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AT News KABUL: The Taliban group has prevented girls from going to schools in the northeastern Takhar province, provincial educational authorities said on Tuesday. Officials at Takhar education department said that the Taliban fighters opposed girls from going to school in Qalbris and Chayla villages of Baharak district. The tribal …

AT News KABUL: Some 1,523 people mostly civilians have been killed in violence intensified after the United States and Taliban reached a peace agreement last year in Qatar, under which the insurgents vowed to reduce violence in Afghanistan, an Afghan peace negotiator said. Nader Naderi, a member of the government’s …

AT News KABUL: The Afghan Commando Forces have conquered Taliban’s largest command and control center during a latest crackdown in eastern Nangarhar province, military officials said on Tuesday. The operation was conducted in Hesarak district of the province where the Afghan Commandos succeeded to capture the command and control center …

AT News KABUL: At least 400 perpetrators have been arrested on charge of organizing magnetic bomb explosions since this new subversive tactic was started around several months ago, authorities said on Tuesday. The sticky mine blast that often targets high-profile figures in urban areas is considered the insurgents’ new tactic …

AT News KABUL: At least 136 women were killed in different parts of Afghanistan during the outgoing Persian Year (beginning on March 21, 2020). The ministry of women’s affairs calls family violence as the main reason of these killings. Roya Dadras, the ministry’s spokeswoman, said Monday that the toll had …

AT News KABUL: Interior Minister Massoud Andarabi calls on Taliban to use the peace opportunity, saying that peace doors are open for them via negotiations. “The security forces are displaying their power, talent, capacity and disciplines today to tell the enemies that Afghanistan is not going to return to the …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 26 new cases of COVID-19 and two deaths in the past 24 hours, said the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) on Monday. The total tally since the outbreak of the epidemic has reached to 55,759 cases around the country since the spread of the …

AT News KABUL: At least 16 al-Qaeda terrorists among 30 Taliban militants have been killed in latest raids conducted by the Afghan security forces in northern Kapisa province, officials said on Monday. In a series of crackdowns carried out by Afghan security forces in Dara-e-Afghania area of Nijrab district of …

Kabul: A lucky customer from Kabul won the grand prize of one million Afghani from Etisalat`s ‘Win with Us’ offer. 24 year old Khwaja Saifullah, winner of the grand prize, received his prize in an event organized at the main office building of Etisalat Afghanistan, on 25 February 2021. ‘During …

By Oğuzhan ERTUĞRUL Today marks the centennial anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Turkey and Afghanistan. Ankara Government was officially recognized today by Afghanistan through the Treaty of Alliance signed on 1 March 1921. I use the term “Ankara Government”, because Turkey is founded in 1923, and in …