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AT-KABUL: The Taliban group has once again rejected to hold talks with the US official on Afghan peace set for today (Wednesday), just after flinching to take part in anther peace talks in Jeddah of Saudi Arabia. The Afghan Taliban said they had called off peace talks with U.S. officials …

AT-KABUL: Amid a war on drugs, the country’s top counternarcotics court has sentenced 21 drug traffickers to prison in the past one week. They sent behind bars for short and long-term incarceration. Criminal Justice Takes Force (CJTF) on Tuesday said that its primary and appellate courts have convicted 21 drug …

AT-KABUL: With new defense minister at office and strategy change in fighting ground, the anti-Taliban winter operations have taken heavy toll on the Taliban insurgents as 49 of its fighters were killed Tuesday, while 97 other on Monday, a totally of (146) death casualties within a week. 97 Taliban insurgents …

 AT-KABUL: Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Idrees Zaman on Monday met with Special Representative of the UN Secretary General (UNSRSG) Ambassador Tadamichi Yammoto, where they discussed important issues, including the upcoming 3rd meeting of the Kabul Process. The two sides discussed and exchanged views on the agenda, participation and …

KABUL: Members of parliament are worried about the security in the provinces of Ghor, Ghazni and Badghis, calling on the government to be serious in ensuring security. They claimed on Monday that armed opposition groups have recently received modern and sophisticated weapons in these three provinces and have inflicted casualties …

KABUL: Police authorities said Monday that firearms and ammunition have been seized in an operation targeting terrorist cells in Kabul city. Kabul police have discovered and confiscated one AK-47 rifles, four boxes of PK bullets, three boxes of AK-47 bullets, three boxes of RPGs and one box of grenade launcher …

KABUL: Afghan security forces discovered and busted two huge drug labs in eastern Nangarhar province, said officials. Two big narcotic labs were busted and drugs set ablaze in Shinwar district of Nangarhar, said Governor Spokesman Attaullah Khogyani. He said that 60 sacks of opium with some other materials discovered from …

KABUL: Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) said on Monday it has funded the treatment of 1,742 patients with heart disease in 2018. ARCS has treated 1742 children with disease of hole in heart inside the country and in abroad, which reveal 60 percent increase in treatment. Last year 1200 children …

KABUL: The High Peace Council says the place for holding peace talks is not important, but this is important to hold it between Taliban and the government of Afghanistan. Sayed Ehsan Taheri, a spokesman of the council said Monday that no person, entity or country could not make decision on …

AT-KABUL: Anti-Taliban operation has been continuing infinitely with leaving mass-scale casualties on the part of the extremist group in southern Kandahar province, security officials said Monday.   At least 97 Taliban have been killed in the ongoing operations conducted in Shah Wali Kot district by the Afghan forces along with Resolute …