A well-known state ministry of peace official and media outlet owner escaped unharmed after an IED ripped through his armored Landcruiser that he was traveling in early Monday morning in Kabul. Shortly afterwards a second explosion claimed the lives of two people, a civilian and a security force member when an IED was detonated against a military vehicle.

As the administration has changed in Washington, pundits see changes vis-à-vis the US policy towards different regions. The Afghanistan war is in one of the to-do lists issues Biden has to resolve. Since Obama’s first term, winding up the Afghan war has been a key objective in US South Asia policy. Though an agreement with the Taliban for a future […]

NATO spokesperson says no decision has been made and NATO defense ministers will address Afghanistan at their February meeting. The Reuters report quoting anonymous sources saying international forces will stay in Afghanistan beyond the May deadline has drawn responses from official NATO spokespeople, analysts and the Taliban.

The blast happened about 12:00pm local time after an IED exploded on an army vehicle in Jangalak area in PD7 of Kabul city. At least one civilian and a security force member were killed in a blast on an army vehicle in Kabul on Monday afternoon, Kabul police said in a statement.

Two civilians meanwhile were wounded in an attack by armed robbers in Kabul’s PD12 on Sunday evening. Five people were killed in targeted attacks in Kabul and two were wounded in attacks by armed robbers in less than 24 hours, according to security officials and sources.

Continued chaos in Afghanistan serves someone’s purpose, says deputy of Takhar province The Afghan people hold the US administration responsible for the chaos ensuing in their country, a senior Afghan official said on Saturday.

Whatever U.S. government officials may claim about the war in Afghanistan, the Taliban know that they have won. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani reportedly said on Friday that the Taliban are pushing the narrative that the United States has been “defeated,” Fox News reporter Lucas Tomilson tweeted. (The Taliban later denied making such claims after this story was initially published.)

The National Directorate of Security (NDS), the Afghan spy agency, said on Saturday that it captured the Taliban’s shadow governor for Kabul. Identified as Mohammad, and popularly known as Haji Lala, he was involved in the recent wave of assassinations and kidnapping that have gripped the Afghan capital, a senior NDS official told The National.

At least 15 security forces members were killed and five others were wounded in a Taliban attack near the city of Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar province. A suicide bomber drove a vehicle loaded with explosives into a base for Afghan defence forces in the country’s east on Saturday, killing at least 15 security personnel in an attack claimed by […]

Eight soldiers were killed as a car bomb went off next to a military base in Shirzad district of Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province on Saturday, said a statement of provincial government released here.