Afghanistan Times

AT News Report KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai on Wednesday reacted to statements by the US President Donald Trump about the situation of Afghanistan after the US withdrawal. “Afghanistan is not the laboratory of terrorists, but a victim of terrorism, that grew with the US funding and ambiguous policies,” Karzai …

AT News Report KABUL: The Independent Election Commission (IEC) has chosen Denmark for printing the ballot papers for the September presidential elections, an official at the commission said on Wednesday, adding that counterfeiting the ballots would be impossible. Zabihullah Sadaat, a spokesman for the commission, said that the number of …

AT News Report KABUL: Police attested Taliban’s alms (zakat, Islamic charity) collector during an operation in western Ghor province. A key Taliban group member who was involved in collecting alms from people to fund the operations of the group, was arrested after Afghan National Police (ANP) conducted an operation in …

AT News Report KABUL: At least 53 militants were killed and four others wounded in multiple extensive military operations in the past 24 hours. In a statement issued Wednesday here in Kabul, Ministry of Defense (MoD), said that Afghan National Army (ANA) with the cooperation of the Afghan National Police …

AT News Report KABUL: The government and some political leaders have said they would not attend a meeting scheduled to be held as an ‘intra-Afghan dialogue’ with Taliban representatives on Sunday and Monday in Doha. Germany and Qatar are going to host the meeting welcomed by the United States that …

AT News Report KABUL: Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah criticizes interferences in the electoral process, warning of an electoral crisis. Abdullah who is one of 18 hopefuls for the September presidential elections and once again a competitor to President Ashraf Ghani in the race, said that the people of Afghanistan could …

AT News Report KABUL:  The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) is appalled by the Taliban-claimed attack on Monday in a civilian-populated area of Kabul, where schools, homes, media outlets and other civilian facilities were immediately nearby. Preliminary data indicates that the complex attack began with the detonation of explosives …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: US President Donald Trump, while maintaining that he wants the US to “just get out” of the 18-year mire of a campaign in Afghanistan, has now said he won’t do that after all – leaving behind a “very strong” intelligence presence. In an interview to Fox …

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AT News Report KABUL: Afghan Security Forces have killed and wounded hundreds of Taliban rebels in multiple extensive raids conducted in northern parts of the country within past two weeks, military officials said Tuesday. The 209st Shaheen Corps in a statement said the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces conducted …