AT News KABUL: Tens of passenger buses have trapped on the Baghlan-Samangan highway as Taliban militants have blocked the rival road that connects Kabul to five provinces in the north and northwest. Officials in Baghlan province said Saturday that Taliban started attacks on security forces at the outskirts of Pol-e-Khomri …

Violent attacks on civilians erode trust on Taliban  AT News KABUL: At least 23 civilians were killed and 45 others were wounded in the violence Taliban committed across 11 provinces in the past one week, said the National Security Council on Saturday. “Taliban continue to take the lives of civilians …

AT News KABUL: The Taliban has released 17 Afghan security forces from their custody in western Ghor province amid complex peace efforts as both sides (Afghan government and Taliban) have tightened grip over prisoner swaps. The group spokesman in Doha, Suhail Shaheen said the detainees were freed on Saturday. So …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The human rights defenders in Afghanistan are facing intimidation, harassment, threats and violence, said Amnesty International, adding human rights community is under intensifying attack from both the Kabul authorities and armed groups. Against the backdrop of escalating violence in Afghanistan, human rights defenders and activists have …

Since its emergence, the COVID-19 pandemic has had significant adverse health, social, and economic impacts in Afghanistan, drastically shrinking the economy and driving down public revenue. Most of all, people who live below the poverty line have been hardly hit. In a recent study by the global aid agency named …

AT News  KABUL: With 172 new positive cases in the last 24 hours, Afghanistan now officially has 34,366 coronavirus cases across the country. The Ministry of Public Health on Saturday said that out of 395 suspected samples, 172 came positive. 23 patients have lost their lives battling the virus and …

AT News KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah, the long-run antagonist who incongruently runs the country’s affairs, are once again at odds over the Taliban prisoners release process. The latest confrontation went off after Abdullah, the Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation had expressed willingness to release …

AT News KABUL: The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) has expressed frustration over a spike in civilian casualties accusing the Taliban group for killing and maiming over 86,823 civilians from 2009 to 2019. Zabihullah Farhang, a human rights defender, had called on the militants to take practical steps in …

AT News KABUL: Sources close to Abdullah Abdullah, head of the reconciliation council said that he had offered a list of cabinet members to President Ashraf Ghani. Based on a political deal by Ghani and Abdullah, the latter got the chance to introduce people from his party for ministerial posts. …

AT News KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani says that he wants a peace with the Taliban in which achievements gained in the past 19 years be maintained and Afghanistan remain independent and united. “Taliban violence is a matter of deep concern and their attacks on the security forces is unacceptable,” Ghani …