The Ministry of Defense says that 56 insurgents have been killed in clashes with security forces in different parts of the country in the past 24 hours. Mod stated, that Taliban fighters had gathered in different parts of the Arghandab district of Kandahar province yesterday to attack the positions of the security forces.

President Ashraf Ghani has said that Kabul-Islamabad ties are weak and the Taliban should cut their ties with Pakistan. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has asked Pakistan and other countries with a stake in Afghanistan’s future to put pressure on the Taliban to agree to a reduction in violence, a ceasefire and to cut their ties with terrorist groups.

NSA Hamdullah Mohib said that the Taliban is trying to take power militarily. The Afghan government is preparing for ramped-up fighting amid slow progress in the peace negotiations in Doha, with National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib saying the Taliban does not want peace and that based on intelligence information, the group is making itself ready for the next fighting season.

Afghan Minister of Foreign Affairs Haneef Atmar said the Taliban has to agree to a ceasefire if the group wants to exonerate itself of being responsible for the high levels of violence across Afghanistan.

A senior official of De Afghanistan Bank, (the Central Bank) was targeted in an IED explosion in Kabul early Sunday morning, the bank confirmed. The bank said in a statement that Abdullah Dawrani, the head of the Financial Dispute Resolution Commission, was the target in an IED explosion at around 8.15 am this morning.

China and Tajikistan have increased the number of border troops and outposts along their borders with Afghanistan, security forces confirmed. An Ariana News reporter also reported having seen the increase in military presence after flying over the area in a helicopter.

National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib on Sunday accused the Taliban of not showing any commitment to peace and said the group’s negotiating team has no authority to make decisions. Speaking at a security meeting at an Air Force Corps in Kabul, Mohib said the Taliban negotiating team leaders do not have the authority to make their own decisions and are […]

A US diplomat has commended Pakistan’s contributions to efforts for conflict prevention in the region and stout support for the peace process in Afghanistan.

Nine policemen defected to the Taliban along with their weapons and seven insurgents were killed separately but near simultaneously in southern Zabul province, officials on Saturday.

Kabul welcomed the new US administration’s plan to review the February 2020 peace deal with the Taliban. Presidential spokesman Sediq Sediqi said on Saturday that the US-Taliban agreement had so far failed to controlling militant-linked violence or pavng the way for a ceasefire.