Mangal Bagh along with 2 other militants killed in roadside bomb attack in Nangarhar, local official says A key commander of Pakistani militants was killed in eastern Afghanistan, a local official said on Thursday.

The Trump administration-set level of 2,500 American troops in Afghanistan is enough to achieve the decades-old U.S. mission there, but a full withdrawal by May is a “big if” due to Taliban violence, the Pentagon’s top spokesman said.

The deputy head of the Taliban negotiating team that is holding peace talks with the Afghan government, met Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special envoy for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov and other Foreign Ministry officials during the Moscow visit.

“The Taliban is fighting against the people of Afghanistan, not against the US,” Afghan Chief of Army Staff Gen. Zia said. Afghanistan’s Chief of Army Staff Gen. Mohammad Yasin Zia, in reaction to a tweet of Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said: “Unfortunately, your understanding of the current war in Afghanistan is incorrect. The Taliban […]

Reports that a strategy has been finalized under which the Afghan government and the Taliban would share power and would be given control of areas currently under their respective control are misleading.

The Taliban have rejected the Pentagon statement on violating Doha Agreement and said the group was committed to every article of the agreement.

On a Tuesday in late October, an Afghan cleric, Sheikh Raheemullah Nangahari, was giving a speech in his madrassa in Peshawar, near Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan, when a blast ripped through the prayer hall, injuring him and killing eight others.

On a Tuesday in late October, an Afghan cleric, Sheikh Raheemullah Nangahari, was giving a speech in his madrassa in Peshawar, near Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan, when a blast ripped through the prayer hall, injuring him and killing eight others.

The Taliban are not meeting the promises they made in the peace deal with the US, including a reduction in violence and cutting ties with Al-Qaeda, said Department of Defense or Pentagon on Thursday. “We are still involved in trying to get a negotiated settlement. The Taliban have not met their commitments,” said John Kirby, spokesman for Pentagon.

Antony Blinken, US Secretary of State in a phone conversation with President Ghani discussed the Afghan peace process and the US commitment toward Afghanistan, said the US State Department in a statement on Thursday.