President Ashraf Ghani implied on Friday that he expects the Biden administration to keep US troops in Afghanistan for longer than anticipated under the US-Taliban deal, signed by the Trump administration, saying the Taliban aren’t meeting their obligations to reduce violence.

Mangal Bagh along with 2 other militants killed in roadside bomb attack in Nangarhar, local official says A key commander of Pakistani militants was killed in eastern Afghanistan, a local official said on Thursday.

The Trump administration-set level of 2,500 American troops in Afghanistan is enough to achieve the decades-old U.S. mission there, but a full withdrawal by May is a “big if” due to Taliban violence, the Pentagon’s top spokesman said.

The deputy head of the Taliban negotiating team that is holding peace talks with the Afghan government, met Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special envoy for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov and other Foreign Ministry officials during the Moscow visit.

The incident happened in Alamkhil village in Balkh district of Balkh province this morning. Nasratullah Yemen, a commander of the ANA 209 Shaheen Corps, was killed in a mortar attack that wounded four others in the northern province of Balkh on Thursday morning, said local military officials.

“The Taliban is fighting against the people of Afghanistan, not against the US,” Afghan Chief of Army Staff Gen. Zia said. Afghanistan’s Chief of Army Staff Gen. Mohammad Yasin Zia, in reaction to a tweet of Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said: “Unfortunately, your understanding of the current war in Afghanistan is incorrect. The Taliban […]

The document shows that the request has been approved by the High Council of the bank, despite opposition by some former officials from the bank. A document seen by TOLOnews shows that Asil Gul Totakhel, the comptroller of the Central Bank of Afghanistan, has used government funds to buy a house and for personal travel.

A Taliban Qatar office delegation led by Mullah Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai has gone to Russia, the movement’s political office in Doha said on Thursday.

Afghanistan Army Chief Gen. Yasin Zia on Thursday hit back at Iran’s National Security Advisor Ali Shamkhani over his tweet hailing Taliban’s commitment to fighting the US in the region.

Reports that a strategy has been finalized under which the Afghan government and the Taliban would share power and would be given control of areas currently under their respective control are misleading.