AT News KABUL: Amid escalating violence across the country, the government has appoints new police chiefs for 100 districts in 29 provinces as part of plans to ramp up security. During an introduction ceremony on Saturday, President Ghani said the new police appointments will help boost law enforcement and police …
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AT News KABUL: The ministry of public health said that wearing masks would be compulsory in crowded areas and government departments. This comes as the Afghan officials in a recent event of the Afghanistan Football Premier League didn’t wear masks. The acting minister of the public health was also among …
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AT News KABUL: A recent string of militant attacks on the Helmand province and the fighting which entered its 11th day has given the Afghan government’s negotiating team the jitters, prompting their scorns for the group’s ‘sabre-rattling’. The Afghan delegates say the Taliban attacks on Helmand and Badakhshan have impinged …
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AT News KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai strongly condemned a terrorist attack in the central province of Ghor that left tens of civilians dead and injured. At least 13 people were killed and nearly 100 more wounded in Sunday attack. Karzai denounced the attack as an oppressive act that shows …
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Civilians are in dire straits amid a cascade of insurgent attacks across the country. It seems peace talks buoyed the Taliban and ceded them unbridled liberty to do the opposite of what they had to By Farhad Naibkhel KABUL: At least 13 people, mostly civilians, were killed and 100 others …
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AT News KABUL: The US forces in Afghanistan brushed off reports that they are demolishing the Bagram airbase amid a hasty withdrawal of American troops from the country. “We have not destroyed any part of Bagram,” US Forces Spokesman Col Sonny Leggett told Afghanistan Times. The base, located in Bagram …
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AT News KABUL: The Taliban rebels have overrun some parts of Faizabad, the capital city of northern Badakhshan province after several days of rigorous fighting which is still underway. Provincial Police Spokesman, Sanaullah Rohani said that security forces have retreated from PD 8th of Faizabad after a couple days of …
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AT News KABUL: The Taliban and the US have been incriminating each other for violating their historic peace agreement signed in February amid a cascade of militant attacks and US airstrikes in southern Helmand province. The US forces in a rare incident carried out several airstrikes in Helmand to help …
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AT News KABUL: First Vice President Amrullah Saleh has warned to confiscate all the vehicles without documents, arguing that such vehicles make problems for detecting criminals. “Pay your taxes and legalize your cars, or your cars will be at police service,” Saleh wrote on Facebook Sunday.He called it an emergency …
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AT News KABUL: More than 300 Taliban rebels including their commanders have been killed in the fighting that has gripped Lashkargah city in southern Helmand province since early last week, Governor said on Saturday. The Taliban have been pushed back from the outskirts of Lashkargah city after a week of …
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