Al-Qaeda is gaining strength in Afghanistan under Taliban’s protection, alleges the US Treasury Department. Despite signing a peace deal with the US in February last year, the Taliban has not yet severed ties with Al-Qaeda, the Treasury Department claimed in a new report.

President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday discussed the peace process related matters with his predecessor Hamid Karzai, High Council for National Reconciliation (HCNR) chairman Dr Abdullah Abdullah and Hezb-i-Da’wat party leader Abdul RabRasoolSayyaf.

Nader Nadery, a member of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan’s (IRA) peace talks team says the negotiating teams have not held any formal meetings in the last nine days. Nadery stated in a tweet that the Taliban has not been willing to engage in the peace talks.

An influential Afghan Taliban commander has been gunned down in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar, says a media report. Commander Abdul Samad Mullah Tor was sprayed with bullets while offering morning prayers at a mosque in Muslim City area, Daily Times said

Taliban’s Red Unit deputy commander for eastern Kunar province has been killed and an Islamic State (IS) recruiter arrested in Nangarhar province, sources said on Monday. Kunar police spokesman Faridullah Dehqan told Pajhwok Afghan News that NiazSalim, deputy commander of the Taliban Red Unit, was killed by unknown armed men in Ganjgal area of Sarkano district late Sunday night.

President Ashraf Ghani and High Council for National Reconciliation (HCNR) chairman Dr. Abdullah Abdullah on Monday expressed their concern over increasing violence in the country and emphasized a permanent ceasefire.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said Sunday that any interruption in the Republic governing system would come at a great cost to the country especially as it currently provides equality to all Afghans. Speaking at a meeting with members of the Shia Ulema (scholars) Council of Afghanistan at the Presidential Palace,Ghani said: “The Republic is an umbrella and a bed where […]

Afghanistan has urged the Saudi government to play a proactive role in achieving a lasting ceasefire in the war-torn country. Foreign Minister Mohammed Haneef Atmar, who recently held wide-ranging talks with his Saudi counterpart Faisal bin Farhan, issued the call in an interview.

At least 38 militants have been killed in a security operation in the Arghandab district of southern Kandahar province.

Four Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers and six Taliban militants have been killed in two separate incidents of violence in northern Faryab province, sources said on Sunday.