Five police personnel have been killed in a bomb blast in eastern Kunar province, a public representative said on Saturday.

The National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Saturday claimed killing a Daesh insurgent in eastern Nangarhar province.

Pakistan has vehemently denounced the use of Afghanistan’s soil to attack military personnel and civilians. At least two attacks had been launched from Afghanistan on targets inside Pakistan in February so far, a spokesman for the Foreign Office said.

The deployment of German troops in Afghanistan should be extended, suggests Foreign Minister Heiko Maas. DPA quoted Maas as proposing the extension in Germany’s military mission in comments to the Funke Media Group newspapers.

A Humvee tank, loaded with explosives, targeted Afghan security forces in southern Kandahar province early Saturday leaving at least seven wounded, sources said.

A Daesh militant was killed in an operation by the National Directorate of Security (NDS) forces in eastern Nangarhar province on Friday night, the NDS said in a statement on Saturday.

A massive fire broke at the Islam Qala customs facility in western Herat on Saturday afternoon, Waheed Qatali, governor of Herat province confirmed.Pictures on social media show plumes of black smoke billowing into the sky – with sources confirming dozens of fuel tankers are on fire at the border town customs facility.

Ensuring the Taliban do not seek a battlefield victory will require sustained U.S. attention and resources. Many peace processes experience at least short-term reversions to violence. Even a successful Afghan peace process will be at risk of the same, especially in the likely event that the United States and its allies continue to withdraw troops from Afghanistan. Ideally, such troop […]

Afghan Ministry of Defense (MoD) on Friday in a statement claimed that at least 31 Taliban fighters including a Taliban commander killed in the past 24 hours during Afghan ground and air forces strike.

International communities have expressed their “deep concern” over the escalation of violence and targeted killings of civilians in Afghanistan. The sixth round of consensus-building meetings for peace in Afghanistan was held in Kabul on Thursday.