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AT Kabul: Bulgarian police have made four arrests after 18 people, including a child, were found dead in an abandoned truck in Bulgaria, its government says. The truck appeared to have been illegally transporting a group of Afghan migrants. Thirty-four people, including five children, were rushed to hospitals and some …

AT Kabul: Iran and China have urged mutual neighbor Afghanistan to for an inclusive political system and end restrictions on women’s work and education. The call came in a joint statement Thursday issued at the close of a visit to Beijing by Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi during which the two …

AT Kabul: Drought and a scarcity of water have become a new difficulty for ordinary Afghan people to contend with in these challenging economic times. Hunger, poverty, unemployment, security, and a lack of access to adequate healthcare and education have already had a negative influence on people’s lives. United Nations …

AT Kabul: Afghanistan Ministry of Public Health announced that Afghan Acting Minister of Public Health, met with Iranian Minister of Public Health in that country. In this meeting, which was attended by the head of the Afghan Embassy in Iran, in addition to bilateral cooperation in the health sector, there …

AT Kabul: The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says there is an urgent need for action as millions of people in Afghanistan face food insecurity. United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) wrote on its Twitter account on Wednesday when people ask about the …

AT Kabul: Today, 15 February, has been declared a holiday to mark the anniversary of the withdrawal of former Soviet forces from the country. The Red Army of the former Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan on December 1979 under the pretext of strengthening the communist government in Kabul, but after 9 …

AT Kabul: Zalmi Khalilzad, the former representative of the US in Afghanistan, says that the fight against ISIS will be an important part of Afghanistan’s future relationship with the international community. Khalilzad wrote on his Twitter that “ISIS is the common enemy of the Taliban and the international community.” Cooperation …

AT Kabul: The Afghanistan Journalists Center has confirmed the “attack of security forces” on the private Tamdan TV in Kabul and condemned threatening of employees of this media which is an arbitrary action and against the mass media law. A source in Tamdan TV, who asked not to be named, …

AT Kabul: The heads of the national security advisors of India, Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and China discussed the situation in Afghanistan in the recent meeting in Moscow. According AWAZ media Pakistan as an important Afghanistan neighbor was absent in Moscow meeting, although the spokesperson of the …

AT Kabul: Ned Price, the spokesperson of the US State Department, rejected the statements of the Russian authorities that Washington supports ISIS in Afghanistan for Central Asia, stating that this country reserves the right to conduct military operations in Afghanistan to target ISIS. In a press conference, Price stated that …