The incident happened on Herat-Islam Qala highway in Herat province on Tuesday morning, local officials said.

Of that figure, 200,000 Afghans live in Turkey, 474,000 in the US, 709,000 in European countries. The Afghan Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation on Tuesday said that up to 200 Afghan refugees are being sent back to Afghanistan from Turkey on daily basis.

The incident happened at around 09:20 am local time in Bagh-e-Daud area in Kabul’s PD5. Four employees of the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) were killed in an attack by unidentified gunmen in Kabul on Tuesday, police confirmed in a statement.

This comes as 20 days have passed since the talks between the delegation representing the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the Taliban have stopped. President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday said that if the current opportunity for peace in Afghanistan turns out to be lost, and Afghanistan plunges toward an uncertain future, the consequences of such a scenario will cause severe […]

By Barnett R. Rubin, director of the Afghan Regional Program at NYU and former adviser to the US special representative for Afghanistan. A lot has changed in the three years that have passed since you published an Open Letter to the American People (on February 14, 2018) and I responded with my own to you (in the New Yorker, February […]

The clashes took place in the city of Tarin Kot, capital of the province, a source said.

Graham says he is very pleased with what the Biden administration is proposing for Afghanistan. Republican US Senator Lindsey Graham in an interview with CBS has said that the American troops will not leave Afghanistan in May, supporting the Biden administration’s stance on Afghanistan and its bid to review the US-Taliban agreement.

The Ministry of Interior Affairs in a statement said that it has completed its investigation into the incident. Maidan Wardak police chief Allah Dad Fedaee was suspended and referred to the Attorney General’s Office over the Behsud incident, in which 11 civilians were killed and 31 more were wounded, according to the Interior Ministry.

The first clashes took place in Aab Kamari district of the province after a group of Taliban attacked a security outpost. At least six security force members were killed and six others were wounded in two separate Taliban attacks in Badghis province on Sunday night, a local official said.

At least four people were killed and one other wounded in two separate incidents on Tuesday morning in Kabul city.