The US envoy leading the so-called “peace talks” with the Taliban terrorist group has confirmed “significant progress” in the negotiations amid claims by the group that the American side has agreed to a troop-withdrawal deal.

U.S. and Taliban officials have agreed in principle to the “framework” of a peace deal, U.S. special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad said after five days of talks between the militant group and the United States in Qatar.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Monday called on the Taliban movement to engage in direct negotiations with the country’s authorities, reaffirming the importance of national unity and a strong government.

A top Russian diplomat is in Pakistan to discuss efforts to promote direct peace talks between warring sides in neighboring Afghanistan.

En forçant un peu la bienveillance, on pourrait accorder un généreux 13/20 au président Ashraf Ghani, qui a réussi, malgré tous les obstacles, à tenir les élections législatives prévues depuis… 2015.

Around 65 people were killed in a Taliban-claimed attack on an Afghan intelligence base, a local official said yesterday, raising the toll substantially from 12 announced previously. “We took about 65 bodies out of the rubble yesterday,” Mohammad Sardar Bakhyari, deputy head of the provincial council in Wardak province, where the attack occurred on Monday in the latest blow to […]

The Taliban are consistently taking heavy losses in the battlefield and military offensives and Afghanistan’s armed forces killed at least 56 militants and injured 22 others in crackdowns over past day.

The United States (US) Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Qatar Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani on January 13 said Doha and Washington will work together on the Afghanistan peace process and addressing regional security challenges.

The Afghan government on Monday said that the regional countries’ attempts to engage in rivalry in the peace process in Afghanistan is quite harmful and the issue further complicates the peace process. Meanwhile, US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad has arrived in Beijing where he is holding talks with senior Chinese officials about the peace process in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Abdullah Abdullah said that India is seeking peace in Afghanistan. Abdullah gave this statement while addressing a session with the Council of Ministers here on Monday.