Afghanistan Times

AT News KABUL: Fifteen European Union countries have pledged to offer protection to nearly 40,000 people from Afghanistan. Germany alone has agreed to take in more than half of the evacuees. The European Union’s Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, announced after a meeting of the bloc’s interior ministers on Thursday …

AT News KABUL: US General McKenzie, commander of Central Command, has warned that Al-Qaeda and ISIS terrorist networks have been growing in Afghanistan. During an interview with the Associated Press, Gen. McKenzie talked broadly about US strategies in Middle Eastern countries, including the growth of Al-Qaida and ISIS in Afghanistan …

AT News India on Saturday sent its first tranche of humanitarian aid, including 1.6 metric tonnes of life-saving medicines, to Afghanistan since its takeover by the Taliban in August. The medical supplies reached Kabul from Delhi on a return flight that had brought 10 Indians and 94 Afghans from the war-torn nation …

AT News KABUL: Poppy cultivation has increased by more than 8 percent as an estimated 6,800 tons of opium were produced in Afghanistan in the last harvest season which ended in July. A report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime said that Afghanistan accounts for 85% of global …

AT News KABUL: International donors have agreed to transfer $280m from a frozen trust fund to the World Food Program and UNICEF to help avert famine in Afghanistan, the World Bank said as it seeks to help a country facing famine and economic freefall. The World Bank-administered Afghan Reconstruction Trust …

AT News KABUL: Turkish construction companies operating in Afghanistan are earning praise for their state-of-the-art projects in Afghanistan, which currently needs such developmental projects as well as investment. “We highly value the work of this Turkish company,” said Mujiburrahman Omar, Taliban administration’s interim deputy minister for energy and water, during …

AT News KABUL: An official in UK’s Foreign Office has berated the British government’s handling of Afghanistan evacuation as “unforgivable”, claiming ministers were more focused on media coverage and “the political fallout” than saving lives. The civil servant, who requested anonymity, told BBC Two’s Newsnight that “trauma and suffering”, was …

AT News KABUL: The International Crisis Group (ICG) in a newly published report said that if the international community does not scale up economic support, more Afghans may die of hunger and starvation in the current crisis than from the fighting in the past 20 years. “Hunger and destitution following …

AT News KABUL: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced $560,000 of humanitarian aid for the winter to those athletes left behind inside Afghanistan, after evacuating about 300 members of the Afghan sports community. “Thanks to our discreet diplomacy, the Taliban accept and support the delivery by the IOC of …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan will host the Netherlands for a three-match ODI series in Qatar which gets underway from January 21 next year. The second and third games are set to be played on January 23 and 25 respectively. All three games will be staged at Asian Town Cricket Stadium, …