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AT News Report-KABUL: Tens of clerics and elders in the southern province of Helmand demanded the withdrawal of the foreign soldiers from Afghanistan. They believe that the foreign forces prolong the war in Afghanistan and the war would continue unless the foreign countries pull their troops back. They are concerned …

AT News Report-KABUL: At least 138 soldiers were killed in Friday afternoon’s attack on the Afghan National Army’s 209th Shaheen Corps Headquarters in northern Balkh province, a well-placed source within the Corps told Afghanistan Times at condition of anonymity. He added that 64 others were received deep injuries in a …

Report by Insan Magazine: Mashal Khan, a young man from Mardan, was brutally killed in Khan Abdul Wali Khan University based on allegations of blasphemy. The current realities are not in favor of enlightened intellectuals and progressive thinkers on either side of the Durand Line; non-state actors, supportive of terrorist …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: At least 17 Taliban insurgents, including two notorious commanders, were killed in separate clashes with security forces in southern Ghazni province, an official said on Saturday. Police Chief Brig. Gen. Aminullah Amarkhel told Pajhwok Afghan News that a clearing operation was launched few days back in Mangur, …

AT News Report-KABUL: The association of the Afghan youth declared support to the former president Hamid Karzai for his remarks against the US aerial attack. Karzai was the first Afghan who criticized the drop of the world’s biggest bomb by the United States military on April 13, in the Achin …

AT News Report-KABUL: A large number of elders from Uruzgan province have supported the voice of former President Hamid Karzai against the war crimes of US forces by dropping biggest bomb, and emphasized on unity for complete withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan. The elders have been endorsed former President …

AT News Report-KABUL: The drop of the biggest non-nuclear bomb was not on the Islamic State (IS), which is also known as Daesh terrorist, but it was a test of mass destruction weapon to show the US rivals, a former high ranking governmental official said. Former National Security Advisor, Dr. …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: There was a surge in 2009, where the United States has send thousands of new troops to Afghanistan, and US officials said that this is going to be very much successfully, and finally they were pulled out in 2012, and the then Defense Secretary, Leon Panetta, said …

KABUL AND WASHINGTON: Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai called the Islamic State terror group a “tool” of the United States, and dismissed criticism of Russia for its ties with Taliban and efforts to bring the militant group into peace talks. “After it [the U.S.] dropped the bomb on Afghanistan, it …

AT News Report-KABUL: Candlelight vigils in memory of Mashal Khan have been organized in various provinces of Afghanistan, including Kabul, Khost, Jalalabad and Mazar Sharif, attended by a large number of politicians, civil society members, government officials and activists. Talking to a gathering here at Kabul, acting minister for borders …