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AT News Report-KABUL: Kandahar’s Provincial Council warns that formation of an interim government is the only way out of the ongoing crisis. In a large gathering held Saturday in Kandahar city, people and their representatives in the provincial council expressed concern of the continuation of the current worsening situation particularly …

AT News Report-KABUL: The High Peace Council welcomes statement by the Prophet mosque (Masjid Nabawi), calling his support of the peace talks in Afghanistan effective. Mohammad Amin Waqad, member of the council’s leading board, said that the statement showed those groups claiming to be Muslims should talk and not fight. …

AT News Report-KABUL: A member of senate claims that the situation in Afghanistan is turning to a peaceful direction, saying that the American security company, Black Water could help and be useful. Hashem Alokozai, said Saturday that the Black Water’s interference and pouring more soldiers into the country, would turn …

AT News Report-KABUL: With the innumerable endeavors of police forces to locate and capture rebels in different parts of the country, police officers in southeastern Ghazni province have arrested a senior leader of Islamic State (IS), also known as Daesh extremist, and a Taliban insurgent’s propagandist in southern district of …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: NATO says its military presence in Afghanistan is aimed at helping the local forces to pressurise the Taliban into coming to the negotiating table. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters in Brussels the alliance had been able to hand over responsibility for security to the Afghans …

AT-KABUL: Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah has said that he has no problem with the return of the first vice president Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum from exile. Following accusations of rape and torture by a political rival Ahmad Ischi, Dostum left Kabul for Turkey in May 2017 and has since been …

AT-KABUL: According to a media watchdog, violence against journalists has seen a 30 percent rise as thirteen journalists have been killed due to unrest and violence since late March in Afghanistan. Chief NAI advocacy group Abdul Mujib Khilwatgar said on Thursday in Kabul that 13 journalists had been killed since …

AT-KABUL: A military ground and aerial operation and an ensuing clash reportedly killed at least 20 civilians and 26 Taliban-affiliated militants in Zurmat district of southeastern Paktia province, residents said on Friday. Ground-based troops and airborne forces carried out an offensive in Sahak area on Thursday and went on hours-long …

AT-KABUL: Fierce anti-government and pro-Dostum protests that began with the arrest of Faryab’s Qaisar police chief days ago have spread across the north, as hundreds of protesters shut down on Friday provincial office of the Independent Election Commission. Nizamuddin Qaisari, a close aide to the exiled First Vice President Abdul …

BY ASHISH KUMAR SEN-President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai (right) speaks with Kevin Baron of Defense One (left seated) at the NATO Engages event in Brussels on July 12 Unlike in the past, there is now a “real” and “constructive” dialogue on bringing peace to Afghanistan and this effort …