Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has said after meeting Taliban representatives in Islamabad that he is concerned about “the high level of violence in Afghanistan.”
The United States' top general met earlier this week with Taliban officials in Qatar before heading to Afghanistan for senior meetings in an effort to kick-start stalled Afghan peace talks and reduce violence as efforts continue to end a nearly 20-year-long conflict.
Afghan authorities say a group of militants from Tajikistan played a key role in the recent Taliban takeover of a district. It prompted Tajikistan to deploy additional troops along the border and launch a campaign using the relatives of the militants to plead with them via video to come home.
A group of 30 rejected asylum seekers has arrived in Kabul after being deported from Germany, officials from the Afghan Refugees and Repatriation Ministry said on December 17.
Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said the continuation of the war in neighboring Afghanistan was not in the Taliban’s “interest anymore,” after holding talks with a Taliban delegation in Islamabad.
Afghan officials say at least 13 police officers have been killed in an attack on a security checkpoint in the northern province of Baghlan.
Adela Raz, Afghanistan’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations, is one of the highest-ranking women in the Afghan government.
Bibi is 55 years old and has only one name. She and her family fled her home in eastern Afghanistan's Nangarhar Province as fighting raged between government forces and Islamic State militants. She works in a brick factory and supports her wounded son, her daughter-in-law, and nine grandchildren.
A bomb blast and a shooting attack in Kabul on December 15 killed at least three people, including a deputy provincial governor, officials said.
The Afghan government has failed to set up a functioning judiciary across the country's many districts, and the Taliban has stepped in by establishing shadow courts that provide locals their only means of settling disputes or seeking justice.
Taliban militants have killed at least 10 members of the Afghan security forces in the northern province of Kunduz, officials said on December 14, as the government announced that peace talks will resume next month.
Kabul police say that at least three people have been killed in separate bomb and gun attacks in Afghanistan's capital.
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