AT News Report KABUL: At least 29 militants have been killed and eight others wounded during air and ground raids conducted in southern Ghazni and Paktia provinces in the past 24 hours, military officials said Saturday. 203 Thunder Corps in a statement said that 20 insurgents, including five Panjabi terrorists …
Read More »Afghan security forces kill 61 Taliban rebels in Kandahar
AT News Report KABUL: At least 61 Taliban fighters have been killed and 35 others received injures during in an overnight crackdown conducted by Afghan security forces in southern Kandahar province, security official said Saturday. Ministry of Interior said these militants were killed and wounded during a joint clearance overnight …
Read More »A man arrested before to kill US soldiers in Afghanistan
AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: A New York man who planned to join the Taliban in Afghanistan and kill American forces was arrested at the JFK Airport, foreign media reported, quoting federal officials. Delowar Mohammed Hossain, 33, of the Bronx, is charged with attempting to provide material support for acts of …
Read More »EU sees economic integration, connectivity key to Afghan peace
AT News Report KABUL: The European Union delegations in Kabul and private sectors plus Afghan government officials attended a meeting on the “Advancing Afghan Trade, project that has been facilitated by International Trade Center. The project is EU-funded initiative, launched in November 2016 which aims to strengthen the country’s …
Read More »BRICS Ministers reiterate support to Afghan-owned peace process
AT News Report KABUL: Representatives of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa have reiterated support to the Afghan-owned and Afghan-led peace and reconciliation process—an effort which is underway for a political settlement to Afghan conflict through negotiations with Taliban members. Ministers of the BRICS countries gathered in Rio …
Read More »Scores of police killed, injured in Taliban attacks in Takhar
AT News Report KABUL: Officials in the northeastern province of Takhar say that Taliban fighters attacked to police checkpoints, killing 16 officers and wounding four others. But the provincial council rejects the information, saying 32 officers were killed and seven injured in the attacks carried out in the Eshkamesh district. …
Read More »Extremist groups use universities as recruitment centers
AT News Report KABUL: The extremist groups have recently focused on the universities across the country as good places for propaganda and recruitment the youth, university students say. The faculties of law and theologies are considered as main brainwashing centers for the extremist groups. Basira Akhtar, a student at the …
Read More »Work on Aqina-Andkhoi railway kicks off in Faryab
AT News Report KABUL: The Acting Minister of Transportation on Friday launched work on the construction of Aqina-Andkhoi railway during a ceremony in the northern Faryab province. Minister Yama Yari said the 30-kilometer railway would connect Afghan Aqina port with Andkhoi of Turkmenistan, adding the project would cost a total …
Read More »President Trump, we are the Pamirs! You can’t wipe out “The Roof of the World”
AT News Report KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai in reaction to the US President Donald Trump’s nasty statements on wiping Afghanistan off the face of the earth, said, “President Trump, We are the Pamirs! You can’t wipe out “The Roof of the World.” Moreover, he called on the Afghan to …
Read More »Trump’s wiping out Afghanistan remarks a ‘propagandist rhetoric’: Moscow
AT News Report KABUL: Reacting to the recent remarks made by US President Trump to wipe out Afghanistan, the Russian Embassy in Kabul in a statement on Friday slammed them as ‘propagandist rhetoric’. It also blasted some Afghan political pundits who believe the current misery has been an unending cycle …
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