Amnesty International is urging the Afghan government and the international community to scale up efforts to support the country’s 4 million internally displaced people who it says have “little or no means” of protecting themselves from contracting, spreading, and recovering from COVID-19.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has sketched out parts of his peace proposal at a regional summit, hinting for the first time he may be open to a possible transitional government leading to early elections.
Afghan officials say unknown gunmen have killed three female polio vaccination health workers in the eastern city of Jalalabad.
An Afghan human rights group says it is investigating the alleged killing of civilians during fighting between government forces and Taliban insurgents in the eastern province of Khost.
There is a risk that Afghanistan’s non-Muslim minorities, many of whose members fled during the tumultuous decades following the 1978 communist coup, could vanish completely if peace does not follow the departure of international troops this year.
Washington's special envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad has traveled to Turkey and the region as part of an effort to encourage the Taliban and the Afghan government to work toward a peace agreement as a deadline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops looms.
Afghan officials say more than a dozen police officers have been killed in attacks by the Taliban in the country’s volatile south.
The city of Paris has inaugurated a pathway in the Champs-Elysees gardens named after the late Afghan resistance fighter and anti-Taliban leader Ahmad Shah Masud.
The Taliban has threatened to resume hostilities against foreign troops in Afghanistan if they do not withdraw by May 1 as stipulated in a 2020 deal between the militant group and the United States.
President Joe Biden has said it will be "hard" to meet the May 1 deadline to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan as part of a deal signed with the Taliban last year.
The Taliban has flatly rejected a proposal by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to hold snap elections within six months or a year right after a peace deal is signed with the militant group.
Pakistani officials say three people have been killed and at least 13 others injured in a bomb blast near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
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