A car bombing, a roadside blast and insurgent raids killed at least 22 people, including security forces and civilians, officials in Afghanistan said Saturday. The violence injured nearly 70 people, most of them civilians. Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Tariq Arian said Saturday the car bomb blast targeted a police base in the province of Herat, which borders Iran.

At least eight people were killed and 54 injured when a car bomb exploded in Herat City in western Afghanistan on Friday, an official confirmed Saturday. A police constable was among those killed, and the injured included seven police officers as well as children, Interior Ministry spokesman Tareq Arian said.

The Defense Ministry’s plan to dissolve the Afghan Army’s 217 Pamir Corps and merge it with the 209 Shaheen Army Corps has been faced with widespread reaction from lawmakers and analysts who say it will have severe consequences on the security situation in some northern and northeastern provinces, especially the Kunduz province.

Following an eight-month period of shuttle diplomacy and challenging negotiation, the US and the Taliban signed a peace agreement in February 2020. The process did not include the Afghan government, which was then faced with a fait accompli placing them at the negotiating table without real ownership of the confidence-building measures agreed upon by US peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and […]

A car bomb blast rattled Herat city on Friday evening, local officials confirmed. According to the officials, an explosive-loaded vehicle detonated in PD14 of the city.

The death toll in a deadly car bomb attack in Herat city rose to eight, the Interior Ministry (MoI) confirmed early Saturday morning. The MoI said that an explosive-laden vehicle detonated in PD14 of the city on Friday night.

The Afghan National Security Advisor (NSA) Hamdullah Mohib said Saturday that Afghanistan will attend the Moscow and Istanbul peace conferences scheduled to take place in the next few weeks. The Russia-backed Moscow summit is scheduled for March 18, while the US-backed peace conference will be held in Turkey in April.

Afghanistan’s Interior Minister Masoud Andarabi warned on Saturday against a hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan of foreign troops, saying that the Taliban’s ties to al-Qaeda remain intact and that a swift pullout would worsen global counterterrorism efforts.

The Taliban took control of the center of Almar district in Faryab province on Thursday afternoon at about 1pm, according to local security sources. Naqibullah Fayeq, provincial governor, said that the security forces have retreated from the center of the district to “prevent casualties of civilians and local forces.”

On July 17, 1973, former Prime Minister Mohammad Daoud Khan led a coup against Afghanistan’s last king, Mohammad Zahir Shah, overthrowing the monarchy system and setting the stage for a republic system to be formed in Afghanistan. TOLOnews reporter Haseeba Atakpal discussed the origins and history of the republic system, and centralized and decentralized systems in Afghanistan with analysts, using […]