read More »No security vacuum after foreign withdrawal, assures defense ministry
AT News KABUL: The ministry of defense assures that there would be no security vacuum once the US-led foreign soldiers exit in some four months. The Western media outlets report of packing and transporting of foreign military equipment as the first steps of troop pullout from Afghanistan after 20 years …
Read More »Taliban leadership divided into parts: Saraj
AT News KABUL: Intelligence Chief, Ahmad Zia Saraj says that a major vacuum has been created in the Taliban leadership as the group is fractured between Quetta and Peshawar shuras (councils). Speaking at a news conference on Saturday in Kabul, the Afghan security and defense officials briefed the media about …
Read More »Six security forces killed by roadside bombs in Logar, Nangarhar
AT News KABUL: Six members of the Afghan security forces lost their lives in the roadside bomb blasts in eastern Nangarhar and southeastern Logar provinces, security officials said on Saturday. Logar Police spokesman, Gul Haidar Ahmadi said that a bomb went off Saturday morning in Kunjak area of provincial capital …
Read More »Faryab residents reject new governor
AT News KABUL: Hundreds of residents of northwestern Faryab province on Saturday staged demonstration to protest President Ghani’s decision for appointing of Mohammad Dawood as the new provincial governor. The protests were launched in Maimana city the provincial capital ordered by Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum against the dismissal of Naqibullah …
Read More »Covid-19: cases 113, deaths 10
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan recorded 113 new cases of the pandemic of Covid-19 with an additional fatality of 10 deaths within past 24 hours, health officials said on Saturday. Mirwais Fazli, a spokesman for the ministry of public health said that the new cases were recorded out of 1,100 samples. …
Read More »Kandahar, Ghazni blasts leave seven civilians dead
AT News KABUL: At least seven civilians lost their lives in two separate roadside bomb blasts in southern Kandahar and southeastern Ghazni provinces, according to the security officials. Four civilians were killed in a blast that occurred in Qabristan area in Arghandab district of Kandahar province, provincial police spokesman said. …
Read More »6 people dead as gunmen attacks looming in Kabul
AT News KABUL: At least six people have lost their lives in different security incidents in Kabul, a capital city in which insecurity is on the rise spectacularly. The victims are two civilians and four security force members that were killed in the past 24 hours. A government employee, Baryalai …
Read More »70 Taliban militants killed in new military strikes
AT News KABUL: At least 70 Taliban insurgents were killed and 20 others wounded in latest military stings carried out by the Afghan security forces in different provinces in the past 24 hours. The ministry of defense in a statement on Wednesday said that the operations were conducted as part …
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