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AT News Report KABUL: A special report released Tuesday by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) describes the severe impact of election-related violence on civilians, mainly coming from the Taliban’s deliberate campaign of violence and intimidation to disrupt Afghanistan’s presidential election. UNAMA’s findings indicated that attacks targeting the electoral …

AT News Report KABUL: A number of the capital residents say that the increasing target murders were a matter of concern. Several government officials including the police chief for the Jaghatoo district of Wardak province were assassinated this week by unknown gunmen in Kabul city’s Police District 11. The Kabul …

AT News Report KABUL: The members of senate sent Monday the cases of some government officials they consider corrupt to the attorney general office. The senate’s commission for public complaints said that officials from the ministries of finance, foreign affairs, higher education, commerce and agriculture, who were blamed for making …

AT News Report KABUL: In a meeting with President Ashraf Ghani, NATO top commander in Afghanistan, General Scott Miller has said that the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) have beaten the militants and killed key terrorist members recently across the country. In a statement the presidential palace said …

AT News Report KABUL: A five day extended sub-national immunization campaign for polio eradication kicked off on Monday, which will target over 8.5 million children under five years of age in 324 districts across the country. The campaign is launched in most of the places where limited children were reached …

This year, we count 30 years from the date of withdrawal of the Soviet troops from Afghanistan. For a generation of Russians, this our southern neighbor [Afghanistan] has been a nightmare — but today it has suddenly become one of Moscow’s main allies on the southern flank. And it remains …

AT News Report KABUL: At least 46 militants were killed and 15 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 Monday. Ministry of Defense in a statement said the Afghan National Army (ANA) …

AT News Report KABUL: A Daesh or so-called IS-K commander has been detained during operation carried out by the Afghan security forces in eastern Nangarhar province, official said on Monday. The commander was arrested during a clearance operation conducted in Bati Kot district, said a statement issued by Nanagarhar Press …

AT News Report KABUL: The Kabul Police on Monday said they have removed black films and tint from 100 vehicles and confiscated some illegal weapons during operations in different parts of Kabul city. Kabul police in joint venture with other national security forces had conducted joint operation against tented window …

AT News Report KABUL: The ministry of interior says that 90 out of 250 members of parliament are not using weapons given by police for their protection, adding they didn’t know the source who supplied them the arms. The ministry said on Sunday that it had given 837 weapons to …