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AT News KABUL: Russia says it wants Afghanistan to have a coalition transitional government. “When Taliban proclaim themselves the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, they claim to represent Afghanistan. Therefore, no other government is discussed. We recognize today’s Taliban as a military-political movement that is an inseparable part of Afghanistan,” said …

By Shamim Shahid KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai has held an important meeting with the NATO Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo, the NATO’s most senior civilian representative to Afghanistan in Kabul whereas they exchanged views on current situation, especially the peace process. Though details of such a meeting couldn’t made public but …

Kabul says targeting, killing civilians against human, Islamic values AT News KABUUL: Afghanistan has strongly condemned the killing of 13 innocent Turkish civilians by the terrorist PKK in northern Iraq. The Afghan Foreign Ministry in a statement said the targeting and killing of civilians are against humanity, as well as …

AT News KABUL: Sources in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have revealed that the military organization would continue military presence in Afghanistan after May when the United States is expected to withdraw its soldiers under a peace deal Washington signed last year with the Taliban. The sources who were …

32 human rights defenders and 33 media professionals were killed in three years, but 11 of them were just killed within four months as Afghanistan reels under daily violence, including targeted-killings, a UN report says AT News KABUL: The United Nations said at least 65 journalists and human rights activists …

AT News KABUL: General Boris Vsevolodovich Gromov crossed the Oxus River as the last Soviet troop to leave Afghanistan on February 14, 1989 and to end a nine-year of military invasion of Afghanistan. 13,000 of 100,000 Soviet soldiers serving in the Afghan war were killed and 35,000 others wounded and …

AT News KABUL: Defense Ministers of the NATO member countries are planned to meet this weeks to discuss the next part of their mission in Afghanistan, amid escalations in the country. NATO has presently 10,000 soldiers in Afghanistan who are busy in training and advising mission to the Afghan army …

AT News KABUL: A former jihadi leader says that the United States plans to retreat from a peace deal it signed last year with the Taliban militants, under which Washington is committed to withdraw all its forces from Afghanistan by May and end its longest war. Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who leads …

AT News KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani says that the Soviet Union withdrawal from Afghanistan was conducted in an irresponsible manner and that “no measure (scheme) was considered about the future”. Marking the 32 anniversary of Soviet Union withdrawal from Afghanistan, President Ghani cited the remarks in a video on Sunday. …

AT News KABUL: The State Ministry for Peace (SMP) convened a farewell meeting in honor of the valuable work of Huseyin Avni Botsali, ambassador of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Afghanistan. The meeting was attended by foreign diplomats, peace activists, representatives of the High Council for National Reconciliation …