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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 …

AT News Report KABUL:  Chinese ambassador to Afghanistan Liu Jinsong held talks with Nasir Ahmad Andisha, Afghanistan’s deputy foreign minister, where he greeted Andisha Afghan New Year and congratulated him on being appointed as the head of the Embassy and Permanent Mission of Afghanistan to the UN Office in Geneva. …

The seven Indian engineers were kidnapped by Taliban militants in the restive northern Baghlan province on May 6 last year. India has been requesting the Afghan government to secure release of the Indians. AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Ten months after being kidnapped in Afghanistan’s Baghlan province, one of the seven Indians …

AT News Report KABUL: Chinese Ambassador Liu Jinsong met with a team of Afghan politicians from various political parties who had recently visited China at the embassy. Liu congratulated them on their productive trip, citing a Chinese proverb “it is better to see once than hear a hundred times”. Only …

AT News Report KABUL: The government of Indonesia on Friday lends support to the Afghan-owned and Afghan-led peace and reconciliation process, and expressed readiness to facilitate intra-Afghan peace talks, a joint statement said. Afghan Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani’s visit Jakarta, the Indonesian capital in invitation extended by his Indonesian counterpart …