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.

Despite concerted efforts on the part of the United States to get the Taliban to reduce its levels of violence in the country, the group has failed to listen to calls from the US and in fact dislike being criticized.

Ahmad Zia Saraj, the acting head of the national directorate of security (NDS), said Monday that because the Taliban has active and secure strongholds in Pakistani cities, the group has been able to intensify the conflict in Afghanistan.

The Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force Afghanistan Inquiry was always going to make for a gruesome read – and that was only the redacted version. The findings of the four-year investigation, led by New South Wales Court of Appeal Justice and Army Reserve Major-General Paul Brereton, point to “credible evidence” that 39 Afghan non-combatants and prisoners were allegedly killed […]

The Wolesi Jirga, or Lower House of Parliament, on Tuesday canceled its session which was scheduled to hear operational plans by nominee ministers after First Vice President Amrullah Saleh said some MPs were corrupt.

At least 10 Taliban were killed and 12 others wounded after the insurgents attacked Afghan forces outposts in Khwaja–Alwan area of Pul-e-Khumri and in Baghlan-e-Markazi district of the province, said Baghlan police. Baghlan police, spokesman Ahmad Jawid Basharat, said that four Afghan troops were also killed in the attacks and three others wounded. On the other hand, Shajan Ayoubi, a […]

Two Taliban attacks were repulsed last night in Baghlan, and the group suffered casualties. Baghlan police chief Mohammad Wais Samimi told BNA that a group of Taliban insurgents attacked an ANA checkpoint in the area of Qala-e-Khaja Dand Ghori.

The Pakistani military said two soldiers were also injured during the raid in Pakistan’s North Waziristan. Pakistan’s military has said a soldier and four rebel fighters have been killed in a shoot-out during a raid near the border with Afghanistan.

About 23 mortar shells slammed into different parts of the Afghan capital on Saturday, killing at least eight people and wounding 31 others, an official said.