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AT News KABUL: Three female Afghan journalists were shot dead in Jalalabad, the capital city of eastern Nangarhar province on Tuesday as the brazen continuation of serial killings of journalists and the string of targeted-killings continue to take more lives in Afghanistan. The three slain female anchors were working for …

AT News KABUL: Karima Faryabi Minister of Economy said that the five million Afghan women needed job opportunities. In the wake of March 8, marked as the international women’s day, the Independent Directorate of Local Governance in cooperation with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) held a ceremony in …

AT News KABUL: More than 16,000 people have been immunized against the Corona virus just one week since the vaccination program was launched in Afghanistan. Gholam Jilani Niyazi, head physician in Herat provincial hospital said Tuesday that most of those vaccinated are healthcare personnel including himself. Niyazi, 54, continued serving …

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 …