The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday said that the United States so far has not made a decision on the May 1 deadline for the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan.

At least 35 Taliban insurgents were killed in an operation by the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) in southern Zabul province, the Defense Ministry (MoD) said in a statement on Wednesday.

Sources told ArianaNews on Wednesday that Turkey will host a meeting on Afghan peace process on 27 March. According to the sources the meeting will be take place in Ankara, capital of Turkey.

The United States’ Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) warned on Wednesday night that security remains the most crucial and enduring high-risk area for Afghanistan and with or without a sustainable peace agreement and nationwide ceasefire, Afghanistan will likely continue to be threatened by multiple violent-extremist organizations. Presenting SIGAR’s 2021 High-Risk List to US Congress, John F. Sopko, Special […]

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.