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AT News KABUL: Taliban accuse the United States of imposing a meeting expected to be held this month in Turkey, where the militants had earlier rejected to attend. The insurgent group said Monday in a statement that Washington could not step unilaterally for peace by pressuring them. “The Turkey meeting …

AT News KABUL: The exports of the Afghan carpets have dropped by 90 percent due to closure of the air-corridor system that transports the Afghan stocks and goods to China and European countries. Chief executive officer of the chamber of commerce and industry, Shafiqullah Attaye said that air-corridor was halted …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Former President Donald Trump has praised President Joe Biden’s plan to withdraw all remaining US troops from Afghanistan as a “wonderful and positive thing to do,” drawing criticism from some Republicans. Biden on Wednesday formally announced that he planned to withdraw all troops stationed in Afghanistan by …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: No one can say with any certainty what will happen in Afghanistan once U.S. President Joe Biden withdraws the remaining 2,500 to 3,500 U.S. troops by September 11 to end the country’s longest war, a top White House official said Sunday. “I can’t make any guarantees …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The Iranian foreign ministry announced on Monday that the country continues the policy of paving the ground for talks among different Afghan groups to attain sustainable peace and security in Afghanistan. “Fully secure and stable Afghanistan is a high priority to us. Peace talks should be …

AT News KABUL: The Foreign Ministers of Afghanistan and Pakistan held a phone call on Sunday, where they pinned high hop on the upcoming Istanbul Conference that can help make the ongoing Afghan peace process “result-oriented.” During a phone conversation, Afghan FM Haneef Atmar and Pakistani FM Shah Mehmood Qureshi …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The German defense minister says she wants to help bring some Afghan employees of her country’s military to Germany as it prepares to leave Afghanistan after nearly 20 years. NATO allies including Germany are set to join the United States in pulling their remaining troops out …

There remains concern that the Taliban or other militant groups will launch attacks on departing forces AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The US will likely increase its troop presence in Afghanistan temporarily over the coming weeks and months in order to fulfill President Joe Biden’s order to safely withdraw all forces …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Washington’s accusation regarding alleged Russian bounties for assassination of US servicemen in Afghanistan are fiction and phobias of US intelligence community, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. “We noted the once again voice White House accusations towards Russia about the alleged bounties to Taliban militants …

AT News KABUL: Iran and India believe that the return of the Islamic Emirate used by Taliban in their five-year long rule on Afghanistan would be impossible, saying that Afghanistan would not go backwards. “We need to put our differences aside and focus on our commons including the reality that …