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AT News KABUL: The Taliban have set 700 attacks from several directions on Lashkarga, the capital city of southern Helmand province, military officials said. Commander of 215 Maiwand corps, Sami Sadat said that the al-Qaeda fighters also jointed the Taliban rebel in fighting against the Afghan security forces in Helmand. …

AT NewsKABUL: Afghanistan on Tuesday announced 1,045 new cases of coronavirus with 33 deaths across the country in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said.The new cases reported positive out of 3,614 suspected samples tested in different laboratories nationwide during the same period of time.33 patients have lost their …

AT News KABUL: Officials in the eastern province of Nangarhar say that the Taliban fighters set a district market at blaze that caused heavy financial damages to the residents. Provincial Governor’s Spokesman, Attaullah Khogiani said that the Taliban looted the goods and stocks of the bazaar during one last week …

AT News KABUL: The Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (MoLSA) on Tuesday said five million Afghan children are vulnerable across the country.Speaking in a ceremony celebrating “World Children’s Day”, Deputy of MoLSA Ghulam Haidar Jailani said that five million children are at risk, which includes 23 categories such as …

KABUL: At least 12 civilians were “martyred” and another 13 were injured on Tuesday evening, after two, back to back, blasts hit two mini-buses in west of Kabul city, officials said The first blast, caused by a sticky bomb, took place around 7:30 in PD-3 west of Kabul city in …

AT News KABUL: At least 165 Taliban insurgents were killed and 85 others wounded in a series of military stings conducted by the Afghan security forces in different provinces across the country in the past 24 hours, the defense ministry said Monday. Backed by the Afghan Air Forces, the Afghan …

AT News KABUL: The Afghan health authorities have expressed fears over the third wave of COVID-19 that could now be spreading quickly around the country. 1,566 new cases and 30 deaths were reported in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said Monday, showing a rapid increase in positive cases. …

AT News KABUL: The Taliban fighters have cut water supply in the northeastern province of Badakhshan by which 800 families have been deprived from irrigating their farmlands in the Argo district. Nek Mohammad Nazari, provincial spokesman, confirms the incident, saying that the water supply has been cut by Taliban and …

AT News KABUL: The Afghan security forces freed four captives from the Taliban custody in the northern province of Kunduz, defense ministry said. A spokesman for the ministry, Fawad Aman said that the Afghan commando forces carried out a raid on Taliban’s captivity in Qoshtapa area of provincial capital, in …