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AT News Report-KABUL: Afghanistan’s interior ministry has declared that police forces will discontinue any field missions for the Afghan police in the battlegrounds and rather guard and protect civilian within the main cities. A spokesperson to the interior ministry has said a lot of police forces are engaged in fighting …

AT-KABUL: In the wake of massive-scale security operations across the country in recent day, at least 29 militants belonging to various insurgent outfits have been killed and as many as 23 more terrorists sustained serious injuries. In a press release issued, the defense ministry said the Afghan army in collaboration …

AT-KABUL: Decrying the recent countrywide surge in insecurity, Afghanistan’s Parliament summoned on Wednesday high-ranking security brass for an interpellation motion. Ministers of Defense and Interior as well as the Intelligence Directorate Chief were summoned to the parliament to respond to the questions arisen by lawmakers concerning a countrywide deterioration of …

AT-KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani met foreign minister of Russia Sergei Lavrov, Tuesday afternoon on the sidelines of the Tashkent Conference, where both sides shed lights over important issues. The two sides talked over the successful convening of the Kabul Process, the peace process and the Tashkent Conference on Afghanistan, the …

AT-KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani held meeting with the British special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan Gareth Bayley on Tuesday morning on the sidelines of the Tashkent Conference on Afghanistan, in which key issues were disused, a statement from president office said. Both sides talked about the British assistance to Afghanistan, …

AT-KABUL: Up to 7,500 people infected by AIDS syndrome have been registered in Afghanistan, the public health ministry said. “Migrations to abroad and the low level of education are the major reasons of the HIV virus spread,” said Ferozuddin Feroz, public health minister. “Thus, we need to use elite people …

AT-KABUL: People in the northern province of Jawzjan are worried of what they call the increasing presence of foreign fighters affiliated to Daesh terrorist group there. “Right now, there are 600 Daesh fighters in Darzab district most of them foreign nationals. They are launching attacks on the army and police …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Terming the international conference on peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan a very successful, Chinese foreign ministry’s spokesperson Wednesday said the international community should do more to help Afghanistan achieve national reconciliation, cope with terrorism and drug smuggling. “This Tashkent high level meeting was held very successfully,” Lu …

AT-KABUL: The government of Afghanistan seems optimistic about Russia’s offer to hold a meeting with the representatives of the two countries and the United States. The chief executive office said Wednesday that the meeting would help Afghanistan turn to a cooperation point of the two rival powers (the US and …

AT-KABUL: The senate voiced support from a peace move held by the youth and women in the southern province of Helmand, emphasizing on a national consensus for peace. A number of youth and women organized a sit tent in protest of the Friday’s suicide attack in a stadium in the …