Afghanistan Times

The COVID-19 continues to sweep through the world unabated as the number of coronavirus-related deaths around the world has reached a staggering 324,000, with more than five million individuals being infected with the disease. So far the US has been the worst-hit country in the world where 1.55 million individuals …

AT News KABUL: Ministry of Public Health on Wednesday said that it has recorded 492 new covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the tally to 8,145 across the country. Kabul has once again hit worse with 262 new cases from 1,003 samples that had been tested during this …

AT News KABUL: Days after a political reconciliation between Afghan leaders, the U.S. special envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad, has arrived in Kabul to resume his formal quest and negotiations to seek peace with the armed group of Taliban, seeking to reconcile the militants with the central government of Afghanistan. An official …

By NAJIBULLAH LOODIN Under the neo-realist theory, water conflicts have been broadly covered by media around the world (Julien, 2012). Titles such as “It’ll cause a water war: division run deep as filling of Nile Dam nears”; Blood on the Nile is what’s coming if Egypt and Ethiopia continue their …

By Mohammed Gul SAHIBBZADA Now that political reconciliation was reached between President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and Dr. Abdullah Abdullah by signing a power-sharing agreement on 17 May 2020, the Government should step up efforts to prepare a comprehensive, multi-faceted National Agenda, rally people around it and prioritize long due tasks …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: China has pledged to provide two billion US dollars to the World Health Organization (WHO) to help fight covid-19 while the US has threatened to cut funding to the Organization and revoke its membership if the group doesn’t make change in its system.  US President Donald …

AT News KABUL: An addicted father from the northern province of Takhar has sold his 7 year old daughter to survive. Zuhra’s mother who has divorced from his husband has five children. She says her husband is a drug addict and that was the motive for her to get divorced. …

AT News KABUL: Sessions of the drumhead court-martials is increasing in the central province of Ghor, in which, people accused of crimes are sentenced by local clerics, tribal elders or influential figures while no government officials are present. The elders’ councils are influential in the remote areas since several decades. …

An uptick in civilian death toll sounds the alarm of an escalating conflict and a need to contain it with more solemn peace effort AT News KABUL: Rising numbers of civilian casualties in Afghanistan, with a disregard for international law aimed at protecting civilians from harm, underscore the urgent need …

AT News KABUL: Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) have pushed back the comprehensive attack of the Taliban in northern Kunduz province, killing 40 fighters, defense official said on Tuesday. Taliban rebels coordinately attacked areas at the outskirt city of northern Kunduz on Monday night that faced a resistance …