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The Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) said on Thursday that a large number of ISIL terrorists had left Syria for Afghanistan this year. “Over 2,500 ISIL members redeployed to Afghan-Pakistani zone from Syria in 2018,” the AMN reported. The CSTO Joint Staff then said that most …

AT Monitoring Desk-The Manhattan Federal Court has sentenced two Afghans to 15 and 10 years in jail over conspiring to import heroin into United States, US attorney office district New York said in a statement on Tuesday. Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New …

AT Monitoring Desk-Without naming Islamabad, India has charged Pakistan with providing safe havens to the Taliban and other terror groups responsible for violence and destruction in Afghanistan. ‘’All of us know and believe that there is no military solution to the (Afghan) issue. Yet, the Taliban, aided by their supporters, …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Pakistan refuted the news that it has expressed readiness to talk on restoration of Afghanistan-India trade route using Pakistani’s land. “Pakistan has not agreed to consider Afghanistan-India trade through our land,” Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said. The rejection came after US said that Pakistan is …

In his book ‘Every day is extra’, Former United States Secretary of State John Kerry touts former Afghan President Hamid Karzai as a shrewd and calculating President. He says, “Karzai was shrewd and calculating. He was going to make the next Afghan government own the status of forces agreement for …

Trust levels on election commissions have dampened, said ex-IEC chief, amid large-scale fraudulence and rigging in the election process. Najib Ahmadzai said the ongoing security debacle and a widening distrust on election commissions will cause an election disaster and prompt a drastically low turnout. He demanded the election process be …

Anger is boiling against the bilateral partnership treaty with the U.S. amid escalating insurgency and violence as civil activists are sticking to their guns regarding the revoking of the crucial security pact. Civil activists in a press conference demanded the Bilateral Security Agreement be revised or revoked, ‘because on one …

AT-MAZAR: The terrible impact of the Afghan war on its civilians was the focus of this week’s 2018 Mazar Short Film Festival. Supported by UNAMA, the festival showcased the work of film-makers from Balkh province. The films, of up to six minutes in length, looked at the many different ways …

AT Monitoring Desk-Afghanistan’s drawn-out conflict could be deadlier in 2018 than the war in Syria, experts have warned. Despite the violence in Afghanistan seemingly appearing less frequently in the media, 17 years after the US-led invasion, the country’s conflict could prove the deadliest in the world this year in terms …

AT Monitoring Desk-A $280 million U.S. program, created to help empower women in Afghanistan, has been a “failure and a waste of taxpayers’ money,” according to government oversight group Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR). USAID’s program, Promote, was expected to help 75,000 Afghan women enter the workforce. The …