The Taliban say “decent progress” has been made in talks with senior Afghan politicians in Moscow but that there has been no breakthrough towards ending two decades of the US occupation of Afghanistan.

Hosting Taliban delegates and Afghan politicians in an effort to promote itself as a peacemaker in Afghanistan, Russia has called for the complete withdrawal of international forces from the war-ravaged country.

The Taliban and Russia have jointly called for the withdrawal of U.S.-led coalition troops from Afghanistan, with a top leader of the Islamist insurgent group denouncing the foreign presence in the country as a major obstacle to Afghan peace.

A 14-member delegation of the Taliban headed by Mullah Baradar is set to have two meetings in the Russian capital. A delegation of Taliban officials led by the group’s chief negotiator is set to meet Afghan politicians in Moscow this week, officials said on Monday, as fighting continues in Afghanistan and the United States pursues a peace dialogue with the […]

Bindu Sampath listens over and over to a voicemail of the giggling granddaughter she’s never met. She wonders if she ever will. Sampath’s daughter Nimisha, the child’s mother, abruptly left their native India three years ago. She’d gone to dental school a few hundred miles north of their hometown in the southwestern state of Kerala. It was there that she […]

The US and NATO Forces Commander in Afghanistan Gen. Scott Miller has said that there are some indications about the movements of al-Qaeda elements in some parts of Afghanistan but gave no details about the nature of these movements.

Al Qaeda is operating “across the country” and not confined to one region, the commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan confirmed.

The collapse of the Islamic State’s self-declared caliphate in Syria and Iraq is doing little to slow down the terror group’s branch in Afghanistan.

President Trump should be lauded for working toward a withdrawal from Afghanistan, where 14,000 U.S. troops still remain. But he should not expect to leave behind a peaceful situation in the failed state, which is made up of a complex web of tribal divisions and hostilities.

The armed group’s attack in Shamulzayi district of Zabul province also leaves at least four soldiers wounded. A Taliban attack on two military checkpoints has left 10 Afghan army members dead in southern Zabul province, officials said.