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AT-KABUL: Seven civilians were killed and three more were injured after Taliban fighters fired rocket smashed a house in southern Ghazni province Friday morning, official sources told Afghanistan Times. The seven killed civilians are members of the same family and include a woman and six children. Another three minors from …

Naveen-ul-Haq, the Afghanistan Under-19 captain, has dedicated the team’s maiden entry into the World Cup semi-finals to the victims of the attacks that have rocked Jalalabad and Kabul over the last two days. The entire team wore black armbands to mourn those who lost their lives during the quarter-final against …

AT-KABUL: A bloody incident was thwarted in Jalalabad city, the provincial capital of the  eastern Nangarhar. “Members of Taliban network, who planned to transfer weapons and ammunition to run terrorist attack in Jalalabad city arrested by intelligence operatives,” said Governor Spokesman for Nangarhar Ataullah Khogyanai. He said that the arrested …

AT-KABUL:  The building of veterinarian clinic after completion of construction inaugurated in Ghazni today. The complex was inaugurated with the participant of Governor and other provincial officials A press statement issued by the Ministry of Agriculture Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL) said that this complex was established for improving livestock and …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director Mike Pompeo has said meaningful action has to be taken against the financial resources of Taliban as the group has been generating funds from the drug trafficking and opium production. Addressing to the American Enterprise Institute, the CIA director said …

AT-KABUL: Taliban and Daesh terrorist groups extract crude oil from an oil well in the northern Sar-e-Pul province, using it as a financial source to fight the security forces, a provincial official said. Sar-e-Pul has several oil wells such as Angoot, Qashqari, and Tapa Zar, lying in the provincial capital …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Security forces have taken control over Pakistan-made explosive materials, planted in a vehicle that dropped three insurgents in the premises of the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul, officials claimed on Wednesday. While speaking on the condition to be unidentified, a security official, quoted by Pajhwok Afghan News, as …

AT-KABUL: The initial report of the Intercontinental hotel attack was delivered to President Ashraf Ghani, president’s spokesman said. A group of armed men stormed the landmark hotel in the weekend. The Taliban-claimed attack lasted for more than 14 hours in which, at least 22 people including 14 foreigners were killed …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: At least five people were killed and 26 others wounded on Wednesday in a coordinated attack on the office of ‘Save the Children’ in eastern Nangarhar province. “First a car bomber detonated the explosives in front of the Save the Children office in Jalalabad city of Nangarhar …

AT-KABUL: At least 65 militants were killed and 43 others wounded in different crackdowns within past 24 hours. In a press release issued here, Ministry of Defense, (MoD) said that Afghan National Army (ANA) in collaboration with Afghan National Police (ANP) and National Directorate of Security (NDS) personal has conducted …