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AT News KABUL: Tajikistan has deployed 20,000 soldiers along the border with Afghanistan as Taliban insurgents have made advances in the north and northeastern areas especially in Kunduz, Takhar and Badakhshan provinces which are bordering the Central Asian state. Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon who is also commander-in-chief of the country’s …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said he would discuss with his U.S. counterpart Lloyd Austin on Wednesday a plan for Turkey to operate and guard Kabul’s Hamid Karzai airport after the NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan, adding there was no final decision yet, Reuters reported on Tuesday. …

AT News KABUL: The United Nations calls on the Afghan parties to begin “real peace negotiations” and give priority to the talks.  Deborah Lyons, the UN chief’s special representative in Afghanistan and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) in a visit to Qatar accelerated efforts to …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The first group of Afghans to be granted asylum for their work with the German military has arrived in Germany, according to Der Spiegel. They are fleeing the Taliban who consider them “traitors.” The first six members of Afghan personnel, who worked with the German military …

AT News KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai called on the regional powers to pay serious attention to the situation in Afghanistan, saying that the country was in a critical situation. Karzai cited the remarks in an online conference hosted by the Xinhua University of China at the World Peace Forum …

My view is that there was no terrorism in Afghanistan, and no extremism in Afghanistan, Former President Hamid Karzai told The Hindu. As the U.S. quickens the pace of its troops pull out, and talks in Doha hit an impasse, Former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, who is still seen as a …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan government is seeking to forge a new government in alliance with Taliban and other stakeholders, said president’s security advisor on Monday – a power-sharing move that could assuage growing fears about resurgence of the militants. Hamdullah Mohib, security adviser to President Ghani, has said that Kabul …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Russia is concerned about the developments in Afghanistan’s border regions after the withdrawal of US troops from there, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday. “Of course, after the Americans and their allies pull out of Afghanistan, the situation in that country is a matter of …

AT News KABUL: More than 1,000 Afghan soldiers have deserted their posts in the northeastern province of Badakhshan, entering the neighboring Tajikistan, Tajik officials said, as battle with the Taliban militants is unprecedentedly intensifying in the mountainous province which is bordering Tajikistan, China and Pakistan. Taliban fighters have gained more …

AT News KABUL: Taliban have called on the foreign countries who have military presence in Afghanistan to leave their soldiers, threatening that any of these states that would keep soldiers beyond September 11, would be treated as “invaders force”. Suhail Shahin, a member of Taliban’s negotiating team, said Monday that …