The Taliban called on president-elect Joe Biden to honour a US agreement to withdraw all American forces from Afghanistan by May to secure intra-Afghan peace talks and end the two-decade war.

In the southern province of Kandahar, Panjwai and Arghandab have witnessed recent battles between the Afghan security forces and the Taliban. Over 40 Afghan security force members have been killed in fighting with the Taliban over the past 24 hours, with the majority of casualties reported in volatile areas in Kunduz, Baghlan and Nimroz province.

Prices of fuel, firewood, Russian gold and ghee increased during the outgoing week in Kabul, market sources said on Saturday. A worker of Hashimi fuel station in Taimani Square said the price of one litre of petrol rose from 36afs to 40afs and the same quantity of diesel from 38afs to 43afs.

Five Taliban have been killed in an airstrike in eastern Laghman province while an individual who planned attack on security forces arrested in eastern Nangarhar province, an official and a statement said on Sunday.

Abid has found an unlikely combat role in a country where most such jobs are taken up by the Afghan security forces and the Taliban as fighting between the two sides continues.

Ghani, addressing the Taliban, said: “Terror, crime and violence are not the solutions to the problem.” Gunmen opened fire on a vehicle in Kabul around 830am on Sunday, Kabul police reported, and two female judges of the Supreme Court were killed and two other people–the driver and another female–were wounded in the attack, according to the Presidential Palace.

Gunmen shot dead two female Afghan judges working for the Supreme Court in an ambush in the country’s capital on Sunday, officials said, an attack that the top US envoy in Kabul blamed on the Taliban. Violence has surged across Afghanistan in recent months despite ongoing peace talks between the Taliban and government – especially in Kabul, where a new […]

Gunmen shot dead two Afghan women judges working for the Supreme Court during an early morning ambush in the country’s capital Sunday, officials said, as a wave of assassinations continues to rattle the nation.

The commander of the Afghan Army’s 111 Division says there is “no concern” about foreign forces withdrawal. An army commander on Sunday said that the Taliban is trying to “conduct terrorist activities” in areas near the capital city but pledged they will be prevented.

Only 250 Afghan Sikhs and Hindus have remained in Afghanistan following the evacuation of hundreds of their community members from cities across the country last year.