Afghanistan

Talks at impasse as Taliban seek direct negotiations with US

Mar 04, 2018 16:03

The Afghan government's surprising new peace offer to Taliban is immediately running into a wall as the militants show no sign of shifting from their demand that talks for a conflict-ending compromise take place with Washington, not Kabul, a media report says.
Car bomb targeting foreign troops kills 1 in Afghan capital

Mar 02, 2018 10:35

The Afghan capital has been rocked by a strong car bomb blast, which targeted foreign troops and which killed at least one person and wounded four others.
Afghan president offers direct talks with Taliban

Feb 28, 2018 06:36

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has called on the Taliban militant group to join peace talks “without preconditions,” even as he called on the outfit to accept the rule of law.
Deadly blast hits area near US Embassy in Afghan capital

Feb 24, 2018 03:28

An assailant has attacked a diplomatic district in Afghanistan’s capital, killing at least one person and injuring six others.
Afghan, Pakistani, Indian officials launch Turkmen natural gas pipeline

Feb 23, 2018 15:52

The Afghan president and Pakistani prime minister have inaugurated a 1,814 kilometer gas pipeline that will carry Turkmenistan’s natural gas to Afghanistan as well as Pakistan and India after its construction officially began on the Afghan-Turkmen border.
Afghans file 1.7 million war crime complaints with ICC

Feb 16, 2018 11:58

A human rights group says the International Criminal Court (ICC) has received over one and a half million statements of alleged war crimes from Afghan citizens in a span of three months.
US in Afghanistan because its main rivals are in neighborhood: Karzai

Feb 16, 2018 04:24

The United States is not in Afghanistan to defeat the Taliban but because America’s main rivals like China, Russia and Iran are in the neighborhood, former Afghan President Hamid Karzai says.
Taliban invites US senator for ‘mutual talks’ in Doha

Feb 12, 2018 13:10

Taliban has invited a US senator for “mutual talks” in the Qatari capital Doha, where the so-called Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has an office.
Taliban kill 6 policemen in Afghanistan's Helmand

Feb 10, 2018 15:14

At least six local policemen have been killed and several others wounded in a militant attack on their checkpoints in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand.
'US moving terror groups to Afghanistan after Iraq, Syria defeats'

Feb 06, 2018 08:27

Iran's top military commander says the United States is transferring Daesh to Afghanistan now that the terrorists have lost their strongholds in Iraq and Syria.