An Afghan airliner from the state-owned Ariana Afghan Airlines has remained grounded in Russia for the last 16 days on charges of skipping a customs process in Sheremetyevo international airport in Moscow.

Authorities from the Defense Ministry at an event in Kabul on Monday highlighted the key role of Afghan women in defending the country and said 7,500 women are serving in the ranks of the army and police.

The latest US initiatives on Afghanistan, especially Washington’s 8-page draft “Afghanistan Peace Agreement,” are quite remarkable. They come perilously close to treating Afghanistan as a colony of the US, and in their intrusiveness into the fine detail of Afghan constitutional affairs, they remind one of the notorious demands sent to Serbia by the Austro-Hungarian Empire on the eve of the […]

US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad and Commander Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan Gen. Scott Miller called on Pakistan Army Chief Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa in Rawalpindi on Monday.

Abdul Rahman Fateh, the acting police chief of Deh Yak district in Ghazni, was killed in roadside mine blast in the province on Monday, local sources confirmed.

Villagers in a southern part of Tajikistan along the border with war-torn Afghanistan have been told they should be prepared “to take up arms” if militants try to enter the region.

As the summer fighting season approaches, the scale of war and violence continues to rise in Afghanistan. The latest figures show that at least 20 members of the Afghan security forces were killed and wounded in the past 24 hours in five provinces of the country.

Amidst new efforts by the US to expedite Afghanistan’s reconciliation process, officials on Tuesday confirmed that Russia is planning to host a meeting on the Afghan peace process within the next 9 days and that it will invite key political leaders for the event.

The Taliban are due to finalize consultations about the US-proposed draft peace plan, sources familiar with the group told TOLOnews. Meanwhile, Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, who formerly served as ambassador to Pakistan during the Taliban regime, stated that the recent moves by the US indicate that Washington is serious about getting the Afghan peace process to succeed.

Members of a number of different political parties said Tuesday that under the new US plan for a transitional government, the Taliban has been offered a 50 percent stake in the system with the balance shared between politicians and government.