Firefighters struggled for a second day Sunday to battle a massive fire that began when a fuel tanker exploded at a major crossing in Afghanistan´s western Herat province on the Iranian border, officials said.

The Taleban have been encroaching on key cities around Afghanistan for months, threatening to drive the country to its breaking point and push the Biden administration into a no-win situation just as the United States’ longest war is supposed to be coming to an end.

An Afghan negotiator says international forces withdrawal in the absence of an agreement on peace will lead to a civil war. As the NATO defense ministers meeting comes to a close, the Taliban in a message to NATO leaders said the continuation of foreign forces’ presence in Afghanistan is neither in favor of the international organization nor does it benefit […]

Five police personnel have been killed in a bomb blast in eastern Kunar province, a public representative said on Saturday.

The National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Saturday claimed killing a Daesh insurgent in eastern Nangarhar province.

Pakistan has vehemently denounced the use of Afghanistan’s soil to attack military personnel and civilians. At least two attacks had been launched from Afghanistan on targets inside Pakistan in February so far, a spokesman for the Foreign Office said.

The deployment of German troops in Afghanistan should be extended, suggests Foreign Minister Heiko Maas. DPA quoted Maas as proposing the extension in Germany’s military mission in comments to the Funke Media Group newspapers.

A Humvee tank, loaded with explosives, targeted Afghan security forces in southern Kandahar province early Saturday leaving at least seven wounded, sources said.

A Daesh militant was killed in an operation by the National Directorate of Security (NDS) forces in eastern Nangarhar province on Friday night, the NDS said in a statement on Saturday.

A massive fire broke at the Islam Qala customs facility in western Herat on Saturday afternoon, Waheed Qatali, governor of Herat province confirmed.Pictures on social media show plumes of black smoke billowing into the sky – with sources confirming dozens of fuel tankers are on fire at the border town customs facility.