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AT News KABUL: The European Union representatives have called for the continuation of humanitarian assistance from the international community for Afghanistan’s people as the country is grappling with crippling economic and humanitarian hurdles. In a meeting of European Union and Central Asian Special Representatives for Afghanistan on Friday in Turkmenistan, …

AT News KABUL: An earthquake of magnitude 5.2 rocked northern Afghanistan on Sunday morning with its tremors jolting parts of India. The quake struck at 79 kilometers southeast of Faizabad in Badakhshan province and its epicentre was at a depth of 220 kilometers under the earth’s surface, according to India’s …

AT News KABUL: After a hiatus of three years due to coronavirus outbreak and Taliban rule, regular flights have resumed to China from Kabul with Afghanistan’s leading airlines already carrying out normal operations. Afghanistan announced the resumption of direct flights between Afghanistan and China earlier this week. The national flagship carrier Ariana Afghan Airlines began the first weekly …

AT News KABUL: In the wake of deadly clashes between Iranian and Taliban forces along southern borders, Iran has closed the Milak border crossing with Afghanistan, a major trade route between the two neighbors. Economic exchanges through the Milak crossing have been suspended due to the deadly fighting along the …

AT News KABUL: Farmers in northern Afghanistan have sustained big losses swarms of locusts have invaded thousands of acres of agricultural lands, UN food agency said Sunday. The locust outbreak has continued to threaten agricultural harvests in northern provinces as farmers can’t access the means to fight back. The invasion …

Taliban seek dialogue with Iran over water dispute AT News KABUL: Taliban’s acting foreign minister has met with Iran’s envoy ambassador in Kabul amid rising tensions between the two countries over Helmand River. Foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in a meeting on Saturday with Iran’s Ambassador Hassan Kazemi Qomi discussed …

AT News KABUL: Two international rights organizations have called for an end to the Taliban government’s crackdown on rights of women in Afghanistan. Amnesty International and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) said the Islamic Emirate’s treatment of women and girls is a gender persecution as they have excluded women …

AT News KABUL: Clashes broke out on Saturday between Iranian border guards and Taliban forces, media reports said, with the Taliban claiming Iran shot first and that the one Afghan border guard was killed. The clashes were reported in the Kang district of Nimroz. An Iranian police official Qasem Rezaei …

AT Kabul: The US Department of State’s spokesman Matthew Miller said that “Taliban have to earn legitimacy to get international recognition.” Miller made the remarks at a press conference in Washington D.C.  “So I will say with respect to tensions between Iran and Afghanistan, I don’t have any specific comment …

AT Kabul: The head of a major international aid agency said Tuesday that key Afghan officials told him in meetings that they are close to finalizing guidelines that will allow Afghan women to resume working for nongovernmental organizations. But they were unable to give a timeline or details when pressed. …