AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Spain wrapped up its 14-year long military mission n Afghanistan while leaving its 25 troops in Kabul, a media report said. At a ceremony presided over by Spain’s Deputy Prime Minister, Soraya Saenz de Santamaria in western Herat province, the Spanish armed forces lowered their flag and …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: As the government has increased crackdown on drug addiction in the capital city, drug addicts are turning to the Southern Ghazni province because drugs and narcotics are being sold openly without any sense of fear from anti-narcotic officials. Nasraullah Naeemi, the head of a rehabilitation center, told …

By Mansoor Faizy-KABUL:  Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) said that the number of people killed in Kunduz hospital bombing has reached 30.  The US forces in an airstrike pounded MSF hospital in Kunduz on October 3. As many as 10 patients and 13 staffers were identified out of the debris of …

AT-KABUL: Five health workers, who were kidnapped by the Taliban insurgents on Sunday morning in northern Faryab province, were released after successful negotiations between the militants and tribal elders. According to media reports the health workers were traveling from the provincial capital, Maimana city, to Kohistan district in the morning …

AT-KABUL: In a session organized by the Federation of Afghanistan’s Civil Society (FACS), political and security affairs analysts on Sunday said that foreigners were not interested in development of Afghanistan but they were here for their own interests. The session was aimed to discuss the existing challenges and strengthen national …

Acting police chief confirms presence of insurgents Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi-KABUL: Public representatives in the parliament from Baghlan province said that inattention of the government has turned the province into a recruitment center of the Taliban militants. They said that lack of coordination between leaders of the National Unity Government (NUG) …

AT-KABUL: At least 47 Taliban have been killed and some others wounded in blitzkrieg on their sanctuaries in southern Helmand province on Sunday, official sources said. In another incident, the National Directorate of Security (NDS) had foiled coordinated attacks on security check-posts in Nangarhar. Spokesman for the 215th Maiwand Military …

Afghanistan have clinched a historic one-day international series over Zimbabwe after a 73-run victory in Bulawayo saw them win 3-2. They are the first non-Test-playing country to win a multi-game bilateral ODI series against a Test side. Sean Williams was Zimbabwe’s lone hope, hitting a defiant 102 as the hosts, …

AT-KABUL: Ex-President Hamid Karzai met with Tajikistan’s President Imam Ali Rahman at Mellat Palace in Dushanbe, the capital city of the neighboring Tajikistan. The two leaders discussed different issues of mutual interest including historic and cultural ties between the two countries. Later, Hamid Karzai participated in a luncheon hosted by …

AT-KABUL: The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Abdullah Abdullah said that the anti-Afghanistan forces could not succeed in achieving their ends while using terrorism as a mean. Addressing a mourning ceremony on the Ashura day, Abdullah said 10th Muharam is reminiscent of  the greatest ever lesson to stand for justice and …