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AT News KABUL: NATO is working with several allies including Turkey to run and function Kabul Airport after the foreign troops pullout, head of the organization said on Friday. NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg said that Ankara “is today a key ally when it comes” running the airport. This comes …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The Taliban group opposed Turkey for guarding the Kabul Airport, saying that Ankara should exit pullout troops from Afghanistan under the 2020 deal signed between the U.S. and insurgents for the pullout of American forces. The development raises serious questions for the United States, other countries …

AT News KABUL: Negotiating delegations of the Afghan government and the Taliban have agreed to speed up the peace talks in Doha. Najiya Anwari, a spokeswoman for the Afghan Ministry of Peace, told reporters on Wednesday that the leaders and members of the two delegations met in Doha on Tuesday …

AT News KABUL: As the United States is withdrawing from Afghanistan, President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that U.S. government ‘will not take its eye off the terrorist threat in Afghanistan.” In a letter to congressional committees, Biden vowed that the U.S. “will recognize its counterterrorism capabilities and assets in …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Pakistan’s foreign minister confirmed that his country refused to give any military base to the U.S. for monitoring Afghanistan after foreign forces’ withdrawal from Kabul, local media reported on Tuesday. Speaking to Geo News, a Pakistani broadcaster, Shah Mahmood Qureshi said his government, led by Prime …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL:  The U.S. has completed over 50 percent of Afghan withdrawal as the American officials said that the exit would be completed by July 4 while they also work on plans for securing the U.S. embassy in Kabul. The Associated Press says that as early as this …

AT News KABUL: The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mohammad Haneef Atmar met with the US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Dr. Zalmay Khalilzad and his accompanying delegation, where they discussed issues surrounding the Afghan peace process. During the meeting that took place on Monday, which was also attended by the …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Australia’s most decorated Afghanistan veteran will deny alleged war crimes Monday at the start of his high-stakes defamation trial against one of the country’s biggest media companies. Ben Roberts-Smith will seek to prove he was unfairly portrayed in newspaper stories as having broken the moral and legal rules of war. He is seeking damages in Australia’s Federal Court from …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Turkey can keep its troops in Afghanistan only if political, financial and logistic support is provided by the allies, as NATO prepares to withdraw from the country, the country’s Defense  Minister, Hulusi Akar, daily Hürriyet reported on Monday. Ankara has conducted talks with the U.S. on the issue, …

According to a United Nations report, the group’s elusive leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri is “probably alive but too frail to be featured in propaganda.” AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: A significant part of the Al-Qaeda leadership resides in the Afghanistan and Pakistan region, including the group’s elusive leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, who is …