American officials said on Saturday that orders for the remaining US troops to start leaving Afghanistan could be issued in the next few days. According to the New York Times, the officials, who were not named, said if US troops face no threats from the Taliban, the forces could be completely withdrawn well before the September 11 deadline. This comes […]

The planned withdrawal of US troops and the Taliban’s perceived disinterest in the peace talks have raised concerns among members of Afghanistan’s Meshrano Jirga (Upper House of Parliament) who in turn called on Afghans to stand together and work for peace. Speaker of the Meshrano Jirga, Fazal Hadi Muslimyar, called on all Afghans, and politicians to remain united during peace […]

Sources from the High Council for National Reconciliation (HCNR) said on Sunday that envoys from the United Nations, U.S, Turkey, and Qatar in Doha are trying to convince the Taliban to attend the upcoming Istanbul Conference. Following the announcement that all foreign troops will be out of Afghanistan by September and not May 1 as per the US-Taliban agreement signed […]

To be sure, the “forever war” in Afghanistan is ending on a sombre note. The US has barely managed to avoid a humiliating defeat. The final legacy will be that there are limits to American power. India will do well to bear this mind as it consorts with the Quad. In the final analysis, India’s Afghan policy failed due to […]

Afghan-chessboard is difficult. Now, with the US president’s latest Afghan-move, the chessboard is going to be more difficult, and more complex. It’s now neither a Stunning Queen Sacrifice nor a Bishop Endgame. Is it a Desperado Sacrifice or a Rook and Pawn Endgame? It’s difficult to ascertain now. US President Joe Biden has officially announced that US troops will leave […]

Over two decades of war, the Pentagon had fended off the political instincts of elected leaders frustrated with the grind of Afghanistan. But President Biden refused to be persuaded. President Biden used his daily national security briefing on the morning of April 6 to deliver the news that his senior military leaders suspected was coming. He wanted all American troops […]

At peak, there were 130,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan as part of UN-authorized International Security Assistance Force KABUL, Afghanistan In line with US President Joe Biden’s announcement, all American troops will depart from Afghanistan by September later this year, coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the US. Deployment of foreign troops began in […]

Nearly a dozen civilians and military personnel were killed and as many were wounded in Taliban attacks and other security incidents in the country in the last 24 hours. In the Southern Kandahar province, at least four civilians were killed in a roadside bomb blast in Shah Wali Kot district on Thursday evening, the provincial police spokesman Jamal Nasir Barikzai […]

President Biden’s decision to pull all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by September would be a historic achievement closing a 20-year chapter of U.S. history that saw more than 2,300 troops killed and cost upward of $1 trillion. But big questions remain about what Afghanistan will look like when U.S. troops are gone, as well as how the United States […]

Three police officers were killed in a car bomb attack that targeted an outpost in the Zinda Jan district in the western province of Herat province on Friday evening, the provincial governor Sayed Waheed Qatali said on Saturday. The explosion that happened in the Bazarak area in the Zindajan district was followed by Taliban attacks on the district from three […]