AT News KABUL: At least 63 Taliban insurgents have been killed and 21 others were wounded during latest crackdowns carried out by the Afghan security forces in different provinces around the country in the past 24 hours, ministry of defense said on Wednesday. In a series of clearance operations, the …
Read More »National Journalists’ Day; 9 Journalists Killed, 301 Female Media Professionals Lost Jobs in past Six Months
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan celebrates the March 17th as the National Journalists’ Day amid intensive security threats from the media family as the country has recently experienced a high level of violence, including targeted-killings of high profile figures such as journalists, civil society activists, judges, scholars, doctors, and employees. Journalists …
Read More »Afghan Delegation leave for Moscow to Participate in Peace Meeting
AT News KABUL: A delegation consisting of government officials and political figures left Wednesday for Russia to participate in a peace meeting scheduled to be held in Moscow. A delegation from Taliban militants are also going to participate in the meeting planned to be held on Thursday. Abdullah Abdullah, head …
Read More »Afghanistan Records 28 COVID-19 Cases, Two Deaths in One Day
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 28 new cases of coronavirus and two deaths in the past 24 hours across the country, said the Ministry of Public Health on Wednesday. The total tally since the outbreak has reached to 56,044 around the country. The new cases come positive out of …
Read More »China Willing to Share its Experience in Poverty Reduction with Afghanistan
By Wang Yu, Chinese Ambassador to Afghanistan The 25th February 2021 was a special day for the Chinese people. At a grand gathering to mark the nation’s poverty alleviation accomplishments and honour model poverty fighters, Chinese President Xi Jinping solemnly declared a complete victory in the fight against poverty as …
Read More »U.S. Forces Conduct Airstrikes on Taliban in Kandahar
AT News KABUL: The U.S. Forces in Afghanistan have conducted airstrikes on the Taliban hideouts in the southern Kandahar province. The U.S. Forces Spokesman, Sonny Leggett said in a tweet on Wednesday that the strikes were carried out in Spinboldak and Zhari districts of Kandahar within the past 48 hours. …
Read More »The Afghanistan Study Group Recommendations for Peace
Summary by Matin Royeen Ph.D Introduction: In the past forty years, the Afghan people have paid a very heavy price due to protracted violent conflict. The bloody Communist coup of 1978 followed by ten years of former Soviet invasion in December of 1979 and the brutal civil war caused …
Read More »Bamyan Journalists Express Concern over Limitation of Access to Information
AT News KABUL: Journalists in the relatively secure province of Bamiyan in the center of Afghanistan express concerns over what they say “restrictions in access to information”. In a resolution issued Tuesday, they called on the local government not to spare sharing information with the media based on the information …
Read More »Afghanistan Records 21 New Cases of COVID-19
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 21 new cases of Coronavirus around the country in the past 24 hours, said the Ministry of Public Health on Tuesday. The total tally since the outbreak of the epidemic has reached to 56,016 cases across the country. The new cases come positive out …
Read More »14 Civilians Killed as Violence Surges Amid U.S. Push to End War
By Farhad Naibkhel KABUL: At least 14 innocent civilians have been killed while many more were wounded in the past three days of violence in Kabul, the capital city and in northern Baghlan and western Heart provinces. The Afghan masses have tasted a relentless spite in violence amid renewed U.S. …
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