At least one policeman was killed in an IED explosion on Wednesday morning in Kabul city, police confirmed. The target was a police Ranger vehicle.

Germany’s Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Tuesday the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan should be tied to progress in intra-Afghan negotiations rather than “slavishly” bound to the end-of-April deadline as per the US-Taliban agreement.

A Nangarhar judge was killed in an attack by unidentified gunmen in the city of Jalalabad on Wednesday morning, security officials said. According to officials, the man, identified as Hafizullah, was a judge at the Public Security and Business Department.

The Jamiat-i-Islah party head was among two people killed in a series of blasts that injured five others in different parts of Kabul on Tuesday. The first blast injured two people while targeting a vehicle of the counter-narcotics department in Joy Shir area of the 2nd police district.

The police chief for central Parwan province escaped unhurt in a landmine blast in the provincial capital on Tuesday morning.

Deputy and Acting Foreign Minister Mirwais Nab received the Ambassador of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to Kabul Mr. Huseyin Avni Botsali to discuss OIC support to the Afghan peace process, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) said in a statement on Tuesday.

Nearly 200 checkpoints manned by the Afghan National Army’s 205th Corps in Kandahar province were abandoned to the Taliban during December last year, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) stated in its latest quarterly report.

At least two people were killed and five others wounded in three explosions in Kabul city on Tuesday, sources said.

The Taliban has stated that the agreement signed between the group and the US in February last year stipulates the formation of an inclusive Islamic government in Afghanistan and the dissolution of the current administration.

NATO Spokesperson Oana Lungescu said late Sunday that no decision has yet been made on whether a full troops withdrawal will take place by May as per the US-Taliban agreement signed in February last year.