AT-KABUL: Some 13 security personnel were killed and four others injured after the Taliban militants attacked the Arghandab district of southern Kandahar province, local authorities said Sunday. Among the dead, were two Afghan Local Police (ALP) commanders, the source said, adding the Taliban also suffered casualties in the firefight. Police …
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AT-KABUL: The Intelligence operatives discovered and confiscated 7800kg ammonium nitrite in Torkhambeing smuggled from Pakistan to be used for subversive terrorist activities in eastern Nangarhar province, said officials. Afghan intelligence operatives succeeded to discover and seize 7800kg ammonium nitrite during an special operation in Torkham area related to Momand Dara …
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AT News Report-KABUL: Some seventeen army soldiers were killed and another was wounded after Taliban militants stormed several security checkpoints in Zawol district of Herat province, local officials said Saturday. Insurgentattacked security checkpoints in Aziz Abad area of the Zawol district late on Friday night, killing seventeen soldiers of Afghan …
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AT News Report-KABUL: After the militant Taliban reciprocated an Afghan government’s cease-fire offer, former president Hamid Karzai has welcomed a Taliban’s temporary truce to be effective during the days of Eid al Fitr. He declared his full support to this move, hoping an extension of this ceasefire would pave the …
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AT News Report-KABUL: At least 53 Taliban militants were killed and 29 others wounded in clearance operations conducted by Afghan army forces in southern Ghazni province during past two days. The operations were backed up by air forces. Afghan army forces conducted clearance operations in Andarab, Abban and Khwaja Omari …
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AT News Report-KABUL: The voter registration papers have been finished in 13 registration centers in the southern province of Kandahar. The provincial office of the election commission said Saturday that the papers finished last week and they are waiting for fresh papers from the capital that have not yet arrived. …
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AT News Report-KABUL: Regarding the prospect of Taliban ceasefire, a member of senate says he is optimistic to imminent peace following the US announcement over holding talks to the Taliban representatives. Asef Seddiqi, deputy head of senate, said Saturday that ceasefire from the government and Taliban as well as the …
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AT News Report-KABUL: The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has welcomed the Taliban’s announcement that partially reciprocates the Afghan government’s temporary ceasefire, the agency said in a statement on Saturday. On 7 June, President Ashraf Ghani detailed the government’s ceasefire, which he indicated will start on the 27th …
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AT-KABUL: The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) welcomed the announcement made by the Government of Afghanistan for a temporary ceasefire with the Taliban, the agency said in a statement. Citing calls by more than 2,000 religious scholars gathered this week in Kabul to denounce the ongoing war and …
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AT-KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai has put weight behind cease-fire decision announced by the National Unity Government, asking the Taliban to honor the step. “I am in full support of the declaration of cease-fire by the government with the Taliban for peace in Afghanistan,” the ex-president was quoted as saying, …
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