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AT News KABUL: Lemon yield has increased to six tons in eastern Nangarhar province this year, officials said on Sunday. Around 2,500 acres of lands are lemon gardens in the district and Jalalabad city of the province, and the harvest has reached 5,900 tons this year, Nangarhar Press Office said …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 77 new positive cases of coronavirus and eight fatalities in the past 24 hours across the country, the Ministry of Public Health said Sunday. The total tally since the outbreak of the virus has now stands to 54,672 across the country. The news cases …

AT News KABUL: The Interior Minister, Mohammad Massoud Andarabi has blamed Taliban for the continued uptick in violence and carrying out targeted killings of civil society activists and journalists across the country. According to Andarabi, who spoke with foreign media outlets, the Taliban deliberately delayed the peace process and waited …

AT News KABUL: At least 28 Taliban militants have been killed and four others were wounded during latest crackdowns carried out by the Afghan security forces in different provinces within the past 24 hours, defense ministry said on Saturday. Taliban insurgents were planning to attack Afghan National Defense and Security …

Abdullah says Taliban have intensified violence and targeted-killings AT News KABUL: Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation, Abdullah Abdullah said Saturday that the Taliban was reluctant to reduce violence in the wake of the second round of the intra-Afghan negotiations in Doha of Qatar. Talking in the inauguration …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan recorded 36 new cases of Covid-19 and 5 fatties within the past 24 hours, bringing the total tally to over 54,595. The new cases were recorded out of 882-suspected samples tested in the country laboratories, the health ministry said in a statement on Saturday.  The cases …

AT News KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani has fired his Finance Minister, Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal, citing failure on collecting of taxes and incompetence in other areas behind his removal, the Administrative Office of the President said on Saturday. Mr. Arghandiwal received votes of confidence from lawmakers and took charge as Finance …

By Rabbani Feroz Al Qaeda’s second-highest leader, accused of being one of the masterminds of the deadly 1998 attacks on American embassies in Africa, was killed in Iran three months ago, which has been confirmed by intelligence officials. United States accused Iran of providing new terrorist base for Al-Qaida. After …

Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday amid lots of demands from his administration both inside America and outside the country. He needs to meet these requests to correct what his predecessor Donald Trump could not or did not want to. One …

AT News KABUL: Afghan officials are concerned by the deadlock in the second round of the intra-Afghan negotiations being held in Qatari capital of Doha. Deputy speaker of the lower house of the parliament, Mohammad Mirza Katawazai said that there was no progress in the negotiations between the two sides. …