AT News KABUL: At least 100 Taliban insurgents were killed and 50 others were wounded in a series of latest crackdowns conducted by the Afghan security forces in different provinces across the country in the past 24 hours, the defense ministry said Wednesday. The Afghan security forces backed by the …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The U.S. Forces are to hand over their main Bagram Air Base to Afghan forces in next 20-day an official said Tuesday, as Washington speed up to complete the withdrawal ahead of September 11. The vast base, built by the Soviets in the 1980s, is the …

AT News KABUL: NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg called the Afghanistan security situation “very difficult and challenging”. Talking to a new conference in Brussels, Stoltenberg said that the decision to exit NATO forces cause risks, but the organization remaining “would have implemented risks for our Alliance with more fighting, potentially …

AT News KABUL: A magnetic bomb blast killed at least three members of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) and wounded three others in the central province of Parwan. Provincial Police, Abdul Rauf Urozgani said that the incident occurred on Tuesday afternoon in Hofian avenue of Charikar, the capital of …

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AT News KABUL: The Taliban have set 700 attacks from several directions on Lashkarga, the capital city of southern Helmand province, military officials said. Commander of 215 Maiwand corps, Sami Sadat said that the al-Qaeda fighters also jointed the Taliban rebel in fighting against the Afghan security forces in Helmand. …

As the U.S. and NATO forces are exiting Afghanistan, the Afghans expect the peace negotiations to reach an early conclusion that will end the bloodshed and relentless violence. But, the expectations remained cold as the Afghan security forces and Taliban have been trying to step up pressure on each other, …

AT NewsKABUL: Afghanistan on Tuesday announced 1,045 new cases of coronavirus with 33 deaths across the country in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said.The new cases reported positive out of 3,614 suspected samples tested in different laboratories nationwide during the same period of time.33 patients have lost their …

AT News KABUL: The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) sacked Asghar Afghan as from the national team captaincy, blaming him for losing the test match against Zimbabwe in March at Abu Dhabi.The ACB said in a statement that Afghanistan Cricket Board members approved the proposition to go ahead with split-captaincy for …

AT Monitoring Desk Kabul: The Afghan government and the Taliban are set to soon resume peace negotiations in Qatar, which have remained stuck for over five months, to try and end nearly two decades of war in Afghanistan, officials told EFE on Monday.“It’s planned that the intra-Afghan talks will begin …