While peace talks present an opportunity for the US to extricate itself from a decades-old conflict in Afghanistan, they will also pose one of the greatest foreign policy challenges for the Biden administration, the International Crisis Group reported in its latest briefing this week.

The Biden administration has been asked to keep US troops in Afghanistan beyond the May 1 deadline and avoid abandoning intra-Afghan peace negotiations. The need for a delay in withdrawing American forces from the country was underlined in a congressionally-mandated report that was released on Wednesday, according to Reuters.

Noorullah Nazari, Head of NDS for Ghoryan district in western Herat province, was killed in a skirmish with Taliban militants, local officials confirmed.

A bipartisan report to US Congress stated that Washington should not abandon Afghanistan and instead extend the May 1 deadline for withdrawing the remaining troops.

The report also said that the violence continued in Afghanistan despite renewed calls from US officials. The Taliban and Deash have increased targeted assassinations outside of Kabul and that the Taliban attacks in the Afghan capital are on the rise, with increasing targeted killings of government officials, civil society leaders and journalists, the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction […]

The clashes took place in PD1 of Kunduz city when the Taliban attacked a security outpost. At least four policemen were killed and three more were wounded in a Taliban attack on Monday night, said Fawzia Yaftali, a provincial council member.

The explosion occurred in Surkh Rod district, according to local officials. At least one border police officer was killed and two more were wounded in an explosion in the eastern province of Nangarhar on Tuesday morning, local officials said.

The incident happened at around 08:30 am in Tangi Tarakhil area east of Kabul. One police force member was killed and three more were wounded in an explosion that targeted their vehicle in Kabul on Wednesday morning, police confirmed in a statement.

However, the Office of National Security Council (ONSC) has said that it is premature to talk about the political system in Afghanistan.

The incident happened at around 08:30 am in Tangi Tarakhil area east of Kabul. One police force member was killed and three more were wounded in an explosion that targeted their vehicle in Kabul on Wednesday morning, police confirmed in a statement.