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AT Monitoring Desk-WASHINGTON: The United States Friday told the UN Security Council that the status quo regarding continues terrorist safe havens in Pakistan was not acceptable and insisted that Islamabad join its efforts to bring a resolution to the conflict. “We seek to work cohesively and effectively with Pakistan, but …

AT News Report-KABUL: The threats of violent extremism and transnational organized crime in Afghanistan reverberate across Central Asia and the world and countering them cannot be the responsibility of one country alone, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said Friday, urging regional and multilateral cooperation, based firmly on human rights. “Regional …

AT News Report-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) has carried out a raid in northern Kunduz province and defused a terror act after arresting a suspect suicide bomber. The Taliban member was identified as Qari Mohammad Sadiq was held along with explosives materials According to the statement, the NDS …

AT News Report-KABUL: The ousted Balkh governor, Atta Mohammad Noor attacked the National Unity Government, saying it operates in contravention of the country’s constitution, while calling on foreign countries to restrain from interfering into internal affairs. During briefing to his supporters in Mazar-e-Sharif on Saturday, he once again called on …

AT News Report-KABUL: Anti-drugs campaign in southern Helmand province has been underway, resulting in destroying a number of Taliban owned drugs labs, but dozens of dozen drugs factories and traffickers are still operating in the province, Ariana News has reported. According to the provincial administration of Helmand province, anti-drugs operation …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Uzbekistan and Afghanistan have come forward with a joint initiative to hold an international ministerial conference titled “Afghanistan – path to a peaceful future” in Tashkent in late March 2018, Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov said at the debates on Central Asia and Afghanistan in the UN …

KABUL- At least six civilians including a foreign national were killed and seven more injured in the terrorist attack on Kabul’s Intercontinental Hotel which ended after several hours of fighting, in which four terrorists were killed by the Afghan forces, officials said. The attack which began Saturday at 10:00pm ended …

AT News Report-KABUL: The Norwegian parliament’s decision on Thursday to reject a proposal to place a temporary halt on returning people to Afghanistan is a devastating blow to Afghan asylum-seekers in Norway, and demonstrates a disturbing disregard for the lives of people fleeing war and persecution, Amnesty International said in …

AT News Report-KABUL: At least five member of the notorious al-Qaeda terrorist network have been killed in a special operation carried out by the brave Afghan security forces in eastern Nangarhar province, the provincial media office said in a statement on Friday. The operation was conducted in Shirzad district, in …