Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said on Thursday that Pakistan’s Army Chief of Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa told him this week that the revival of an...
At least five civilians were killed on Thursday morning in Kandahar province in an IED explosion, police said. Provincial police spokesman Jamal Nasir Barakzai said that...
Mullah Abdul Manan Niazi, deputy head of the Taliban splinter group in the western part of the country, was badly injured in a skirmish in Herat...
Taliban insurgents captured a key district just outside the Afghan capital Kabul in central Maidan Wardak province on Tuesday, forcing government forces to retreat, security officials...
Afghanistan’s First Vice President Amrullah Saleh said on Monday that the American government had “legitimized” the Taliban and that now Afghans need the United States “to...
Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. special peace envoy for Afghanistan, has said the level of violence in Afghanistan is too high and that peace talks need to...
Responding to the deadly bombing of Sayed-ul-Shuhada High School in Kabul on Saturday afternoon and the Zabul bus bombing on Sunday night, Amnesty International said Monday...
Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah has welcomed the Taliban’s announcement of a temporary ceasefire over Eid-ul-Fitr but said this is not...
The Independent Human Rights Commission (IHRC) says that during the month of Ramadan so far (April 13 to May 7), 130 security incidents were recorded resulting...
At least 50 civilians were killed or wounded in the past 24 hours in separate roadside bomb blasts across the country. Local officials said that 11...
Taliban group has announced a three-day ceasefire in Afghanistan during Eid al-Fitr, the group said on Monday. “Mujahideen have been instructed to stop all kinds of offensive...
In his annual message ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr, Taliban leader Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada on Sunday called on Afghans to “contribute to the redevelopment of our homeland” in...
Pakistan’s Foreign Affairs Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said Sunday Pakistan “strongly condemns the horrific attack at a school in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing innocent children.” Responding to...
The death toll from a series of blasts outside a school in PD13 capital Kabul rose to 53, the Ministry of Interior said on Sunday. According...
US peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad said in a series of tweets he has wrapped up his latest trip – to Tashkent, Doha, Kabul, and Dushanbe –...
The Afghan Security and Defense Forces (ANSDF) have abandoned a military base and three outposts in the Alingar district of eastern Laghman province, sources said Friday....
The Special Envoys of the European Union, France, Germany, Italy, NATO, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States on the Afghan Peace Process in a...
With the withdrawal of foreign forces underway, members of the Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of Parliament) said on Thursday that the Afghan National Defense and Security...
The Taliban has captured Afghanistan’s second-biggest dam after months of fierce fighting in its former bastion of Kandahar, the group and officials said, as the US...
While heavy clashes are ongoing in various parts of the country, reports indicate that the Taliban is advancing on key cities in Baghlan and Ghazni provinces....