Afghan officials have confirmed that the Taliban has used “weaponized drones” in some attacks on government forces in recent weeks. The officials said “the Taliban embeds mortar rounds or small bombs with the drones and drop them on military and government installations.”

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.

The leader of the Hezb-e-Islami, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, will fly to Doha amid fragile peace negotiations that have been at pause after Kabul University attack and other deadly insurgent attacks around the country. Although the Taliban denied responsibility, the Afghan government blames the militants for the attack which killed dozens of students.

A suicide car bomber in Afghanistan killed at least four people and wounded 40 in an attack on a police base in the country’s southern Kandahar province, a provincial official said Monday.

A district police chief and his bodyguard were killed in a militants attack in west Afghanistan’s Farah province on Sunday, the provincial police chief said.

At least four security forces members were killed and six more were wounded in Taliban attacks in different areas in the northern province of Baghlan in the last 24 hours, security sources said on Sunday.

Officials from state-owned Central Bank on Sunday said less information is available on Saturday’s attack in the Makrorayan-e-Char area in Kabul that killed three people including Yama Siawash, former TOLOnews presenter and a media adviser at the bank.

Clashes between the Afghan forces and the Taliban are underway in the southern provinces of Helmand, Kandahar, Uruzgan and Zabul for the last month as the group has intensified its attacks despite ongoing efforts for peace to end the four decades of war in the country.

The attack on former Afghan TV presenter Yama Siawash was widely condemned by the Afghan government and foreign diplomats in Kabul who called for the safety of journalists in the country. The attack happened on Saturday morning near Siawash’s residence in the Makrorayan-e-Char area in Kabul.