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AT Monitoring Desk-Puma helicopters deployed to Afghanistan have continued to operate ‘despite the challenges the aircrew face from the Afghan winter, snow and mountainous terrain’, say the Royal Air Force. Squadron Leader Max Bond, Officer Commanding the UK’s Theatre Aviation Detachment, said: “Operating the aircraft is always a challenge because …

AT-KABUL: The High Peace Council calls a meeting held by the International Contact Group on Afghanistan ‘hopeful and with achievements. The meeting was held on Thursday in London in which, from the Afghan government, Umer Daduzai, head of the council’s secretariat had attended. The US envoy for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad …

KABUL: The U.S. Department of Defense has said that peace negotiations between Washington and the Taliban are ‘encouraging’ but need more time to culminate into a substantial result. The U.S. acting defense secretary Patrick Shanahan on Tuesday said the negotiators should be given time, describing the talks as encouraging. “Now …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Moscow urges Washington to complete the probe into the US troops’ erroneous air strikes against civilians in Afghanistan and hold culprits liable, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a commentary circulated on Wednesday. Over the past week alone, the US indiscriminate air strikes in Afghanistan have killed about 35 …

AT-KABUL: The government of Indonesia has reaffirmed commitments for bringing peace to Afghanistan. Special Envoy of Vice President of Indonesia for Afghanistan, Mr. Hamid Awaluddin said this in talks with the Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani. Mr. Awaludin reaffirmed his country’s commitments for bringing peace to Afghanistan and expressed his country’s …

A-KABUL: Italy’s Foreign Minister said Tuesday that he is not informed of Defense Minister’s announcement over troop’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirms that it was never informed of the intentions of the Minister of Defence, Elisabetta Trenta, before she released a statement to the press on …

AT-KABUL: The exhibition, “National Treasure from Afghanistan,” has opened at the Hunan Museum in the central Chinese city of Changsha, the sixth site of its China tour, and will run until March 29, said Chinese embassy in Kabul on Tuesday. The exhibit showcases 231 sets of cultural artifacts from the …

KABUL: China hosted on Saturday an annual conference for the joint working group of the Quadrilateral Cooperation and Coordination Mechanism (QCCM) in counter terrorism by Afghanistan-China-Pakistan-Tajikistan Armed Forces and Militaries. The four parties reviewed their counter-terrorism cooperation efforts under the QCCM framework over the past year and agreed on the …

AT-KABUL: Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Sunday termed the recent negotiations between the United States and the Taliban as a “major diplomatic victory” and claimed his country played a vital role in bringing the Taliban leadership to the table.  Qureshi welcomed the development and highlighted the role played …

 AT-KABUL: The fourth round of meeting between the United States envoy for Afghanistan reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad with the Taliban group is at edge of yielding result as both sides would probably release a joint statement today (Saturday). Sources close to Taliban said Friday that the two sides were expected to …