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“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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

AT News KABUL: At least 10 members of the Afghan National Army (ANA) have lost their lives and three more received injuries after a number of Taliban militants attacked their checkpoint in northern Balkh province, local sources said on Tuesday. Five more security forces were taken hostage by the Taliban, …

AT News KABUL: Former National Security Advisor, Rangin Dadfar Spanta expressed concerns on the Afghan peace process, terming it complex and ambiguous. He said that the Istanbul conference and next phases of the peace negotiations is very much complex and he has no clear views on it. Spanta vowed that …