World

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: As President Donald Trump tries to wind down America’s 18-year-old troop commitment in Afghanistan, a Pentagon watchdog is warning of the risks in leaving without significant financial pledges and protections for women under a government that would include the Taliban. From integrating 60,000 Taliban fighters into …

AT News Report KABUL: Afghanistan and Sri Lanka are to consider entering a prisoner exchange agreement to benefit both countries. This agreed after a meeting between Afghan Ambassador in Sri Lanka Ashraf Haidari, and the country’s Minister of Justice and Prison Reform Thalatha Athukorale. The Afghan Ambassador commended how the …

AT News Report KABUL: Social Council of Baloch tribes on Wednesday said that Pakistan began genocide of Balochs living there, where according to them, over 46,000 Baloch either killed or disappeared by Pakistani Military personnel. The members of Baloch Council said this in a meeting on the occasion of the …

AT News Report KABUL: Deputy Foreign Minister Idrees Zaman met with the US Deputy Chief of Mission to Kabul Karen Decker, where the talked over key issues, including the ongoing peace efforts with the Taliban. The Deputy Foreign Minister talked about the Third Kabul Process Meeting, the Consultative Loya Jirga …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: India is expected to supply four gunship helicopters to Afghanistan by July, with the deliveries falling almost a year behind schedule, people familiar with developments told Indian media on Tuesday. As first reported by Hindustan Times in March 2018, Afghanistan, Belarus and India had inked a …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The President of United States Donald Trump will not accept any bad deal with the Taliban about Afghanistan, said a Whitehouse official. According to the official, Trump will not accept any ignorance of the achievements, especially human rights and women rights, made in Afghanistan in the …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Washington is willing to host a two-day meeting between ZalmayKhalilzad the US special representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, and representatives from Russia, China and the European Union (EU), where they would shed lights over important Afghan issues according to the US Department for Foreign Affairs on Thursday. …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Germany’s parliament has granted a one-year extension of its military mandate for Afghanistan, allowing the country’s first major post-war troop deployment to continue until March 31, 2020. The approval allows Germany’s military, the Bundeswehr, which are mostly deployed in the north of Afghanistan, to keep up …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi denounced the recent attack by ISIS (Daesh) terrorists on Nowruz ceremonies in Kabul. Qasemi sympathized with Afghan government, people and the bereaved families of the victims of the inhuman act which resulted in killing and injuring defenseless and innocent people, …

AT-KABUL: The US forces and Resolute Support Mission say two American soldiers have been killed during an operation in Afghanistan on Friday. The US and NATO Resolute Support mission furthered the Americans were killed while conducting an operation on Friday, but did not provide further information about the exact location …