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AT News Report KABUL: The electoral observers warn that any postponement in the announcement of the presidential election’s preliminary results could cause political crisis. The preliminary results of the September 28 presidential election was scheduled to be announced on October 19, but the independent election commission failed to announce it …

AT News Report KABUL: The members of parliament claim that peace leadership is held by individuals whose families are in abroad, referring to some members of the high peace council as well as officials in the state ministry for peace. The lawmakers said in the parliament’s Monday session that the …

AT News Report KABUL: Over 350,000 people have been displaced by conflict across war-torn Afghanistan during the current year so far, says the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). According to the OCHA’s data, overall, 354,664 people were displaced in 31 of the total of 34 provinces …

AT News Report KABUL: At least two construction workers have embraced martyrdom and five others received injuries after a mine detonated in an under construction school in Kot district of eastern Nangarhar province on Monday, official said. A mine placed by the enemy went off in a school, in which …

AT News Report KABUL: A number of Afghan politicians are believing that efforts of the U.S. Special Envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad to achieve political settlement is moving very slow. Khalilzad was in Kabul recently, and held meetings with top Afghan officials to discuss the Afghan peace process. He …

AT News Report KABUL: Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah on Monday has said that people expect the Independent Election Commission (IEC) to announce the result of presidential election based of clean votes. Addressing council of ministers’ session, Abdullah said “we are at the doorsill of assessment of election votes, so we …

AT News Report KABUL: At least 63 militants were killed and 19 others wounded in multiple extensive military crackdowns carried out by the Afghan security forces across the country in the past 24 hours, security officials said on Monday. Ministry of Defense in a statement said the Afghan National Army …

By Mansoor Faizy The Islamic State (IS), which is also known as Daesh extremist group in Afghanistan, is said to have control some 88,000 sq km of territory stretching from western Syria to eastern Iraq that has imposed its brutal rule on almost eight million people there. Moreover, the group …

By Mansoor Faizy The Islamic State (IS), which is also known as Daesh extremist group in Afghanistan, is said to have control some 88,000 sq km of territory stretching from western Syria to eastern Iraq that has imposed its brutal rule on almost eight million people there. Moreover, the group …

Ahmad Shah Katawazai After a month-long thaw starting from last September, the Afghan peace process has now started to gain some momentum. United States Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad met with President Ashraf Ghani in Kabul yesterday to discuss the future of peace talks with the Taliban. On …