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AT News KABUL: A US airstrike in Dasht-e-Archi district of the northern Kunduz province have killed at least five civilians. Residents of the district on Friday said that an airstrike conducted by the US forces has killed five civilians, including a commander of Hezb-e-Islami – a political party, led by …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Militant attacks against American troops and other targets in Afghanistan hit a record high in the final months of last year, an US federal watchdog said Friday. In a report, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) said the rebels conducted more than 8,200 attacks …

AT News KABUL: A Kabul-based electoral watchdog on Friday voiced grave concern over its recent findings suggesting that the Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC)’s affairs were stymied by immense political pressures from election stakeholders. Ahmad Zubair Habibzada, spokesperson for the Transparent Election Foundation of Afghanistan (TEFA), said these undue pressures …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: A US agency warned on Friday that Afghanistan will need vast amounts of foreign funding to keep its government afloat through 2024. International money pays for roughly 75 percent of all of Afghanistan’s costs, while government revenue covers barely a quarter of Afghan public expenditures. The …

AT News KA BUL: A top US diplomat in Kabul has underscored the need for transparency in the electoral process, including the final results. “We strongly support the efforts of the election complaints commission to complete its work in a transparent, fair, and timely manner. Impartiality and consistency will deliver …

AT News KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai met Gulbuddin Hekmatyar the leader of Hezb-e-Islami Party on Wednesday, discussing peace efforts and particularly the intra-Afghan negotiations expected to be held in Germany, Hekmatyar’s office said in a statement. The statement did not elaborate the meeting, but said German government planned to …

AT News KABUL: Hundreds of girls have been deprived of education as insecurity recently been intensified in northern Takhar province, provincial officials said on Wednesday.   Some of the provincial inhabits have voiced concerns over the Taliban’s active presence in Khwajaghar district. They said the insecurity has deprived scores of …

AT News KABUL: Some 25 Afghan forces have been killed in Taliban ambushes on security outposts in tumultuous Kunduz and Uruzgan provinces, according to provincial councilmembers. The Taliban have taken responsibilities for the attacks. Deputy Chairman of Kunduz provincial council, Safiullah Amiri, said that Taliban staged a pre-dawn group ambush …

AT News KABUL: Officials in the ministry of public health said there is no case of coronavirus so far in Afghanistan, and also spoke about measures taken by the ministry in its prevention. Dr. Feda Mohammad Moye said passengers that have been directly or indirectly arriving from China in Kabul …

AT News KABUL: Some election watchdogs are arguing that accusations of fraud which had marred the 2018 Parliamentary Elections had been treated politically in favour of the sitting parliament members. They believe that favoritism in arbitration of election scams has tarnished public trust in elections and the justice system. They …