AT News KABUL: At least 44 Taliban insurgents were killed and eight others wounded in fresh military strings conducted by the Afghan security forces in central Ghazni and western Nimroz provinces during the past 24 hours, defense ministry said on Saturday. The ministry in a statement said that Afghan air …
Read More »Commando forces free 20 military members from a Taliban prison in Nimroz
AT News KABUL: At least 20 security force members were released from a Taliban prison during a raid conducted by the Afghan security forces in southern Nimroz province. The Ministry of Defense said that Afghan army conducted an operation over Taliban prison in Khash Rod district of Nimroz province, in …
Read More »UN reports 29pc increase in Afghan civilian casualties
“Every possible opportunity for peace must be seized. If levels of violence are not immediately reduced, thousands of Afghan civilians will continue to be killed and injured by fellow Afghans in 2021,” said Deborah Lyons, head of UNAMA. AT News KABUL: The United Nation Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) on …
Read More »Taliban shun ‘any peace conference’ till complete foreign pull out
Abdullah says Taliban shouldn’t miscalculate U.S. Sept. 11 withdrawal deadline and avoid wasting time for negotiation AT News KABUL: The Taliban on late Tuesday announced that they would not attend any peace conference until all foreign troops leave Afghanistan. They also refused to attend a summit on Afghanistan’s future to …
Read More »Armed robbers kill man in Kabul
AT News KABUL: A number of armed robbers stormed into a house in PD 5th of Kabul city, killing a man and wounded three other members of a family, security officials said on Wednesday. Kabul Police Spokesman, Firdaws Faramarz said that the incident occurred on Monday night in the Afshar …
Read More »Rahmani warns of civil war if U.S. troops exit rashly
AT News KABUL: Speaker of the lower house of the parliament (Wolesi Jirga), Mir Rahman Rahmani on Wednesday has given a pessimistic view saying the U.S. troop withdrawal would pose a possible civil war in Afghanistan. “The withdrawal of troops was one of the wishes of Afghans for a longtime …
Read More »Eight police officers join Taliban in Farah
AT News KABUL: Officials in the western province of Farah say that eight police officers have deserted and joined the Taliban. The officers have joined the militant in Farah city, provincial capital of the same name, according to local officials. Allah Dad Qaneh, head of provincial council, said Wednesday that …
Read More »Qanooni to Danish: Our peace proposal is to end war and form participatory govt. acceptable for all
AT News KABUL: A senior member of the high council for national reconciliation, Mohammad Yunus Qanooni, who also leads the committee for forging a draft-proposal for the Istanbul conference, said their peace plan is to end the war and to form a participatory government with inclusion of everyone. He also …
Read More »Indonesian clerics denounce Afghan war ‘tyrannical’
AT News KABUL: The religious scholars in Indonesia condemned the ongoing war in Afghanistan as tyrannical, calling for immediate end in violence in the war-hit country. According to ministry of foreign affairs, the Indonesian clerics have condemned the war in Afghanistan as “illegitimate and tyrannical”. They have declared that violence …
Read More »Taliban kill three soldiers on first day of Ramadan in Badakhshan
AT News KABUL: Three members of the Afghan security force were killed by the Taliban in Zibak district of northern Badakhshan province on the first day of Ramadan, the holy month of the Muslims, local sources said on Tuesday. Provincial Governor Spokesman, Nek Mohammad Nazari said Taliban captured the three …
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