The Trump administration-set level of 2,500 American troops in Afghanistan is enough to achieve the decades-old U.S. mission there, but a full withdrawal by May is a “big if” due to Taliban violence, the Pentagon’s top spokesman said.

The deputy head of the Taliban negotiating team that is holding peace talks with the Afghan government, met Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special envoy for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov and other Foreign Ministry officials during the Moscow visit.

The incident happened in Alamkhil village in Balkh district of Balkh province this morning. Nasratullah Yemen, a commander of the ANA 209 Shaheen Corps, was killed in a mortar attack that wounded four others in the northern province of Balkh on Thursday morning, said local military officials.

“The Taliban is fighting against the people of Afghanistan, not against the US,” Afghan Chief of Army Staff Gen. Zia said. Afghanistan’s Chief of Army Staff Gen. Mohammad Yasin Zia, in reaction to a tweet of Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said: “Unfortunately, your understanding of the current war in Afghanistan is incorrect. The Taliban […]

The document shows that the request has been approved by the High Council of the bank, despite opposition by some former officials from the bank. A document seen by TOLOnews shows that Asil Gul Totakhel, the comptroller of the Central Bank of Afghanistan, has used government funds to buy a house and for personal travel.

A Taliban Qatar office delegation led by Mullah Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai has gone to Russia, the movement’s political office in Doha said on Thursday.

Reports that a strategy has been finalized under which the Afghan government and the Taliban would share power and would be given control of areas currently under their respective control are misleading.

The Taliban are not meeting the promises they made in the peace agreement with the United States, including reducing violence and cutting ties with Al-Qaeda, the Pentagon said Thursday.

The Taliban have rejected the Pentagon statement on violating Doha Agreement and said the group was committed to every article of the agreement.

On a Tuesday in late October, an Afghan cleric, Sheikh Raheemullah Nangahari, was giving a speech in his madrassa in Peshawar, near Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan, when a blast ripped through the prayer hall, injuring him and killing eight others.