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AT News Report KABUL: The European Union says it is committed to support Afghanistan before and after a peace agreement, but warns that rush in reaching peace deal would not guarantee a lasting peace. “We know that a durable peace needs time. A quick deal will not result a lasting …

AT News Report KABUL: After 16 consecutive days of extensive discussion, eventually on Tuesday evening, US peace envoy and Taliban negotiating team made progress on counterterrorism, troop’s withdrawal and some other issues. “Just finished a marathon round of talks with the Taliban in Doha. The conditions for peace have improved. …

AT News Report KABUL: Briefing the UN Security Council UNSC, Tadamichi Yamamoto the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Afghanistan has stressed over immediate talks between Kabul and Taliban members—something the Taliban group rejected time and again. Yamamoto said the peace process was about determining the future of the country …

AT News Report KABUL: The government of China has called on international community to lend supports to the peace push by the Afghan government in a bid to promote political dialogue to bring Taliban group to the table of talks. Wu Haitao, the charge d’affaires of China’s permanent mission to …

AT News Report KABUL: The United States believed 2019 held the promise to be a year for peace in Afghanistan. “Washington was committed to using its influence with all interested parties to make 2019 a year for peace in close consultation with the Afghan government,” said top US official. Ambassador …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Tom Udall (D-N.M.) has introduced a bill that would end the nearly two-decade-long Afghanistan War. The 2019 American Forces Going Home after Noble Service Act would have the United States declare victory in Afghanistan and set a 45-day deadline for a plan to …

The plan, which was supposed to help talks between the US and Afghan Taliban, also called for cutting by half the 14,000 American troops currently in that South Asian nation in coming months, The New York Times reported. AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The United States will withdraw its troops from …

Indian External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj said the OIC must tell such nations to dismantle terror infrastructure. AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Friday raised a pitch at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation meet to build pressure on the countries that support terror outfits and …

T News Report KABUL: NATO Secretary-General says the Daesh terrorist group has several different organizations in Afghanistan, arguing that war on terror has not ended in the country. Jens Stoltenberg, however, says that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization had been successful in suppressing the terrorist group. He added that Daesh …

AT News Report KABUL: China’s Defense Ministry defended military cooperation with Tajikistan following a report of a sizable Chinese troop presence at a base in the Central Asian state. Ministry spokesman Ren Guoqiang told reporters at a monthly briefing that cooperation between the two was “in line with” international law …