US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad has called on Afghan leaders to “learn from past mistakes” and reach a political agreement. Read more

The Taliban remain supportive of al-Qaeda, even to the point of working together to attack Afghan security forces, the US Department of defense said in a report released Tuesday. Read more

Two bomb blasts went off in Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday, killing at least two people, officials said. Read more

Five civilians were killed when a rocket hit a house in Afghanistan’s central-eastern Ghazni province, officials said on Tuesday. Read more

Chief justice of Islamic State Khorasan Province, Abdullah Orakzai, has been killed in an operation, Afghan intelligence agency said on Tuesday. Read more