US President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming national security adviser Jake Sullivan has exexpressed support for peace diplomacy on Afghanistan. Speaking in an interview with CNN, Sullivan... Read more
As many as 5,000 Afghans have died due to diseases caused by air pollution in the past one year, the country’s health ministry said on Sunday. Nearly 3,000 of the deaths happened due t... Read more
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Saturday that the Trump administration made incredible progress in Afghanistan. Pompeo said on Twitter that every US administration since George W.... Read more
A negotiator of Afghan republic team has said that forming an interim government is inevitable in making peace with the Taliban. “If we want the opposite side to reconcile, the experie... Read more
Fuel tanks of motorcycles with two people on them will be filled with sugar or their catalytic converters will be filled with pellets for their engines to get disabled, officials warned on W... Read more
There is no guarantee that the Afghanistan peace process will succeed, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has said. “It’s a fragile peace process. There is no guarantee of s... Read more
Three Afghan senators have been arrested while allegedly taking a bribe of $40,000, officials said Monday. The senators were arrested Sunday in Balkh province where they were on an official... Read more
Afghan government will double the number of police in capital Kabul, officials said on Monday, as sticky bomb blasts and shootings increase in the city. First Vice President Amrullah Saleh,... Read more
An airstrike carried out by Afghan forces killed 11 members of al-Qaeda for the Indian Subcontinent in southern Helmand province on Saturday night, the Ministry of Defense said. Those killed... Read more
As many as 300 security checkpoints in southern Kandahar province have deliberately been evacuated to be seized by the Taliban, an investigation by the Senate reveals. The checkpoints are lo... Read more
