Peace in Afghanistan would provide enormous opportunities for local and international businesses to invest in the country, in turn boosting the economy and aiding in its...
Lebanon’s prime minister announced his government’s resignation on Monday, saying the huge explosion that devastated Beirut and triggered public outrage was the result of endemic corruption....
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday said he welcomes the planned peace talks between the government and the Taliban and said NATO is adjusting its presence...
A group of as many as 180 Afghan Sikhs and Hindus are expected to leave Afghanistan for India on Wednesday. The Times of India reported Tuesday...
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Monday afternoon signed a decree to release the final 400 prisoners which will now pave the way for intra-Afghan peace talks....
The Afghan government’s peace negotiations team is expected to leave Kabul on Wednesday for Doha, Qatar, for the start of intra-Afghan peace talks with the Taliban....
Long-awaited intra-Afghan negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban are expected to start in Doha, Qatar within a week once the final 400 Taliban prisoners...
Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison urged US President Donald Trump to ensure an Afghan soldier who carried out an insider attack and killed three Australian soldiers...
Ross Wilson, the Charge d’Affaires at the US embassy in Kabul, has thanked everyone who participated in the peace talks program over the past five months...
Zalmay Khalilzad, the United States’ Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, welcomed the Afghan Loya Jirga’s declaration and President Ashraf Ghani’s decision to sign the decree ordering...
Nasrat Haqparast, an Afghan MMA fighter, defeated his American opponent Alex Munoz in a UFC fight in the United States. The match was held Saturday in...
At least seven policemen were killed and 16 others wounded in a vehicle bomb explosion in central Ghazni province. Wahidullah Jumazada, a spokesman for the provincial...
The Loya Jirga, or grand council, on Sunday officially agreed to release 400 Taliban prisoners so as to pave the way for intra-Afghan peace talks. The...
The Bayat Foundation, in partnership with Muslim Aid USA, held a successful Telethon on Saturday night to raise funds for the new Maternal and Neonatal specialist...
Responding to Zimbabwe’s announcement that it had canceled the T20I cricket series, the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) said late Saturday night that it respects Cricket Zimbabwe’s...
US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad has begun a new trip on Afghan peace, the US State Department said in a statement. According to...
At least 23 civilians were killed and 15 others wounded after mortars hit a Bazar in Helmand province. The incident happened at around 9 a.m. Monday...
Gunmen attacked Pakistan’s stock exchange building in Karachi on Monday morning, killing at least four security guards and a policeman, local news outlets reported. Pakistani Geo...
The European Union said that the high level of violence by the Taliban following the signing of the agreement with the US in Qatar is “unacceptable”....
The US State Department claimed that there have been frequent reports for child molestation in the Afghan military, and police forces but officers have never been...