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AT-KABUL: The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) on Sunday hoped for a hasty talks to be kicked off between the Afghan government and the Taliban group—a day after US special envoy for Afghanistan reconciliation held 6-day consecutive meetings with Taliban in Qatar, terming it productive. SCO Secretary General Vladimir Norov said …

AT-KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai “most vehemently” condemned a foreign airstrike that targeted civilians in the southern province of Helmand, calling on the United States to intensify peace efforts in Afghanistan rather than bombing homes and villages. At least 16 members were killed in the airstrike launched in the Sangin …

AT-KABUL: The Hezb-e-Wahdat-e-Islami Mardom-e-Afghanistan (Islamic Unity of Afghan People’s Party), a political party led by the second chief executive deputy rejected his dismissal by President Ashraf Ghani as violating the political agreement. President Ghani on Thursday, sacked Mohaqiq, a powerful politician from his post as deputy chief executive, without elaborating. …

AT-KABUL: A number of the Islamic scholars on Friday stressed on an intra-Afghan dialogue, calling on the Taliban group to hold talks with the government of Afghanistan. These clerics in a gathering in the northern province of Baghlan, demanded the war sides to observe an armistice with the aim of …

AT-KABUL: A senior Islamic State (IS) also known as Daesh terrorist, has been killed in a US airstrike in eastern Nangarhar province. The news came at the end of a week in which two US service member were killed in Afghanistan in 2019. Provincial governor office said that the drone …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: With reaching its six conservative days of talks between US officials and the Taliban Qatar-based members, source familiar with Doha talks said that they busy negotiating withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan and assertion of ceasefire. It has been said that neogiation would entered its 6-day today …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Sources close to Taliban have said that the leadership council of the group has appointed Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the co-founder of Taliban, as head of Taliban’s Qatar office. Baradar has also been appointed as the third deputy of Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, the leader of Taliban. According …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Disclosing new figures on casualties, President Ashraf Ghani said that 45,000 Afghan security forces personnel have lost their lives since he took the office in September 2014. He said this while addressing a panel at the World Economic Forum. He put the number at more than 28,000 …

KABUL: Russia expressed optimism about resumption of peace negotiations between the US and Taliban to help in bringing the conflict to a peaceful resolution. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s envoy for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, has said that Moscow was positive about the resumption of talks on the U.S. troop withdrawal from …

KABUL: The Taliban are consistently taking heavy losses in the battlefield and military offensives and Afghanistan’s armed forces killed at least 56 militants and injured 22 others in crackdowns over past day. The Defense Ministry said that Afghan National Army (ANA) in collaboration with Afghan National Police (ANP) and National …