The Taliban on February 16 urged the United States to honor a landmark withdrawal deal under which all foreign troops would exit Afghanistan in the coming months, even as violence continues to rage in the war-ravaged nation.
The European Court of Human Rights on February 16 rejected a complaint against German authorities’ decision not to prosecute an officer who ordered a deadly air strike in northern Afghanistan in September 2009.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg called on the Taliban on February 15 to reduce violence in Afghanistan and said any withdrawal of allied troops would be based on the situation on the ground.
The head of Tajikistan’s State Committee for National Security, Saimumin Yatimov, has discussed regional issues and bilateral cooperation with his Afghan counterpart in Kabul.
The United Nations said at least 65 journalists and human rights activists have been killed in Afghanistan in the past three years in a series of targeted killings.
A fuel tanker exploded on the Afghan-Iranian border on February 13, causing a massive fire and a chain reaction that destroyed more than 500 trucks carrying natural gas and fuel.
At least five policemen have been killed and 12 wounded in two attacks in Afghanistan, officials said on February 13.
Pakistan's military said on February 12 that a group of militants had attacked a security post in the northwest of the country, killing four troops in the ensuing shootout along with four insurgents.
The author of best-sellers chronicling the cycles of war in Afghanistan and their impact on neighboring countries, Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid talks to Gandhara about whether a fresh U.S. approach could steady and eventually resolve the crises in the two countries.
A Taliban delegation made an unusual appearance in Ashgabat on February 6 after visits to Iran and Russia. Little information is available about the trip -- and there's near silence from the Turkmen government – so it's unclear what issues were discussed during the mystery visit.
Afghan officials say a district police chief and his bodyguards were killed after multiple bomb blasts rocked Kabul early on February 10.
Afghanistan and India have signed an agreement to build a $236 million dam that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani says will provide residents of the capital, Kabul, with clean water.
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