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An unbridled crescendo of territorial losses to the Taliban and a fractured peace is a brutal reality check of how frail our country is after decades of American military engagement – all hinting at peril of a full-blown civil war looming over Afghanistan. It is a folly to ignore the …

AT News KABUL: Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, says his country was ready to take responsibility for the Kabul international airport’s security, a mission demanded by the United States after their military withdrawal. Cavusoglu has stated this in a meeting with Afghan foreign minister Hanif Atmar, in which the Turkish …

Terrorist groups are still ‘deeply embedded’ with Taliban –  involved in drug and arms trade and raking in millions of dollars – fomenting fears that Afghanistan could become a terrorist sanctuary after U.S. departs AT News KABUL: Al-Qaeda is still active in a third of Afghanistan, in spite of a …

AT News KABUL: As U.S. troops prepare to leave Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan have agreed to enhance cooperation on bringing stability to the war-torn country, amid a rivalry of regional powers to expand their footprint with the vacuum left by the US withdrawal. Media reports said Pakistani foreign minister Shah …

AT News KABUL: Pakistan has finished 80 percent of the Durand Line fencing despite facing backlash from the people on the both side of the line. The Pakistani interior ministry said that the fencing would be completed within ten days. The Pakistani military began fencing the imposed Durand Line in …

AT News KABUL: The United States plans to transfer soldiers to Kazakhstan after exiting from Afghanistan in September to keep a potential for protecting their national security, the US representative for Afghan reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad says. Kazakhstan government has also confirmed that Washington has demanded them to allow their soldiers …

AT News KABUL: A high-level trilateral meeting between Afghanistan, Turkey and Iran foreign ministers has stressed an end to conflict in Afghanistan and the need for a political solution and a stellar role for the countries to advance the long-running Kabul-Taliban peace talks. Addressing the trilateral meeting in Turkey on …

The long-running saga of floundering peace talks with Taliban is risking giving militants momentum as they continue to sweep through Afghanistan, gaining new swaths of contested territory, which sows dread as foreign troops are withdrawing AT News KABUL: As foreign troops are hastily withdrawing from Afghanistan, Qatar is now pessimistic …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Pakistan once again hit out at Afghanistan’s National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib for what it called his “repeated impertinent and unwarranted remarks” and accused him of trying to “disregard and nullify” the progress made in the Afghan peace process. In a rejoinder to a tweet by …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan has made it clear that Pakistan will not give its bases to US troops in Afghanistan, a statement that came as a teaser to his interview with HBO Axios. “Absolutely not,” the PM said to HBO Axios’ National Political Correspondent Jonathan …