Foreign ministers of India, China, Pakistan and five other member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) began a key meeting in Dushanbe, Tajikistan on Wednesday with a focus on the situation in Afghanistan. India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, who is attending the meeting, tweeted during the day that the world, the region and the Afghan people all want […]

Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Interior Sheikh Rashid Ahmed told reporters on Sunday that a “new, civilised Afghan Taliban” would prefer talks to guns. He also said Islamabad would accept any government in Afghanistan that has the backing of the Afghan people, Dawn News reported. According to him, all stakeholders in Afghanistan should come to the negotiating tables to find a […]

The commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan General Scott Miller is stepping down Monday in a move that marks the symbolic end of the U.S. military mission in the country. Miller has commanded the military coalition in Afghanistan since August 2018, longer than any previous commanding general in that position and will turn over command of U.S. Forces […]

US Forces commander in Afghanistan General Scott Miller officially handed over command of US and NATO troops in the country to the commander of US Central Command (CENTCOM) Marine General Frank McKenzie, at a ceremony in Kabul on Monday. Addressing the ceremony, Miller stated that the US will continue to support the government and the Afghan Security and Defense Forces […]

Qatar’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani met on Monday with US Special Representative for Peace in Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad to discuss the Afghan peace process and regional stability. According to Qatar’s The Peninsula, relations of bilateral cooperation between Qatar and the US were reviewed during the meeting, as well as the latest […]

Ned Price, US State Department spokesman, on Wednesday, urged Afghanistan’s neighbors to play a constructive role in Afghan peace talks “in order for there to be a just and durable peace” in the country. “What Iran is trying to do or is in the process of doing by hosting this meeting may well be constructive. I think the jury is […]

Clashes between security forces and the Taliban began on Wednesday after the group attacked several parts of the city. Afghan security forces on Thursday again pushed back a Taliban attack on Qala-e-Naw, the capital of Badghis province in western Afghanistan. Clashes between security forces and the Taliban began on Wednesday after the group attacked several parts of the city. Thursday […]

Local officials in Kabul province’s Sarobi district, east of Kabul city, on Thursday said that 70 villages out of 130 are under Taliban control. Kabul governor Mohammad Yaqoub said that militants associated with Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba and other groups are playing a role in the fight in Sarobi. Residents in Sarobi said that the Taliban has threatened to launch an attack […]

Local security sources in Ghazni province said that the Afghan National Security and Defense Forces (ANDSF) were engaged in a heavy firefight with Taliban insurgents after the group launched an attack last night on the Shahrak-e-Muhajirin area of the provincial capital Ghazni city. According to the sources, the Taliban managed to infiltrate the area and raise their flag. However, the […]

Balkh governor Mohammad Farhad Azimi said on Thursday that of the 5,000 fighters that were pledged by political leaders and other influential figures in Balkh as part of the public uprising forces, 1,500 have already been deployed in fighting positions to face the Taliban alongside security forces. Azimi said that the political leaders have not managed to mobilize the entire […]