The radio station was attacked by an angry mob in the northern city of Kunduz on Friday. An angry mob joined by the imam of a mosque attacked Zohra Radio, a local radio station in the city of Kunduz, on Friday afternoon, leaving damage to its equipment and building, head of the radio station, Mohsen Ahmadi, said.

Dostum’s spokesman said the number of Dostum’s guards has also been reduced and commitments have not been addressed. Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum’s aide said that based on the political agreement, the new government was expected to add thousands of Dostum’s soldiers to the ranks of Afghan security forces, but this has not happened so far.

Miller said the United States will continue to take any action necessary to ensure protection of its citizens. The US Department of Defense on Friday confirmed that the number of US forces in Afghanistan has reached 2,500 as directed by President Donald Trump.

Chairman of Hizb-e-Wahdat-e-Islami of Afghanistan Karim Khalili said the Islamic Republic of Iran was a powerful player in the region and a longtime neighbor of Afghanistan and that Kabul considers Tehran’s role in the Afghan peace process important and decisive.

Ezatullah Bek, a member of the provincial council of Ghor, was killed in clashes with the National Directorate of Security (NDS) forces on Thursday, the intelligence agency said in a statement.

At least 36 Taliban insurgents were killed in clashes with the Afghan security forces in southern Kandahar province on Thursday, police said.

Former Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan, Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal said President Ashraf Ghani has violated 80 percent of the constitution during his presidency. In an exclusive interview with Ariana News, Zakhilwal stated: “The President himself has violated the constitution at different stages.”

The Afghan authorities said yesterday they had foiled a plan by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group to assassinate the top US envoy in Kabul, as a wave of targeted killings continues to rock the country. Intelligence officers dismantled a four-member ISIS cell in the eastern province of Nangarhar that had planned to murder Mr Ross Wilson […]

Abstract: A key question for the future of Afghanistan is if the United States withdraws the remainder of its forces from the country, would Afghanistan’s security forces or the Taliban be stronger militarily? According to a net assessment conducted by the author across five factors—size, material resources, external support, force employment, and cohesion—the Taliban would have a slight military advantage […]

Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Haneef Atmar met with US Embassy’s Charge d’affairs in Kabul Ross Wilson to discuss cooperation with the incoming US administration on the Afghan peace, security, stability, and issues of bilateral interests.