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AT News KABUL: The United Nations says Steve Brooking, Special Advisor and Director of Peace at the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), met Sunday with Taliban official Mullah Abdul Haq Wasiq in Qatar, where he expressed his concerns over the UN personnel security in the ongoing conflicts between the …

EMERGENCY’S SURGICAL CENTRE FOR WAR VICTIMS HAS RECEIVED DOZENS OF PATIENTS AND ADDED EXTRA BEDS. The Taliban offensive in Helmand province has led to fighting inside the city of Lashkar-Gah and an influx of patients to EMERGENCY’s Surgical Centre for War Victims in the city. “There has been very heavy …

AT News KABUL: Officials in the western province of Herat say that a great number of Taliban fighters were killed after the US air force targeted their positions around the provincial capital. Taliban launched massive attacks on Herat city, provincial capital of the same name on Thursday. They managed to …

AT News KABUL: A recent attack on the United Nations headquarters in Herat city on Friday has drawn global condemnations. The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) strongly condemned an attack in its main compound in the western Afghan province of Herat on Friday that left an Afghan police guard dead and other officers injured. Associate Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General, Eri Kaneko, …

AT News KABUL: As the withdrawal of US troops in well on track, the first group of interpreters and local assistants to the US Army has been evacuated from Afghanistan to the United States with their family members, according to reports on Friday. The group, which includes 2,500 people, will …

AT News KABUL: Free Media Support Organization, NAI, has called on the Afghan warring parties to protect media community. The media watchdog said in a statement on Friday that the Taliban fighters have purportedly raided the office of local radio station after they overrun the Dehraud district of southern Urozgan …

AT News KABUL: A batch of 124,000 doses of Astra Zeneca vaccine donated by the Swedish government has arrived in Kabul, the public health ministry said on Friday. The vaccination process will begin today (Saturday), according to the ministry. An official of the ministry, Dr. Dastagir Nazari, who was appointed …

AT News KABUL: About 95 percent of US troops have left Afghanistan, according to US Central Command. US Central Command said in a tweet on Tuesday evening that since the beginning of the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defense has withdrawn 984 C-17 aircrafts from Afghanistan …

AT News KABUL: Gen. David Petraeus, former commander of the US and NATO forces in Afghanistan joins the critics of troop withdrawal from Afghanistan and warns that the hastily decision made by the White House to withdraw soldiers after 20 years, would spark another civil war in the country already …

AT News KABUL: Russia’s Defense Minister says that the hasty withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan has led to an increase in terrorist activities in the region, calling for swift action to tackle this growing threat. “Surge in terrorist activity in Afghanistan in the wake of the hasty withdrawal of …