The United States has closed at least 10 military bases across Afghanistan as part of a withdrawal process “so murky” that many officials say they are uncertain of what’s to come despite a fast-approaching deadline, the Washington Post reported Saturday.

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday Tehran would retaliate over the killing of the country’s top nuclear scientist, who the West claimed was heading up a secret nuclear weapons program for Iran.

President Ashraf Ghani and his Turkmen counterpart Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow on Saturday discussed a number of issues, on the phone, including the transmission of power from Turkmenistan to Afghanistan, said the Presidential Palace in a series of tweets.

Haneef Atmar, Minister of Foreign Affairs, has called on the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to step up their support for the Afghan peace process. Addressing the 47th session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers in Niamey, the capital of Niger, Atmar urge the Ulema across Muslim countries to condemn the “unjustified” violence in Afghanistan

Over the past four years, the Trump administration took bold actions to initiate negotiations between the Kabul government and the Taliban insurgency. For the first time since the Afghanistan conflict began more than 40 years ago, an Afghan government began talking to its main insurgent rival about creating a foundation for a stable future. Thanks to this diplomatic initiative, the […]

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is commending outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump for initiating the landmark peace process aimed at ending the Afghan conflict, America’s longest war. “It is after a long time that there is a prospect of [Afghan] peace. … It was a great achievement of his [Trump’s] because he literally forced this peace process to take place,” […]

China offered to cooperate with the United States’ incoming Biden administration regarding Afghanistan on Wednesday, extending an olive branch to the president-elect that came just ahead of formal congratulations by Chinese President Xi Jinping.

At least six policemen were wounded in a suicide attack in the southern province of Kandahar on Wednesday morning, Interior Ministry said in a statement.

At least three suspects were arrested in connection with deadly bomb blasts in the city of Bamiyan on Tuesday that according to sources killed at least 17 people and wounded over 50 others, police said. Bamiyan police said that according to their initial investigation, “Taliban has plotted the attack.” Taliban has denied involvement in the attack.

The Afghan government on Wednesday shared CCTV footage with the media of the vehicle that was attacked in Kabul three weeks ago in which three Central Bank officials, including former TOLOnews anchor Yama Siawash, were killed.