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AT News KABUL: At least 129 civilians were killed and 291 others wounded in the violence committed by the Taliban in the past one month, an uptick in violence that potentially could undermine the fragile peace process. The Taliban fighters have continued their violent campaign against the Afghan civilians, the …

AT News KABUL: The NATO Civilian Representative to Afghanistan said that intensive violence by the Taliban was the biggest challenge for peace in Afghanistan. In an exclusive interview with Salam Watandar radio, Stefano Pontecorvo said that the Taliban have expressed committeemen for peace but continuation of their violence and the …

Mujeeb R. Awrang KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani and Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, the Chairman of High Council for National Reconciliation, have held talks with the US National Security Advisor, Robert C. O’Brien on Afghan peace process, in which Washington reaffirmed support to a democratic Afghanistan. The presidential palace in a statement …

AT News KABUL: Throughout decades of war, the Afghan children, who have often been deprived of education and from a joyful life, were triggered into conflicts by the armed groups that resulted into their killing, maiming and even losing part of their bodies during the conflicts. In northern Jawzjan province, …

One of the by-products of the non-stop war in Afghanistan has been poverty, an imposed fate lived by the naturally-rich nation of Afghanistan now. Last year, the United Nations Development Program put the poverty rate at 55 percent as some 1.9m people were food insecure. Based on the UN figures …

AT News KABUL: New cases of coronavirus in Afghanistan have again declined, up just 60, and the health authorities on Saturday called on the Afghan masses to not engage in premature jubilant, rather pay serious head to the health advice to completely halt daily infections. With 60 new positive cases …

By Adil Ahmadzai The late Haji Mohammad Naeem Khan Kochi, son of the Ghazi Mohammad Jan Khan Kochi and grandson of the Malak Toti Khan was born in the year 1935 in a pious, respectable, famous and historical family in Hesarak village of Logar province. He passed the period of …

AT News KABUL: Tens of Taliban militants have been killed in clashes with the government forces in different provinces, military officials said. The Shahin 209 military corps in the north, said in a statement on Friday that the militants were killed in counter-attacks launched by government forces via land and …

AT News KABUL: Taliban militants claim that the US military had launched airstrikes on civilians in the south, inflicting casualties on them. The insurgents said the strikes violate a February peace deal the militants signed with Washington. Suhail Shahin, spokesman of the group’s political office in Qatar, said on Friday …

AT News KABUL: Sultan Barakat, head of Doha Institute has invited 45 politicians and civil society activists for an “informal intra-Afghan talks” in Qatar. Barakat has written on Twitter that the meeting would discuss future of Afghanistan, in which political figures and former government officials are expected to participate. The …