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AT News KABUL: The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with President Ashraf Ghani on phone, where they discussed the regional efforts to advance the Afghan peace process and the recent waves of violence including the attack on Sayed Al-Shuhada school that killed over 80 students and wounded 150 …

This document was prepared for the U.S. Congress by the Afghanistan-U.S. Democratic Peace and Prosperity Council in consultation with senior leadership from the Parliament of Afghanistan including in the Human Rights Civil Society and Women’s Affairs Committee and the Defense Committee. The future of Afghanistan’s democracy, women, youth, and civil …

AT News KABUL: A road build project presently underway will connect Afghanistan to China’s autonomous region of Xinjiang via Wakhan are in Badakhshan in the northeastern remote area, the ministry of public works said Tuesday. The project is announced just weeks after the United States said it would end presence …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Following Pakistan Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa’s meeting with Afghan leadership in Kabul, the country’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi expressed optimism for long-term stability in Afghanistan. Qureshi in a press conference in Islamabad said that stability in Afghanistan is critical for regional peace and …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon held a working meeting with members of the Government, senior representatives of President’s Executive Office and other high-ranking officials, according to the Tajik president’s official website.   Tajik leader reportedly ordered heads of power-wielding structures of the country to strengthen Tajikistan’s common border …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Head of Iran’s Islamic Seminaries, Ayatollah Alireza Arafi, in a message condemned the terrorist attack on Kabul school which led to the martyrdom of a number of innocent students and described it as cowardly attempt on the threshold of withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan with …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Iranian Foreign Minister called on Afghanistan to end any civil conflicts and unify against the terrorists who brutally attacked innocent school girls in Kabul. “Today, we’re mourning the innocent and fasting little girls who were oppressively killed by ISIL terrorists”, the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad …

AT News KABUL: The families of students martyred in the Sayed-ul-Shuhada girls’ school attack call on the Hague-based International Court of Justice to assess the terrorist incident that killed more than 50 school girls and wounded at least 100 on Saturday in the Dasht-e-Barchi neighborhood of Kabul. The call comes …

Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) says 40 percent of all air strike victims from 2016 to 2020 were children AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Around 40 percent of all civilian air strike casualties within the past five years in Afghanistan were children, a report said of the Action on Armed Violence …

Women representatives of the Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of Parliament) attended a video conference with key members of the U.S. Congress on Thursday evening where they discussed the latest political and security developments in Afghanistan. According to the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Afghan delegation also shared with the …