Abdullah Abdullah, head of the High Council for National Reconciliation, on Friday discussed the Afghan peace process; talks in Doha and strengthening of bilateral relations with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is expected to meet negotiators from the Afghan negotiating team and from the Taliban in Doha as recent indications point towards some headway having been made in talks.

The US Embassy in Kabul issued a security alert to all its citizens on Saturday, just hours after a rocket attack rattled residents across the capital and suggested Americans in Kabul “may wish to consider departing”.

By Saturday afternoon a clear picture emerged of the scale of the rocket attack on Kabul earlier in the day, with the ministry of interior confirming a total of 23 rockets were fired off in the city.

Afghanistan’s Ministry of Defense (MoD) on Friday said the Taliban launched attacks and other “destructive activities” in 23 out of 34 provinces of the country in the last 24 hours. One of their attacks was on the center of Maymay in the northeastern Badakhshan province on Thursday, where according to Hujjatullah Kheradmand, an MP from Badakhshan, at least 25 members […]

Abdullah Abdullah, head of the High Council for National Reconciliation, on Friday met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul and exchanged views on the Afghan peace process, the talks in Doha and bilateral relations.

Amid signs of progress in the ongoing peace efforts in Doha, reports indicate that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will meet negotiators from the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and Taliban in Doha on Saturday.

At least six people were killed and two dozen wounded in two explosions and ensuing rocket attacks in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, on Saturday, officials and witnesses said.

At least 23 rockets targeted different residential areas in Afghanistan’s capital, killing at least eight people and wounding 31 others, official says. At least eight people were killed and multiple others were wounded when a barrage of rockets struck densely populated parts of Kabul, marking the latest attack in an ongoing wave of violence sweeping the Afghan capital.

At least 14 rockets landed in various parts of Kabul on Saturday morning just one hour after two IED explosions in the city. The Interior Affairs Ministry said three people were killed and 11 more were wounded in the rocket attacks. The rockets landed in Wazir Akbar Khan and Shahr-e-Naw areas in downtown Kabul, Chahar Qala, the Traffic Roundabout, the […]