The Taliban cannot return to power in the wake of international forces’ withdrawal from Afghanistan, says the government’s top peace negotiator. The chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation (HCNR) asked the insurgent not to think of taking over Afghanistan through military means. Such thinking on Taliban’s part would be a gross miscalculation, remarked the HCNR head, who explained […]

President Biden has announced that the United States will withdraw all remaining military forces from Afghanistan before September 11, 2021 — likely marking a definitive end to America’s longest war just months before its two-decade anniversary. The decision fundamentally changes the dynamics of the Afghan peace process, as the Taliban have defined their insurgency by opposition to perceived occupation by […]

The Afghan National Security Council (NSC) said on Thursday the country’s security forces are capable of maintaining security in the country. This comes just hours after US President Joe Biden and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced a full withdrawal of all foreign troops starting May 1. According to them, all troops will be out of Afghanistan by September 11 […]

The United Kingdom will pull out all its forces from Afghanistan, says a media report. The Times reported Britain’s plans Hours after US President Joe Biden’s announcement of a full troop pullout from the country by September 20. The UK would transfer control of the Military Academy in Kabul, where its troops train Afghan soldiers, to the government in Kabul. […]

The Taliban have linked participation in any conference on Afghanistan’s future to the pullout of all international forces from the country. Mohammad Naeem, spokesman for Taliban’s political office in Doha, said this in a tweet hours after President Biden announced on Tuesday withdrawing all US troops from Afghanistan by September. Naeem wrote: “Until all foreign forces withdraw from our homeland, […]

Taliban on Wednesday afternoon warned the US and NATO to stick to the agreement of troops withdrawal on May 1 and said if the Doha agreement is not adhered to problems will be “compounded” and those in breach of the deal will “be held liable”. In a series of tweets, Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, said: “The Islamic Emirate of […]

A coalition of NATO-led troops in Afghanistan will leave the country in coordination with a planned U.S. withdrawal by September 11, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in Brussels on Wednesday. His remarks came ahead of a formal announcement of the end of two decades of fighting. Around 7,000 non-U.S. forces from mainly NATO countries, but also from Australia, […]

US President Joe Biden on Wednesday night officially confirmed that American troops withdrawal from Afghanistan will start on May 1. He said the withdrawal process would be finished by September 11 – the anniversary of the 9/11 attack on the United States. Biden said: “It is time to end America’s longest war. It is time for American troops to come […]

Officials have slammed the planned unconditional withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan and said the withdrawal should be done responsibly. Speaking to Germany’s DPA news agency after news broke of US President Joe Biden’s expected announcement that troops will exit by September 11, one peace talks negotiator in Doha said: “It is the most irresponsible, selfish thing the United States […]

German and Pakistani foreign ministers discussed on Monday bilateral relations and international issues, including the situation in Afghanistan. “Peace negotiations need to be continued and violence in the country has to come to an end after decades of conflict,” Heiko Maas said during a press conference in Berlin with his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi. Qureshi arrived in Germany Sunday […]