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AT News KABUL: The Afghan security forces have arrested two people on the charges of assisting with the Taliban group in Qarabagh district of capital Kabul, interior ministry said Saturday. The perpetrators were arrested in the operations conducted by the Police Special Forces, the ministry said, adding that some weapons …
Read More »102 Taliban fighters killed in fresh military stings
AT News KABUL: At least 102 Taliban insurgents were killed and 63 others were wounded during latest military stings carried out by the Afghan security forces in different provinces in the past 24 hours. The Afghan security forces supported by Afghan Air Forces have conducted operation and counter attacks against …
Read More »Editorial: Bloody tragedy of Logar
The people of Afghanistan have gone through a lot of heartbreaking and wrenching tragedies and bloodsheds as their country witnessed severe conflicts and violence in various eras of history. This relentless violence of the past four decades has left behind hundred thousands of people dead and maimed. On Friday evening …
Read More »COVID-19: 183 new cases, six deaths reported in one day
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 183 new cases of coronavirus and six deaths in the past 24 hours across the country, said the Ministry of Public Health on Saturday. The total tally since the outbreak of the epidemic has reached to 60,122 cases around the country. According to the …
Read More »4 children, one woman killed in Nangarhar mortar attack
AT News KABUL: At least five members of a family, including a woman and four children, have lost their lives in a mortar shelling in Shirzad district of eastern Nangarhar province, a source said Saturday. Talking on condition of anonymity, an official said that the mortar targeted a house of …
Read More »Senseless terrorist violence claims 24 lives
A huge car bombing rattled eastern Logar province on Friday evening during Iftar –110 others received injuries with high school pupils among the casualties AT News KABUL: A huge car bomb blast killed at least 24 people and wounded dozens others in eastern Logar province. A car packed with explosives …
Read More »As U.S. prepared exit, Taliban protected foreign bases, but killed Afghans
AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Taliban fighters have protected western military bases in Afghanistan from attacks by rival, or rogue Islamist groups for over a year under a secret annex to a pact for the withdrawal of all U.S. forces by May 1, three Western officials with knowledge of the agreement …
Read More »Army base falls to Taliban, scores of soldiers missing in Ghazni
AT News KABUL: An army base in Ghazni province fell to Taliban fighters, provincial officials confirm. Abdul Jame Jame, member of provincial council said Saturday that the militants stormed the army base at the outskirts of provincial capital of the same name late Friday and managed to take its control. …
Read More »Afghanistan, Iran sign two border agreements
AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Senior Afghan and Iranian officials signed the second agreement on border cooperation after the end of a five-hour meeting. The agreement was signed by the Deputy Governor General for economic affairs of southeastern Iranian province of Sistan and Baluchestan, Mandana Zangeneh, and the Deputy Governor of …
Read More »University entrance exam begins: NEAA
AT News KABUL: The National Examination Authority of Afghanistan (NEXA) on Wednesday announced the beginning of the university entrance exam or so called Conquer. A spokesman for the examination authority, Dost Mohammad Faizi said that entrance exams would be conducted in three rounds. “The first round will cover 25 provinces, …
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