AT News Report KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani and other Afghan leaders on Sunday strongly condemned terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka, in which hundreds of people were killed and wounded. Officials in Sri Lanka said that 207 people were killed, 450 others wounded as explosions hit four hotels and three churches …
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AT News Report KABUL: Russian officials allege that fighters loyal to Daesh terrorist network were shifted to Afghanistan after being defeated in Syria. Russian Defense Minister, Sergey Shoygu, said Friday that a Russian military contingent needed to be deployed in Tajikistan near the border with Afghanistan to prevent the infiltration …
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AT News Report KABUL: Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS) said its three spy officers were killed as they were trying to defuse an IED embedded to a vehicle. Three officers from Herat’s Directorate of National Security (NDS) lost their lives in the explosion, NDS confirmed in a statement on …
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AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday said he will ask the management of Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital to establish cancer hospital in Afghanistan. Addressing a rally in Orakzai, Imran said he visited the hospital today in Peshawar where he met two cancer patients from Mazar-e-Sharif …
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AT News Report KABUL: The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said this week that United States is trying to end the longest war in United States history in Afghanistan, the US Department of State said in a statement, Addressing a ceremony at Texas A&M University, Pompeo said that the …
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AT News Report KABUL: In its latest report on the treatment of conflict-related detainees in Afghanistan published Wednesday, the UN documents an encouraging reduction in the number of cases of torture since 2016, but notes its ongoing concern at the high number of detainees who continue to report torture and …
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AT News Report KABUL: NATO Senior Civilian Representative Sir Nicholas Kay on Wednesday returned from his trip to southern Kandahar province, where he held talks with high-ranking officials including provincial police chief, provincial government representatives, religious and tribal leaders, women, and civil society to hear about what peace looks like …
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AT News Report KABUL: The US Envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad has welcomed the UN Security Council condemnation of Taliban’s spring offensives in Afghanistan, and emphasized on a comprehensive ceasefire. “We welcome the international community speaking in unison on this point,” he said in a tweet message “As the …
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AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: U.S. Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island is leading a congressional delegation to Afghanistan, Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries that is meant to assess the impact of American policies. Reed, the ranking Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, is being joined by Sens. Jeanne Shaheen …
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AT News Report KABUL: Iran claims that the United States was still transporting fighters loyal to the Daesh terrorist group to Afghanistan, after the group was defeated in Iraq and Syria. Iranian Mehr News Agency on Monday quoted General Kioumars Heydari, a senior commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, …
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