Taliban shadow district governor for Baghlan’s Khinjan district has been killed in a clash with the Afghan security forces, provincial police confirmed.

The US Special Representative for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad met with the Taliban delegation, led by the group’s deputy leader Mullah Baradar, in Doha, Qatar, on Saturday to discuss the latest developments around the Afghan peace process.

The Russian presence in Central Asia, predicated on the threats from Afghanistan, stymies the political and economic development of the region. On November 24, 2020, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in a video message to the participants of the Geneva International Conference on Afghanistan, expressed Moscow’s concern about the ongoing escalation of violence in Afghanistan.

US lawmakers are moving to prevent the Trump administration from reducing troop levels in Afghanistan and Germany before President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in on 20 January 2021. US news agencies report that the House and Senate conferees have hashed out the mutual terms for the proposed fiscal year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act and are set to vote on […]

Four people were killed in security incidents in Kabul in the last 24 hours, according to eyewitnesses and victims’ relatives. In one of these incidents, unknown armed killed Abdul Jamil Hafifi, member of the Supreme Court, in Kabul’s PD8. His brother was wounded in this incident, his family said.

Iran’s currency is a widely used in local markets in Nimroz that shares borders with Iran, provincial council members in the province said on Saturday, adding that 90 percent of transactions are carried out in Iranian rial instead of Afghani.

Addressing the first meeting of the High Council for National Reconciliation, chairman Abdullah Abdullah said on Saturday that in order for Afghanistan to achieve peace, international and regional support is needed.

The National Directorate of Security (NDS) has arrested a leader of the Haqqani Network along with seven of his men in an operation in Kabul city.

Pakistan’s military has said it’s 2,600km fence along the porous border with Afghanistan will be completed within the next two months. Speaking to VOA, Pakistan’s army media unit, Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), said on Friday the fence has already been installed along about 83 percent of the border and hundreds of new outposts and forts have been built along […]