The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) on Sunday called for a thorough investigation into claims of civilian casualties resulting from a government-back operation in Khost province. The commission said that it too will probe the incident and the reports of civilian casualties.

Abdullah Abdullah, head of the High Council for National Reconciliation, said that the upcoming conference in Turkey is a unique opportunity for peace and that he hopes it will help form an agreement on ceasefire in the country. Abdullah, who was in France this weekend, said in an interview with France 24 that he hopes all sides will take advantage […]

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday that American forces will only withdraw from Afghanistan in coordination with their NATO allies. “We’ve been very clear, and NATO has been very clear, that the approach that we’re taking to this is we went in together, we’ve adapted to circumstances together and we will come out together when the time […]

Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi will attend the 9th Heart of Asia-Istanbul Process ministerial meeting in Dushanbe, Tajikistan this week. According to Pakistan’s foreign office, Qureshi will deliver a statement “highlighting Pakistan’s positive contributions to the Afghan peace process and its support for Afghanistan’s development and connectivity within the regional framework.”

President Ashraf Ghani on Monday met with his Tajik counterpart Emomali Rahmon in Dushanbe and both discussed the strengthening of Afghanistan-Tajikistan ties in various sectors, the Presidential Palace said. “Cooperation and relations between the two countries–that have a common language, culture and civilization–are based on the principle of brotherhood and on our being neighbors,” Rahmon said in the meeting as […]

Over the past year, almost every day at least one car has exploded in Kabul — terrifying residents with a rise in crude sticky bombs. Sticky bombs slapped onto cars trapped in Kabul’s chaotic traffic are the newest weapons terrorizing Afghans in the increasingly lawless nation, as Washington searches for a responsible exit after decades of war. The primitive devices, […]

Local officials confirmed to TOLOnews the presence of foreign fighters and their families in two districts of the eastern province of Laghman. Laghman governor Rahmatullah Yarmal said that the fighters and their families are living in Alishang and Dawlat Abad districts in the province and that they are providing military training to the Taliban.

The dates and the agenda for the Turkey conference, which many consider to be a significant event for Afghanistan’s future, have not been finalized, but it is expected that the summit will be held in early April. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has reiterated that there has to be “some kind of political settlement in Afghanistan” and that it […]

AFGHANISTAN Fighting escalated between government security forces and a Hazara militia in Wardak province after a helicopter carrying special forces troops was shot down on 18 March by what appeared to have been advanced weaponry, killing at least ten government soldiers. Crisis Group expert Andrew Watkins says the government blames the militia and has dispatched reinforcements in Wardak, targeting areas […]

A bomb explosion in Pakistan’s southwestern Baluchistan province Tuesday killed at least four people and wounded 13 others. Police said the explosive device was hidden in a motorcycle parked near an office of the Levies paramilitary force in Chaman, a remote Pakistani town next to the Afghan border. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the deadly bombing. Rescue workers and […]