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AT News Kabul: The Taliban administration announced on Thursday they would sign the third and final major contract for running Afghanistan’s airports with the United Arab Emirates’ GAAC Holding. The contract would run for 10 years, deputy head of Afghanistan’s ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, told reporters at a …

AT News Kabul: Some Kabul residents are lamenting the lack of water in parts of the city and say that the lack of water in many areas has caused them serious problems. According to Afghanistan Times, they want the officials of the Taliban government to provide them with access to …

AT News Kabul: Local sources in Herat say that the Taliban have launched house-to-house inspections in this province for three days. According to local sources this inspection is going on in some areas of Herat city. Although the Taliban in Herat have stated that the purpose of this inspection is …

AT News Kabul: The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says thousands of Afghan citizens who have been affected by the June earthquake and recent floods are facing the risk of famine and in need of urgent aid as winter approaches. OCHA on Wednesday wrote on …

By Megan Specia The New York Times It may come as a surprise, particularly to those less familiar with parliamentary systems of government, that the decision on Britain’s new leader has been made by just a small (and not very representative) fraction of the country’s 67 million people. Around 160,000 …

AT News Kabul: Afghanistan received a fresh batch of 40 million U.S. dollars in cash humanitarian aid and deposited to one of the country’s commercial banks, the central bank said in a statement on September 6. While expressing gratitude and appreciation for the help of the international community, Da Afghanistan …

AT News Kabul: The new academic year of 1401 started yesterday in tropical provinces of Afghanistan while schools for female students in grade 7-12 remain closed around the country. In the session that were held for this purpose, the speakers expressed their satisfaction with the new beginning of the academic …

AT News Kabul: The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says it plans to conduct the measles vaccination to 550,000 Afghan children. UNICEF has said in a tweet today, Wednesday, that this number of children in 9 central provinces of Afghanistan will benefit from the measles vaccine. According to the United …

AT News Kabul: Pakistan’s Taliban accused the military Tuesday of breaking a fragile ceasefire, after the army said five soldiers and at least four militants died in a gun battle in the country’s northwest. Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) declared an indefinite ceasefire in June to facilitate peace talks being brokered by …

AT News Kabul: Hamid Karzai, the former president of Afghanistan held a meeting with Bahador Aminian, Iran’s ambassador to Afghanistan in Kabul on Tuesday. In the meeting, the two sides exchanged views and discussed the latest developments in Afghanistan. Hamid Karzai, the former president of Afghanistan described Iran as a …