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AT Kabul: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a US$5 million contribution from the Government of Japan towards its emergency response in Afghanistan. This latest funding comes at a time when WFP announced to reduce assistance in March for at least 4 million people due to a lack …

AT Kabul: Ambassador of the Russian Federation in Afghanistan “Dmitry Zhirnov” says in an interview with media that Britain’s plan to supply Ukraine with depleted uranium ammunition show that the West is ready to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian. Referring to statements of the Deputy Ministry of Defense of …

AT Kabul: Foreign Policy wrote in a report on Sunday that three million blank Afghan passports are kept in a warehouse somewhere in Lithuania. According to this report, the previous Afghan government signed a contract with Garsu Pasaulis, a printing firm in Lithuania, to produce them, but this company refused …

AT Kabul: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan says that a delegation led by its deputy foreign minister, Sharaf Sheralizoda, has discussed Afghanistan’s situation in a meeting held with the the UK Minister of State for European and North American Affairs Leo Docherty in London. According to Ministry of …

AT Kabul: Three British men have been detained in Afghanistan, UK non-profit group the Presidium Network said on Saturday. The group said on Twitter it had been “working closely with two of the families”. “We are working hard to secure consular contact with British nationals detained in Afghanistan and we …

AT Kabul: Imangali Tasmagambetov, secretary general of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), said on Friday that there is an increasing risk of terrorist organizations from Afghanistan infiltrating CSTO countries. According to a TASS report, Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov noted that apart from various terrorist groups, the forces behind illicit …

AT Kabul: A state court judge in Virginia has voided a United States Marine’s adoption of an Afghan war orphan more than a year after he took the three-year-old girl away from the Afghan couple raising her. The girl, who will turn four this summer, was an infant when she …

AT Kabul: The BBC has launched a new education programme for children in Afghanistan who are banned from school. It is aimed at children aged 11 to 16, including girls whose secondary education has been stopped by the ruling authorities. The weekly programme is called Dars, which means lesson in …

AT Kabul: Hsiao Wei Li, country director for WFP Afghanistan, emphasized the need to provide the necessary funds for the distribution of humanitarian aid to the needy in Afghanistan and has warned that it is just “days away” from cutting assistance to 9 million people in Afghanistan if it does …

AT Kabul: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said he does not have any “regrets” about how the U.S. military left Afghanistan in August 2021. The secretary faced questions about the withdrawal on Wednesday when he and two other defense officials testified in front of the House Armed Services Committee …