The third meeting of the EU-Afghanistan Special Working Group on Human Rights, Good Governance and Migration was held on Wednesday virtually in which parties involved expressed grave concern about the continuing high level of violence, and condemned the increasing number of targeted killings of media workers, civil society activists and law enforcement officials.

There has been an increase in civilians killed and injured in Afghanistan following the start of peace talks in September, UNAMA said Tuesday. According to the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan’s (UNAMA) latest report, despite the rise in casualties since September the overall numbers for 2020 were down due to lower civilian casualty rates prior to the start of talks.

After more than a month of delays, a sharp rise in violence and continued discussions on the future of foreign troops in Afghanistan the stalled peace talks between the Afghan Republic’s team and the Taliban resumed on Monday in Qatar.

At least nine pro-government forces were killed in a clash with the Taliban militants in eastern Logar province, sources said.

Military officials in Kandahar claimed Tuesday that foreign militants are fighting alongside the Taliban in the province against government forces. According to the officials, evidence shows that al-Qaeda, Pakistani and Chechen insurgents were colluding with the Taliban in the four-month war in the Arghandab district of Kandahar.

Khalil-ur-Rahman Narmgui, chief of the Baghlan-e-Markazi district hospital, in Baghlan province was killed in an attack by Taliban militants on Tuesday evening, the Interior Ministry (MoI) confirmed.

A lack of security has inflicted a loss of over $15 million to telecommunication companies, as 380 towers have been totally or partially damaged in various parts of the country since last March, official figures reveal.

At least nine public uprising force members were killed in a Taliban attack on a security outpost in Logar province on Monday night, sources said on Tuesday. The Taliban attacked a security outpost in Pul-e-Alam, the capital of Logar, the source said. “The clashes continued for more than two hours during which the outpost was taken over and nine public […]

Many residents of the Shirzad district in the eastern province of Nangarhar are busy growing opium poppy in the Gandamak area, where it was planted months earlier.

There was a rise in civilians killed and injured in Afghanistan following the start of peace negotiations in September, according to a report released by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the UN Human Rights Office on Tuesday.