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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director Mike Pompeo has said meaningful action has to be taken against the financial resources of Taliban as the group has been generating funds from the drug trafficking and opium production. Addressing to the American Enterprise Institute, the CIA director said …

AT-KABUL: Taliban and Daesh terrorist groups extract crude oil from an oil well in the northern Sar-e-Pul province, using it as a financial source to fight the security forces, a provincial official said. Sar-e-Pul has several oil wells such as Angoot, Qashqari, and Tapa Zar, lying in the provincial capital …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Security forces have taken control over Pakistan-made explosive materials, planted in a vehicle that dropped three insurgents in the premises of the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul, officials claimed on Wednesday. While speaking on the condition to be unidentified, a security official, quoted by Pajhwok Afghan News, as …

AT-KABUL: The initial report of the Intercontinental hotel attack was delivered to President Ashraf Ghani, president’s spokesman said. A group of armed men stormed the landmark hotel in the weekend. The Taliban-claimed attack lasted for more than 14 hours in which, at least 22 people including 14 foreigners were killed …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: At least five people were killed and 26 others wounded on Wednesday in a coordinated attack on the office of ‘Save the Children’ in eastern Nangarhar province. “First a car bomber detonated the explosives in front of the Save the Children office in Jalalabad city of Nangarhar …

AT-KABUL: At least 65 militants were killed and 43 others wounded in different crackdowns within past 24 hours. In a press release issued here, Ministry of Defense, (MoD) said that Afghan National Army (ANA) in collaboration with Afghan National Police (ANP) and National Directorate of Security (NDS) personal has conducted …

AT-KABUL: Vice president of New Front of Afghanistan political party and former deputy minister of higher education, ministry Sadiq Patman claimed the Unity Government is not willing to hold transparent electoral process in the country and the Election Commission has not required capability. Patman, as a keynote speaker made the …

AT-KABUL: Interior minister said Tuesday that initial investigations show that the attackers on the Intercontinental Hotel knew different parts of the luxury hotel. “Sure, they were previously in the hotel and knew different parts of it. They also knew who was staying there,” Wais Ahmad Barmak said, adding that still …

AT-KABUL: The governor for the western province of Farah warned that Taliban group plans to change the volatile province into its base, however, he assured that the militant group could not fulfill the plan. Farah residents are worrying about the future of the province as the militants have intensified attacks …

AT-KABUL: At least 113 militants were killed and 36 others were wounded in different crackdowns within past 24 hours. In a press release issued here, Ministry of Defense, (MoD) said that Afghan National Army (ANA) in collaboration with Afghan National Police (ANP) and National Directorate of Security (NDS) personal has …