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Six including kid die after car plunges into Badakhshan River

AT News KABUL: Six people, including a child, were killed after the car they were traveling in fell into a river in Badakhshan province on Sunday, said officials. The incident occurred in Baharak-Faizabad highway in the Khwaja Abdal area after the vehicle veered off and fell into the river. Police …

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62 Taliban rebels killed in latest raids

AT News KABUL: At least 62 Taliban rebels were killed and 19 others were wounded during a latest crackdown conducted by the Afghan security forces in southern Kandahar and Uruzgan provinces, defense officials said on Sunday. A group of Taliban fighters attacked Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) in …

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Prosecutor assassinated in Kabul

AT News KABUL: Unknown gunmen have assassinated a prosecutor on Sunday morning in Kabul, a provincial capital city where insecurity and target killings have been growing on a daily basis. The shooting occurred in the Karta-e-Naw area in PD 8th, Kabul Police said in a statement. “The prosecutor’s name is …

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Airstrike allegedly killed 11 in Kandahar

The victims are all from a single family, including women and children – Ministry of Defense assures to probe reports on civilian casualties AT News KABUL: At least 11 civilians, including women and children, were killed in an airstrike conducted in Arghandab district of southern Kandahar province, residents said on …

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Daily COVID-19 cases on rise in Afghanistan

321 new infections, 11 deaths reported in one day AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 321 new positive cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, pushing the total tally to 49,273 cases around the country. 11 other patients have lost their lives battling the virus during the same period …

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Editorial: Kabul before war

Kabul once used to be a pretty nice place for the foreigners and for the residents itself. Kabul was so peaceful and possessed an astonishing beauty with magnificent weather that many high-ranking officials even today are recalling those historic days. While remembering those breathtaking days in Kabul, some key figures …

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Four soldiers die of cold weather in Badakhshan

AT News KABUL: Four army service members lost their lives due to severe cold weather in the northeastern Badakhshan, a province located among high mountains bordering Tajikistan and China’s autonomous region of Xinjiang. Sanaullah Rouhani, provincial police spokesman, confirmed the incident, saying that it happened Friday in the Eshkashem district. …

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Karzai condemns civilian casualties by aerial attack in Kandahar

AT News KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai strongly condemned an air strike in Kandahar province that killed and wounded civilians. The attack took place in the Arghandab district and seven members of a family are among other civilians killed including children. The former president believes that only successful peace talks …

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Ghani’s adviser accuses ex-spy chief of holding much property

AT News KABUL: Wahid Omar, an adviser for President Ashraf Ghani accuses former intelligence director Rahmatullah Nabil of holding a lot of properties. Omar said Sunday that he would be ready to change all of his assets with only “five per cent” of Nabil’s properties and one of his houses …

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22-day break: Will 2nd episode of peace talks possible to take place in Afghanistan?

AT News KABUL: The Afghan and Taliban negotiators agreed on a 20-day break in peace talks continued for three months in the Persian Gulf’s Arab state of Qatar. The two sides announced late Tuesday that the next round of the intra-Afghan negotiations would begin on January 5, 2021. None of …

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