Afghanistan Times

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Three members of the national uprising forces were and nine Taliban militants were killed in clashes erupted between security forces and militants in northwestern Faryab province, provincial officials said on Monday. Police Chief, Brig. Gen. Abdul Nabi Alham, told Pajhwok Afghan News Taliban attacked several security posts …

AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said that its operatives had killed at least five Pakistani terrorists in a Special Forces operation in southern Zabul province. “The operation was carried in Naseran village of Mizan district of the province against al-Qaeda terrorist network cell which was operating in province, …

Illiteracy rate is too high in Afghanistan. The country direly needs well-educated people in different sectors to become self-sufficient as currently people of different nationalities are working here to fill the vacuum in the job market. They are employed by both private and public sectors. As a matter of fact …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah on Monday rejects all what he called “negative rumors” and declared support of the peace deal with the Hezb-e-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) party led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Abdullah said that “we have no tension about peace and its result with any group.” “Our …

AT-KABUL: Some 260 Taliban fighters have been killed and 213 others were injured during operations in the southern province of Uruzgan, defense ministry said Monday. These insurgents were killed and wounded during the ground and air attacks by Afghan forces in the past five days, the ministry said in a …

AT-KABUL: Two civilians were killed in a roadside bombing in the southern Kandahar province, a local official said Sunday. The provincial governor spokesman Samim Ikhpelwak said the blast targeted a civilian van in Shah Wali Kot distract of the province on early morning. “They were traveling from Kandahar city to …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A 20-member group of Taliban fighters including a powerful commander Mullah Daud also known as Habash has denounced violence and reintegrated into civil society by joining the Afghan-owned and Afghan-led peace and reconciliation process in the southern Helmand province, provincial official said Sunday. “A total of 20 …

AT-KABUL: Ministry of Public Health on Sunday said that 9,555 self-burning cases have been recorded across the country this year. “We have registered 2,016 cases of eating poison and 9,555 cases of self-immolation across the country in 2016,” a senior official at the ministry told Afghanistan Times. He called depression …

AT-KABUL: At least 17 fighters loyal to Daesh killed in an airstrike in eastern Nangarhar province, said officials Sunday. “Afghan airstrike targeted Daesh fighters in Achin district, killing 17 fighters in Nangarhar province,” said Provincial Governor Spokesman Atullah Khogiani. He said that based on report all the killed fighters were …

AT-KABUL: At least eighty Taliban insurgents were killed and fifty-four others wounded in different operations launched by the security forces within the past 24 hours across the county, security officials said on Sunday. “The national army with the cooperation of the national police and the national directorate of security operatives, …