The Afghan authorities said yesterday they had foiled a plan by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group to assassinate the top US envoy in Kabul, as a wave of targeted killings continues to rock the country. Intelligence officers dismantled a four-member ISIS cell in the eastern province of Nangarhar that had planned to murder Mr Ross Wilson […]

Abstract: A key question for the future of Afghanistan is if the United States withdraws the remainder of its forces from the country, would Afghanistan’s security forces or the Taliban be stronger militarily? According to a net assessment conducted by the author across five factors—size, material resources, external support, force employment, and cohesion—the Taliban would have a slight military advantage […]

Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Haneef Atmar met with US Embassy’s Charge d’affairs in Kabul Ross Wilson to discuss cooperation with the incoming US administration on the Afghan peace, security, stability, and issues of bilateral interests.

Deported from Germany, 26 Afghans on Wednesday arrived in Kabul on a special flight.

Camp Chapman, once the scene of the CIA’s second-deadliest day, was hit again in December—but never reported. Eleven years after one of the largest losses of life in CIA history at a notorious military base in southeastern Afghanistan, Camp Chapman was attacked again in early December, a seemingly blatant violation of the U.S.-Taliban peace agreement.

“The Prime Minister conveyed Pakistan’s commitment to strengthen the bilateral relationship with Afghanistan,” the PM’s office said. Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday during his meeting with Karim Khalili, the head of Hizb-e-Wahdat-e-Islami in Islamabad said that “a peaceful and stable Afghanistan will open up new vistas of cooperation in trade and regional connectivity.”

Miller made the remarks on a trip to the southern Kandahar province on Tuesday where he was accompanied by Afghan Army Chief Gen. Yasin Zia. Gen. Scott Miller, the US and NATO forces commander in Afghanistan, has said that the Taliban’s continued violence is an obstacle in the way toward peace in Afghanistan.

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan met with Afghan politician Mohammad Karim Khalili on Tuesday and discussed bilateral relations and the Afghan peace process.

Intra-Afghan talks have resumed after a 20-day recess amid increased attacks and assassinations in Kabul along with trepidation over what comes next. On one hand, the Afghan government must accept that calling the U.S.-Afghan relationship an “alliance” does not change the reality that it is merely a partnership with a dwindling number of shared goals. In fact, the opportunity to […]

High on the agenda is the continuing peace process between the Afghan government and the Afghan Taliban. A prominent Afghan Shia Muslim leader has held talks with Pakistan’s foreign minister, as that country continues to reel from the brutal killing of 10 Shia coal miners in a targeted attack in the southwest earlier this month.