A survey by an Afghan news agency shows that the Taliban controls at least 52 percent of the country’s territory while 59 percent of the population lives in areas under the government’s control. The survey conducted by Pajhwok Afghan News shows that the Afghan government controls 46 percent of the territory.

Taliban blamed the Afghan government for prolonging violence and said it is firm in its commitments. Afghanistan’s National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib at a press briefing on Saturday said the Taliban has does not have the authority for negotiations and that group so far has shown no desire for peace and is seeking to seize absolute power.

President Ashraf Ghani said Sunday that the Soviet Union troop withdrawal from Afghanistan had been “irresponsible” and without proper planning the country slid into a devastating civil war.

Two explosions of fuel tankers at the Islam Qala border crossing between Afghanistan’s western province of Herat and Iran were powerful enough to be spotted from space by NASA satellites on Saturday afternoon.

A total of 30 Taliban militants were killed after their explosive device went off inside a mosque in Dawlatabad district of the northern Balkh Province on Saturday, an Afghanistan army spokesman in the northern region, Mohammad Hanif Rezai said.

Firefighters struggled for a second day Sunday to battle a massive fire that began when a fuel tanker exploded at a major crossing in Afghanistan´s western Herat province on the Iranian border, officials said.

The Taleban have been encroaching on key cities around Afghanistan for months, threatening to drive the country to its breaking point and push the Biden administration into a no-win situation just as the United States’ longest war is supposed to be coming to an end.

An Afghan negotiator says international forces withdrawal in the absence of an agreement on peace will lead to a civil war. As the NATO defense ministers meeting comes to a close, the Taliban in a message to NATO leaders said the continuation of foreign forces’ presence in Afghanistan is neither in favor of the international organization nor does it benefit […]

Pakistan has vehemently denounced the use of Afghanistan’s soil to attack military personnel and civilians. At least two attacks had been launched from Afghanistan on targets inside Pakistan in February so far, a spokesman for the Foreign Office said.

The deployment of German troops in Afghanistan should be extended, suggests Foreign Minister Heiko Maas. DPA quoted Maas as proposing the extension in Germany’s military mission in comments to the Funke Media Group newspapers.