Former Afghan Vice President Mohammad Younus Qanooni on Thursday said that a new roadmap for peace in Afghanistan is taking shape with the support of the international community, and that the main focus will be on forming a regional and national consensus.

Swedish police were still in the dark on Thursday over the motive for a knife attack in the southern town of Vetlanda which left seven people wounded and forced police to shoot a suspect.

No peace plan should lead to the collapse of the Republic system and the abolition of the Constitution, Second Vice President Sarwar Danish said on Thursday. Speaking at an event to mark the 26th death anniversary of Abdul Ali Mazari, Danish said that any plan for an interim and participatory government without holding elections would be a doomed plan.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has called on members of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), an Asian political and economic intergovernmental organization, to play role in supporting a durable peace in Afghanistan.

Dozens of Hizb-e-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) supporters staged a protest rally in Kabul on Friday, demanding the release of the party’s prisoners from Afghan jails. Addressing the marchers, the Hizb-e-Islami leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar set the government a 10-day deadline to meet their demands.

The Afghan Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) launched a clearance operation in northern Kunduz province, the Defense Ministry (MoD) said in a statement on Friday.

One police officer was killed, and another was wounded in an explosion that targeted a vehicle in Helmand on Wednesday, sources said. An IED hit the police officer’s private vehicle, the sources said, in PD3 of Lashkargah city, capital of the province.

The Taliban has increased its presence in areas where the Afghan National Security and Defense Forces (ANDSF) left military installations and checkpoints.

At least 36 people have been wounded–including three military personnel–in the Jabriel area of Herat city after shooting broke out between security forces and armed men affiliated with a local strongman named Habibullah Ghoryani on Wednesday, according to Herat health officials. Fighting is still ongoing, said local sources on Wednesday night. “Three police personnel and 11 civilians have been transferred […]

The European Union (EU) in a statement has called on an end to targeted attacks on journalists and women in Afghanistan and says the violence in Afghanistan must stop. The EU said that the attack on the three female workers in Nangarhar, in atrocious, planned assassinations deprives three young individuals of their future and their families, friends, and colleagues of […]