Afghan government officials, Taliban extremists, and U.S. officials are in the Qatari capital, Doha, for the negotiations that opened on September 12 designed to bring permanent cease-fire, ensure the rights of women and minorities, etc. (Reuters)
Nineteen years after the September 11 terror attacks in the United States led to a bloody conflict that ravaged Afghanistan and killed tens of thousands of people, talks designed to bring peace to the country are set to begin.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said upcoming Afghan peace talks are likely to be “contentious,” but that they are the only way forward if Afghans are to find peace after decades of conflict.
The United Nations says an estimated 6,000 residents of Chinarto, a remote district in the southern Afghan province of Uruzgan, cannot access medical services and face food shortages because of the road closure by the Taliban.
U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden says if he is elected he will maintain a small troop presence in Afghanistan and Iraq to help battle terrorism in the war-ravaged countries.
A group of Democratic senators has introduced legislation to impose sanctions on any Russian individual or entity involved in a reported program to place bounties on U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.
Long-delayed peace talks between Taliban and Afghan government negotiators are set to kick off in Qatar on September 12, officials and the militant group say.
Afghanistan's main intelligence agency says it has arrested a key member of the Islamic State (IS) extremist group’s affiliate in the country who is said to be a mastermind behind the assassination of two prominent religious scholars in Kabul.
A Pakistani soldier was killed and three civilians were injured in clashes with Indian border troops in the disputed region of Kashmir, the military said on September 10.
Afghanistan's First Vice President Amrullah Saleh has escaped an apparent assassination attempt suffering only minor injuries from a roadside bomb blast in the country's capital, Kabul. The 49-year-old was in a convoy when it was hit by the September 9 blast that killed at least 10 people.
Afghan First Vice President Amrullah Saleh has escaped with only slight injuries after an apparent assassination attempt in the capital early on September 9 that killed at least six people.
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