Hizb-i-Islami leader Gulbduddin Hekmatyar on Sunday revealed details of his meeting with President Ashraf Ghani in former president Hamid Karzai’s residence earlier this month. Hekmaty... Read more
US President Joe Biden said on Friday that the greatest threat and likelihood of attack from al Qaeda or ISIS was not going to be from Afghanistan, but other regions. “The greatest thr... Read more
Afghan security forces are strong enough to stand on their own feet without international troops to back them, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday. “I think that th... Read more
Al Qaeda continues to thrive in Afghanistan under Taliban protection, and remains connected to its franchises across the globe, CNN reported on Friday citing Afghan intelligence officials. T... Read more
The United States is “rapidly” making plans to evacuate Afghan interpreters who worked for the US military, US Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen Mark Milley has said. Milley said a... Read more
Afghan Women’s Network in a letter to the Taliban on Thursday urged the group to genuinely engage in negotiations. The network said that it was dismayed by “discrepancy” in... Read more
Hundreds foreign troops will stay on in Afghanistan under US plans to stop the Taliban capturing capital Kabul, a British newspaper reported Wednesday. According to The Sun, a Turkish garris... Read more
Foreign troops are now expected to be fully withdrawn from Afghanistan by mid-July, several months ahead of the originally planned September 11 deadline, the New York Times reported Tue... Read more
The Taliban want the Istanbul conference to be short, the agenda should not include decision-making on critical issues, and their delegation should be low level, VOA reported Tuesday. “Our l... Read more
The US military’s withdrawal from Afghanistan is 16 percent to 12 percent complete, the US Central Command said on Tuesday. After US President Biden announced the decision, the US Depa... Read more
