At least 21 security force members have been killed and 17 others reportedly wounded in a suicide bombing on Sunday morning in Ghazni province, local officials said.

As events unfolded on Sunday following a deadly suicide bombing in Ghazni city the exact casualty figures are still unknown as officials from different government departments all gave different tallies. Local officials confirmed a Humvee full of explosives was detonated close to a public protection unit in PD3 of Ghazni city.

Sayed Hamid Gailani, Chairman of Mahaz-e-Milli party said in an interview with Ariana News that the establishment of a new body is necessary to lead peace talks. According to Gailani the new body should be acceptable to all parties.

The world is fast losing farms and farmers through the concentration of land into the hands of rich and powerful land speculators and agribusiness corporations. Smallholder farmers are being criminalised and even made to disappear when it comes to the struggle for land. They are constantly exposed to systematic expulsion.

Australia has been rocked by the release of a heavily redacted report about the killing of 39 unarmed Afghan civilians or prisoners by some 25 elite Australian Special Air Services (SAS) soldiers. Any prosecutions will take years and will violate the scientific principle of truth and systemic change rather than knee-jerk blame and shame. There is already huge Australian government […]

The world has been changing fast, and so must social movements, to keep up with the emerging challenges. The most significant aspect of the fast-changing world is the emergence of very serious threats to the basic life-nurturing conditions of earth, and in keeping with the recognition of this as the most important issue, social movements must prepare in many creative […]

In an incident on Saturday morning, seven people were wounded in two separate blasts in Kabul city. Ferdaws Faramarz, the Kabul police Spokesman, told Khaama press, the First mine hit a Land Cruiser detonated at around 7:10 am in the Khair Khana area in PD11 of Kabul city, leaving for people injured.

Late last week, I learned from young Afghan Peace Volunteer friends in Kabul that an insurgent group firing rockets into the city center hit the home of one volunteer’s relatives. Everyone inside was killed. Today, word arrived of two bomb blasts in the marketplace city of Bamiyan, in central Afghanistan, killing at least fourteen people and wounding forty-five. These explosions […]

In an online conversation with the members of the Afghan National Security and Defense Forces (ANDSF) serving on the frontlines in volatile regions of the country, Afghanistan’s president Ashraf Ghani on Saturday said that the Afghan nation fully supports the armed forces. The Presidential Palace in a statement said that in the virtual conversation the president thanked the ANDSF for […]

The Taliban’s spokesman in Doha, Mohammad Naeem, says that negotiators from both sides on November 15 agreed on procedural rules with 21 items for the intra-Afghan talks and it was read out in Pashto and Dari & a copy was delivered to the host nation. “The procedure of Intra-Afghan negotiations between the negotiating teams was completed and finalized in 21 […]