The Taliban staged attacks on a daily basis in at least 22 provinces of the country over the past week, says the Ministry of Defense (MoD). In a statement on Friday, the ministry slammed the Taliban attacks as a violation of the spirit of a political settlement and opposed to the will of the people for peace.

Since February this year, 10 US military bases in Afghanistan have been closed, reports a leading American newspaper. The US inked a landmark peace pact with the Taliban on February 29, providing for the pullout of foreign forces from Afghanistan.

While Mr Trump has fulfilled his side of the bargain by overseeing a significant reduction in America’s military presence from 9,000 to 4,500 troops since the deal was signed, the Taliban has been less forthcoming in terms of honouring its side of the deal.

The Chinese military was urged to modernize military theories, organizations, personnel and weapons and equipment in order to reach its centennial goal by 2027 recently set by the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, the Chinese Ministry of National Defense said on Thursday. It marked the first time that the country’s defense ministry explained the goal after it was […]

Since April 2020, India and China have been in a border stand-off after troops from both nations accused each other of trespassing across the Line of Actual Control (LAC). Following a violent clash in mid-June in the Galvan Valley, India-China relations soured. Despite diplomatic, commander, and political-level talks, the border tensions persist.

Fifteen insurgents were killed and four others were wounded in the latest airstrikes in Kandahar.

Nineteen Taliban insurgents were killed in fighting with Afghan troops in Helmand and ten others were wounded.

The Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force Afghanistan Inquiry was always going to make for a gruesome read – and that was only the redacted version. The findings of the four-year investigation, led by New South Wales Court of Appeal Justice and Army Reserve Major-General Paul Brereton, point to “credible evidence” that 39 Afghan non-combatants and prisoners were allegedly killed […]

People in the United States continue to pretend that the despair and futility we’ve caused isn’t our fault. Late last week, I learned from young Afghan Peace Volunteer friends in Kabul that an insurgent group firing rockets into the city center hit the home of one volunteer’s relatives. Everyone inside was killed. Today, word arrived of two bomb blasts in […]

At least 17 people, including six policemen, were wounded Wednesday morning in Kandahar province in a car bomb, local officials said.