The Taliban has increased its presence in areas where the Afghan National Security and Defense Forces (ANDSF) left military installations and checkpoints.

At least 36 people have been wounded–including three military personnel–in the Jabriel area of Herat city after shooting broke out between security forces and armed men affiliated with a local strongman named Habibullah Ghoryani on Wednesday, according to Herat health officials. Fighting is still ongoing, said local sources on Wednesday night. “Three police personnel and 11 civilians have been transferred […]

The European Union (EU) in a statement has called on an end to targeted attacks on journalists and women in Afghanistan and says the violence in Afghanistan must stop. The EU said that the attack on the three female workers in Nangarhar, in atrocious, planned assassinations deprives three young individuals of their future and their families, friends, and colleagues of […]

A US State Department official on condition of anonymity told TOLOnews on Wednesday that the United States has suggested an international conference on Afghanistan.

Russia has hinted at hosting next rounds of the ongoing intra-Afghan peace negotiations, which remain snail-paced over the past two months President Putin’s special envoy for Afghanistan said on Wednesday: “Despite reports on the resumption of meetings by the negotiating teams after a 45-day lull, we need to acknowledge that there is still an impasse in Doha.”

Unidentified gunmen shot dead seven workers of a plaster factory in eastern Nangarhar province last night, an official said on Thursday.

The papers are full of suggestions on what US President Joe Biden should do about his country’s seemingly perennial involvement in Afghanistan. None are particularly useful, in that they ignore the central premise that a nation state long mauled, molested and savaged should finally be left alone. Nonsense, say the media and political cognoscenti. The Guardian claims that he is […]

Seven factory workers in Sorkhurd district in Nangarhar were killed by unknown gunmen on Wednesday night, the provincial police chief, Major General Juma Gul Himmat said Thursday.

Herat officials said Thursday at least 32 civilians were wounded in a shootout between security forces and local strongman Habibullah Ghoryani who has been accused of a range of alleged crimes. Police said in a statement that Ghoryani and his guards were suspected of being involved in drug trafficking, kidnapping, land grabbing, extortion and other illegal activities.

A female doctor was killed and two other people including a child were wounded in two separate IED explosions in PD5 and PD3 of Jalalabad city on Thursday morning, said Farid Khan, spokesman for Nangarhar police.