AT News KABUL: Abdullah Abdullah, chairman of the reconciliation council says that the release of Taliban prisoners was not useful for the reduction of violence and a cease fire. Speaking to women’s activists in the western province of Herat, Abdullah said Saturday that the government freed 5,000 imprisoned insurgents with …
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AT News KABUL: At least 77 Taliban rebels were killed and 29 others wounded as part of the counterattacks by the Afghan security forces in southern Kandahar and eastern Nangarhar provinces. According to a statement issued by the ministry of defense, 60 Taliban militants were killed in clashes erupted between …
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AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The government of Australia is preparing to release a report on the conduct of special forces during the conflict in Afghanistan — and will appoint a special investigator to prosecute allegations of war crimes by Australian soldiers, the UPI reported on Friday. Australian Prime minister Scott Morrison …
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AT News KABUL: The Human Rights Watch claims that Taliban had earlier threatened Elyas Dayee, a local journalist in the southern province of Helmand to death. Dayee was killed Thursday when a magnetic bomb placed in his car, went off in the provincial capital city of Lashkar Gah. His brother …
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AT News KABUL: At least 18 Afghan security forces have been killed in two attacks around Afghanistan, as violence keeps the country in its grasp and the start of the intra-Afghan talks remain fragile. Defense ministry said four army soldiers were killed and five others injured in a car bombing …
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AT News KABUL: Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, the Chairman of High Council for National Reconciliation has expressed depression over ongoing peace talks in Doha, saying peace negotiations in Qatar “have no progress”. Addressing the Herat Security Dialogue on Friday, Abdullah said no decision has been made to call back the Afghan …
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AT News KABUL: More than 27 civilians have been killed and 60 others injured in Afghanistan in the past three days of violence, a watchdog said Wednesday. Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission reported 27 civilian casualties in 11 security incidents in Kabul, Kandahar, Paktia, Kunduz, Badghis, Zabul, Herat and Maidan …
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AT News KABUL: Four women were killed when a rocket fired by Taliban militants crashed their house in the southern province of Kandahar, provincial officials confirmed. The attack took place late Tuesday in the Zheray district’s village of Sang Hesar, a police officer said Wednesday, asking not to be named. …
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AT News KABUL: Khaterah, 33, decided to join the police force in the unsafe province of Ghazni even as her Taliban-affiliated father opposed the intention. Her father told his Taliban comrades and then they decided to punish her by taking her pupils out with knife and deprived her from seeing …
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AT News KABUL: The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) in a letter to President Ghani has vowed to help the Afghan government in the restoration of an ancient minaret in the city of Herat, presidential spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said on Wednesday. Sediqqi said that President Ghani last week instructed relevant …
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