The largest US military base in Afghanistan came under rocket strike early Saturday morning, officials said. Several rockets struck the Bagram Airfield in central Parwan province, but details of possible casualties from the attack were not immediately available.

Five rockets were fired at a major U.S. base in Afghanistan on Saturday, but there were no casualties, NATO and provincial officials said. The rockets hit Bagram Airfield, said Wahida Shahkar, spokeswoman for the governor in northern Parwan province.

At least 53 Taliban militants were killed and 14 others received injuries in different operations conducted in southern Kandahar, Helmand and Ghazni provinces in the last 24 hours, defense ministry said on Saturday.

The Speaker of the governor of Parwan province of Afghanistan said that Bagram airport, the largest US military base in the country, was targeted by rockets for the first time since the signing of a peace agreement with the US.

Tajikistan has deployed additional troops along its southern border with Afghanistan after Kabul authorities claimed a group of Tajik militants played a key role in the capture of a district in northern Badakhshan province.

A Taliban team, led by the co-founder of the insurgent movement, arrived Wednesday in Islamabad for talks with Pakistani government leaders amid growing calls for a reduction in violence in neighboring Afghanistan. The visit came as the Taliban unleashed a wave of attacks in Afghanistan, striking in northern Baghlan and southern Uruzgan province late on Tuesday and early Wednesday. At […]

The Taliban has opposed President Ashraf Ghani’s call to hold the next round of the peace negotiations in Afghanistan, saying the request signals fear on the republic’s side.

TOLOnews has seen a document that indicates that a 28-article list of demands has been shared verbally by the Afghan republic’s team with the Taliban, and the Taliban has verbally shared a list of 24 demands with the republic’s negotiators. The republic’s negotiators have been categorized into five sections. A discussion about a ceasefire is on the top of the […]

After more than five decades of continuous conflict, peace remains elusive in Afghanistan. The Central Asian country has a long and troubled history of foreign military occupation, covert intervention, violent acts of militant Islamism, and regional warlords. Moreover, its security has deteriorated even further due to the central government’s inability to establish internal order, secure effective territorial control of the […]

A Taliban delegation led by Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar has travelled to Pakistan in response to an invitation from Islamabad. Dr. Mohammad Naeem, Taliban’s political spokesman tweeted: “Today (Tuesday), a high level delegation led by Mullah Baradar, head of political office, left for Islamabad at the official invitation of neighboring country Pakistan.”