AT News KABUL: Officials from Afghanistan and Turkmenistan have discussed ways to deepen the bilateral trade ties and to expand transit architecture inside Afghanistan during a recent government-level meeting. During a grand meeting between Afghan and Turkmenistan foreign ministry and transport officials and representatives of customs, trade, and oil and …

AT News KABUL: Former president Hamid Karzai and Taliban Prime Minister Mullah Muhammad Hassan Akhund were among world leaders congratulating Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after he won Sunday’s historic run-off election. Thousands of the Afghan refugees in Turkey also celebrated Erdogan’s win in the election. Erdogan’s landmark win is …

AT News KABUL: A new United Nations report has found that Afghanistan, Pakistan and Myanmar are among the hunger hotspots in the world, warning of increasing acute food insecurity in these countries. The report said Afghanistan and several African countries remain at the highest concern level. Deepening economic shocks continue to drive …

AT News KABUL: An Iranian official has said that any conflict with Afghanistan over border and water disputes would be “detrimental” to both of them, just in the wake of an outbreak of border clashes between Iranian border guards and Taliban fighters on Sunday. Director of Iranian Foreign Ministry’s South …

AT News KABUL: Taliban leadership is adopting soft diplomacy in its relations with neighboring countries amid recent tensions with neighboring Iran over border and water disputes. The Islamic Emirate’s Prime Minister Mawlawi Abdul Kabir in a meeting with Pakistani embassy charge d’affaires in Kabul Obaid Rahman Nizamani said Afghanistan wants “good …

AT News KABUL: The European Union representatives have called for the continuation of humanitarian assistance from the international community for Afghanistan’s people as the country is grappling with crippling economic and humanitarian hurdles. In a meeting of European Union and Central Asian Special Representatives for Afghanistan on Friday in Turkmenistan, …

AT News KABUL: An earthquake of magnitude 5.2 rocked northern Afghanistan on Sunday morning with its tremors jolting parts of India. The quake struck at 79 kilometers southeast of Faizabad in Badakhshan province and its epicentre was at a depth of 220 kilometers under the earth’s surface, according to India’s …

AT News KABUL: After a hiatus of three years due to coronavirus outbreak and Taliban rule, regular flights have resumed to China from Kabul with Afghanistan’s leading airlines already carrying out normal operations. Afghanistan announced the resumption of direct flights between Afghanistan and China earlier this week. The national flagship carrier Ariana Afghan Airlines began the first weekly …

AT News KABUL: In the wake of deadly clashes between Iranian and Taliban forces along southern borders, Iran has closed the Milak border crossing with Afghanistan, a major trade route between the two neighbors. Economic exchanges through the Milak crossing have been suspended due to the deadly fighting along the …

AT News KABUL: Farmers in northern Afghanistan have sustained big losses swarms of locusts have invaded thousands of acres of agricultural lands, UN food agency said Sunday. The locust outbreak has continued to threaten agricultural harvests in northern provinces as farmers can’t access the means to fight back. The invasion …