The United States should urgently re-open talks with the Taliban to delay a full withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan beyond the May 1 deadline agreed to by the Trump administration, a bipartisan experts group recommended Wednesday after months of studying potential pathways to peace.

At least ten security forces members were killed and 11 others were wounded in separate attacks in Sar-e-Pul and Uruzgan provinces, local officials said.

The Taliban has been saying that the US strikes were against the spirit of the US-Taliban peace deal. The Pentagon on Wednesday reiterated that any withdrawal from Afghanistan will be conditions-based.

There have already been many military maneuvers, political pivots and plot twists since the U.S. inked a peace deal with the Taliban late last month. But the one development that could finally bring a measure of clarity to Afghanistan in the long term is the International Criminal Court’s decision on March 5 to approve opening a full investigation into allegations […]

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ appeal in March for a global cease-fire amid the coronavirus pandemic made no impression on the Taliban. Through April, the militant group’s commanders seemed generally dismissive of the risks posed by COVID-19 as they ramped up their annual spring offensive.

After more than a month of negotiations between the Taliban and the Afghan government, progress toward a peace agreement remains slow. The key unknown variable is whether the United States has an appetite for staying involved in the long grind of overseeing a peace process that must reconcile two divergent views of Afghanistan’s future—which can only be answered by the […]

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.

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.