Afghanistan’s main public university in western Ghor province has been shut down after dozens of students tested positive for coronavirus, officials said on Monday. Read more

Eight in 10 Afghan children believe they have learnt little or nothing since schools were closed due to COVID-19 pandemic, a charity has said. Read more

Return of Taliban’s Islamic Emirate would be unacceptable and a new working governance formula should emerge in Afghanistan, US peace envoy said on Saturday. Read more

Chairman of Afghanistan’s High Council for National Reconciliation, Abdullah Abdullah, called for significant reduction in violence on Sunday, a day after intra-Afghan peace talks open... Read more

At least 10 Afghan forces were killed in Taliban attacks in Kunduz and Kapisa province on Saturday night, hours after peace talks begun in Qatari capital Doha. Read more

Taliban militants collect electricity bill on the outskirts of capital Kabul, Afghanistan’s national power utility said on Saturday. Read more

Long-awaited intra-Afghan peace talks finally began in Qatari capital Doha on Saturday. Read more

Afghan intelligence agency said on Thursday it arrested one of the planners of assassination of religious scholars Muhammad Ayaz Niazi and Azizullah Mufleh. Read more

A truck bomb targeted a police post in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province on Thursday afternoon, an official said. Read more

The United States is reducing its troop levels in Afghanistan to 4,500 by November, the head of US Central Command, said on Wednesday. Read more