After more than a month of negotiations between the Taliban and the Afghan government, progress toward a peace agreement remains slow. The key unknown variable is whether the United States has an appetite for staying involved in the long grind of overseeing a peace process that must reconcile two divergent views of Afghanistan’s future—which can only be answered by the […]

The Taliban has stated that the agreement signed between the group and the US in February last year stipulates the formation of an inclusive Islamic government in Afghanistan and the dissolution of the current administration.

At least one policeman was killed in an IED explosion on Wednesday morning in Kabul city, police confirmed. The target was a police Ranger vehicle.

The Jamiat-i-Islah party head was among two people killed in a series of blasts that injured five others in different parts of Kabul on Tuesday. The first blast injured two people while targeting a vehicle of the counter-narcotics department in Joy Shir area of the 2nd police district.

Deputy and Acting Foreign Minister Mirwais Nab received the Ambassador of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to Kabul Mr. Huseyin Avni Botsali to discuss OIC support to the Afghan peace process, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) said in a statement on Tuesday.

Nearly 200 checkpoints manned by the Afghan National Army’s 205th Corps in Kandahar province were abandoned to the Taliban during December last year, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) stated in its latest quarterly report.

At least two people were killed and five others wounded in three explosions in Kabul city on Tuesday, sources said.

The Taliban has stated that the agreement signed between the group and the US in February last year stipulates the formation of an inclusive Islamic government in Afghanistan and the dissolution of the current administration.

NATO Spokesperson Oana Lungescu said late Sunday that no decision has yet been made on whether a full troops withdrawal will take place by May as per the US-Taliban agreement signed in February last year.

The Taliban early Monday said there was no truth in the claims made Sunday by the foreign community in Afghanistan that it was killing civilians, destroying public infrastructure and carrying out assassinations. In a statement published on their website, the Taliban stated: “Representatives of a number of European and other countries have baselessly asserted through a statement that the Islamic […]