More than 580 Taliban prisoners who were released by the Afghan government as a step for peace have returned to battle, the country’s national security adviser has said. Speaking on 1TV’s Ka... Read more

Nominees for Afghanistan’s cabinet will be presented to the country’s parliament for confirmation within one week, officials said on Saturday. According to the State Ministry for Parliamenta... Read more

At least 18 people were killed when a suicide car bombing went off in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province on Saturday, sources said. Forty others were wounded in the blast which h... Read more

Afghans killing Afghans at this stage makes no sense, NATO’s senior civilian representative in Afghanistan has said. In an interview with 1TV, Stefano Pontecorvo said that a real reduction o... Read more

Abdullah Abdullah, chairman of Afghanistan’s High Council for National Reconciliation, arrived in Islamabad on Monday to discuss peace efforts with Pakistani leaders. Abdullah’s three-day vi... Read more

At least 60 security forces have been killed since peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban began a week ago, a security source told 1TV on Saturday. Read more

A car bomb targeted convoy of a commander of Afghan intelligence agency National Directorate of Security in northern Balkh province on Saturday, killing at least one person and wounding eigh... Read more

US President Donald Trump on Friday complimented the Taliban for being ‘very tough’ and ‘very smart’, and said the United States is dealing very well with the group. Read more

Violence remains high despite intra-Afghan peace talks opening in Doha, Afghan Acting Defense Minister Asadullah Khalid said on Thursday. Read more

A number of people took to the streets on Tuesday in Balkh to protest higher prices of electricity in the northern Afghan province. Read more