AT-KABUL: Eleven new nominee ministers, except a female nominee, have received votes of confidence from Wolesi Jirga (Lower House) of parliament and were assigned as new cabinet ministers. “Out of 12 minister nominees 11 of them received vote of confidence from Wolesi Jirga and approved as ministers,” said speaker of …

Last day the US military commander Gen. John Nicholson in his address to the transformational ceremony of border police force from the ministry of interior to the ministry of defense, said being a front line state in war on terror, Afghanistan’s National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) have been fighting …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Three would-be suicide bombers have been detained in northeast Badakhshan province, the army said on Sunday. The Afghan National Amy’s 209th Cops Shaheen in a press statement, said that the terrorists were detained with three suicide vests at a checkpoint of joint forces in Dasht-e-Och area of …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Sunday said that Taliban deputy shadow governor for Helmand province has been killed. Mullah Shah Wali, the Taliban shadow deputy governor for Helmand and commander the group’s special forces, the so-called “red group”, has been killed in Musa Qala district …

AT-KABUL: At least six civilians embraced martyrdom and 13 others receive injures after a motorbike full of explosives went off Sunday in the eastern Nangarhar provinces, provincial officials said. “A motorbike full of explosives was blown up around 01:30pm in the police district 1 of Jalalabad city near the Shirzai …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: John F. Sopko, the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction has said that winning the war against the Taliban is impossible without elimination of narcotics in Afghanistan. He sees elimination of narcotics in the country as an urgent need, stressing that the drug traffic and trade …

AT-KABUL: At least 65 militants were killed and 27 others were wounded in different operations launched by the security forces in the past 24 hours in different provinces, security officials said Sunday. In a statement, ministry of defense, said that Afghan National Army with the cooperation of the Afghan National …

AT-KABUL: The ‘New Line’ organization, a civil society body has voiced concerns of security situation in the country, saying that the Daesh terrorist group would probably expand its activities in Afghanistan after its subsequent defeats in Iraq and Syria. Head of the organization, Naser Golrani said Saturday in Herat province …

AT-KABUL: Some political parties accuse the government of restricting political and civil activities which is against democracy. Meanwhile, a number of parliamentarians call opposition to the Kandahar session illegal, saying that political parties have the right to criticize government. They said that government made efforts to prevent Ata Mohammad Noor …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The work on first phase of Chabahar port is set to be inaugurated by Iranian president and Indian authorities today (Sunday). About two and a half years ago, Afghanistan, India and Iran signed a trilateral agreement based on which Afghanistan and India would ship their goods through …