At least 53 Taliban militants were killed and 14 others received injuries in different operations conducted in southern Kandahar, Helmand and Ghazni provinces in the last 24 hours, defense ministry said on Saturday.

The Speaker of the governor of Parwan province of Afghanistan said that Bagram airport, the largest US military base in the country, was targeted by rockets for the first time since the signing of a peace agreement with the US.

Tajikistan has deployed additional troops along its southern border with Afghanistan after Kabul authorities claimed a group of Tajik militants played a key role in the capture of a district in northern Badakhshan province.

Geng Shuang, China’s deputy permanent representative to the United Nations said on Thursday that all foreign forces in Afghanistan committing crimes should be brought to justice.

Pakistan’s Prime Ministry met with a Taliban delegation led by the group’s deputy leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar on Friday and discussed the progress in the Afghan peace process and the way forward. Imran Khan has expressed his concern over the high level of violence in Afghanistan, calling on all sides for a reduction in the violence leading to a […]

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has expressed Islamabad’s desire for a Reduction in Violence (RiV) and ceasefire in Afghanistan to take forward the peace process. In a televised message after talks with a Taliban delegation in Islamabad on Wednesday, he said responsibility in this regard rested with all stakeholders.

Pakistan on Wednesday reiterated its belief that there was no military solution to the conflict in Afghanistan, vowing to continue to facilitate the Afghan peace process.

President Ashraf Ghani arrived in the capital of southern Kandahar on Thursday morning to discuss the security situation with local officials.

Unknown gunmen have blown up Mullah Nuh Baba’s shrine in the Andar district of southern Ghazni province, local officials said on Wednesday. “The ceiling and other parts of the shrine were damaged in the bomb attack,” Wahidullah Jumazada, the governor’s spokesman told Pajhwok Afghan News.

A Taliban team, led by the co-founder of the insurgent movement, arrived Wednesday in Islamabad for talks with Pakistani government leaders amid growing calls for a reduction in violence in neighboring Afghanistan. The visit came as the Taliban unleashed a wave of attacks in Afghanistan, striking in northern Baghlan and southern Uruzgan province late on Tuesday and early Wednesday. At […]