The Taliban staged attacks on a daily basis in at least 22 provinces of the country over the past week, says the Ministry of Defense (MoD). In a statement on Friday, the ministry slammed the Taliban attacks as a violation of the spirit of a political settlement and opposed to the will of the people for peace.

Since February this year, 10 US military bases in Afghanistan have been closed, reports a leading American newspaper. The US inked a landmark peace pact with the Taliban on February 29, providing for the pullout of foreign forces from Afghanistan.

While Mr Trump has fulfilled his side of the bargain by overseeing a significant reduction in America’s military presence from 9,000 to 4,500 troops since the deal was signed, the Taliban has been less forthcoming in terms of honouring its side of the deal.

People in the United States continue to pretend that the despair and futility we’ve caused isn’t our fault. Late last week, I learned from young Afghan Peace Volunteer friends in Kabul that an insurgent group firing rockets into the city center hit the home of one volunteer’s relatives. Everyone inside was killed. Today, word arrived of two bomb blasts in […]

As Afghanistan’s immediate neighbours shut their doors, many refugees embark on the treacherous journey to Europe. But few find a welcome there. Every Sunday, Hamdi Mohseni, his wife Serda, and their five remaining children, walk the 15km from their apartment to the paupers’ cemetery where their daughter Zahra is buried. Mohseni brings a ballpoint pen with him to trace the […]

President Ashraf Ghani who addressed the opening ceremony of the Afghanistan 2020 Conference in Geneva on Tuesday called on the Taliban to agree on an immediate ceasefire to move the peace process forward and end the suffering of the people of the country.

Turkey pledged to provide $75 million in aid to Afghanistan over the next two years at the 2020 Afghanistan Conference in Geneva, the Turkish Foreign Ministry announced Tuesday.

First Vice President Amrullah Saleh said security forces had arrested nine militants in the past three hours who were involved in various crimes. First Vice President Amrullah Saleh wrote on his Facebook page, that in series of Special operations nine militants were arrests, including Islamic State-Taliban members, in the past 24 hours.

In 2013, the Australian government paid a PR company AUD 277,000 ($203,000) of taxpayer money to buy up advertising spots on TV, radio and print publications in Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan. A portion of the funds also went to distributing 20,000 notebooks with Australian government advertisements on the front and back covers to Afghan secondary school and university students.

Mike Pompeo, US secretary addressed to Geneva conference on Tuesday saying that the United States remains committed to an enduring partnership with Afghanistan, and to help Afghan peace negotiations.