Amid signs of progress in the ongoing peace efforts in Doha, reports indicate that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will meet negotiators from the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and Taliban in Doha on Saturday.

At least six people were killed and two dozen wounded in two explosions and ensuing rocket attacks in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, on Saturday, officials and witnesses said.

At least 23 rockets targeted different residential areas in Afghanistan’s capital, killing at least eight people and wounding 31 others, official says. At least eight people were killed and multiple others were wounded when a barrage of rockets struck densely populated parts of Kabul, marking the latest attack in an ongoing wave of violence sweeping the Afghan capital.

At least 14 rockets landed in various parts of Kabul on Saturday morning just one hour after two IED explosions in the city. The Interior Affairs Ministry said three people were killed and 11 more were wounded in the rocket attacks. The rockets landed in Wazir Akbar Khan and Shahr-e-Naw areas in downtown Kabul, Chahar Qala, the Traffic Roundabout, the […]

Outgoing US President Donald Trump’s plan to withdraw 2,500 troops from Afghanistan by January 15 is coming under fire from high-ranking retired US generals, who describe it as lacking strategic calculus and a reward to the Taliban.

Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller has announced a major troop withdrawal in Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia. The news is being met with plenty of skepticism. “It’s time to leave Afghanistan.” That’s what the Pentagon’s new acting leader, Chris Miller, wrote in a two-page memo to Defense Department staff on Nov. 13.

The findings of a four-year military inquiry paint a brutal picture of a special forces culture of rewarding the killing of innocents and prisoners and methodically covering it up.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on a phone call with President Ghani on Wednesday evening discussed the Afghan peace process and troops level adjustment with the Afghan leader.

The Taliban captured Maymay district in the northeastern province of Badakhshan on Thursday, according to lawmakers and provincial council members, who said “several” security force members were killed in an offensive by the Taliban.

The U.S. announced plans to reduce the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan from 4,500 to about 2,500 by mid-January, prompting both domestic and international concern that the move could degrade the Afghan government’s ability to fend off Taliban advances. Crisis Group expert Andrew Watkins says the reduction could narrow diplomatic and military options for the incoming Biden administration and […]