AT News KABUL: More than 108 Taliban fighters were killed and 22 others were wounded in fresh raids carried out by the Afghan security forces across the country within the last 24 hours, defense ministry said on Sunday. The security forces engaged into aerial and ground raids in Panjwaee and …
Read More »Traders affected in Islam Qala fire block Herat highway
AT News KABUL: The traders and truck drivers whose vehicles were destroyed due to a great fire in the Islam Qala port in the west in February, blocked the important Herat highway to protest government’s carelessness to their situation. The protestors want government compensation. Mohammad Hassan, whose tanker was destroyed, …
Read More »First car bombing rips Kabul after five months
Three members of Afghan security forces were killed and 12 more wounded after a Taliban car bomber targeted their convoy in Paghman AT News KABUL: Over 15 people were killed and wounded as a car bomb rips western part of Kabul province for the first time in the past five …
Read More »Danesh warns against ‘another war if a just peace’ not ensured
AT News KABUL: Vice President Mohammad Sarwar Danesh urges a just peace in the country, warning that another war would emerge if it was not ensured. “We believe that if a just peace is not ensured, it will not be lasting and will lead to another war by another shape,” …
Read More »Afghan forces take back Darwaz area in Badakhshan’s Nasye district from Taliban after three years
AT News KABUL: Ministry of Defense on Sunday said that the Afghan security forces have freed an area in Darwaz area in Nasye district in northern Badakhshan province after three years under control of the Taliban. The ministry in a statement said that the Afghan security forces supported by air …
Read More »Afghan Post starts online services
AT News KABUL: The Afghan Post has inaugurated the online postal service system for the government administration. Talking in the inauguration ceremony of the online system, director of the Afghan Post, Ahmad Wahid Wais said that the service would initially come into effect by the ministry of foreign affairs. The …
Read More »Students study under sunlight as school lacks building in Kabul
3.7 million Afghan children are out of school across Afghanistan AT News KABUL: More than 3,000 students at one of the schools located in PD 7th of Kabul city are lacking classrooms and are left with no other option but to study under the hot waves of sun. The Ghulam …
Read More »A security officer killed in Kabul
AT News KABUL: A member of Afghan security forces was killed and three others received injuries after a roadside mine struck their vehicle and went off in Paghman district of Kabul on Sunday morning. Confirming the incident, Kabul police said that an IED blast hit a Ranger vehicle in Qagha …
Read More »Civilian casualties in Afghanistan worrying: Watchdog
AT News KABUL: The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission has expressed concerns on prolonging the civilians’ casualties across the country. The commission in a statement said that 21 civilians including 10 children and eight women were wounded in Alishing district of the eastern Laghman province. The findings of the commission …
Read More »Afghanistan records 11 COVID-19 related deaths in a single day
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 41 new cases of coronavirus and 11 deaths around the country in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Public Health said Sunday. The total tally since the outbreak of the epidemic has reached 56,717 cases. The new cases come positive out of 1,692 …
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