A suicide attack targeting an Afghan provincial governor killed at least eight people on October 5, officials said, as the president traveled to Qatar where peace talks with the Taliban have stalled.
Holding the negotiators accountable to the 95 percent of Afghan citizens who are victims and not perpetrators of violence is the optimal route to addressing grievances and minimizing the marginalization that contributes to new dynamics and cycles of violence.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has arrived in Qatar for a bilateral meeting with the leaders of the Gulf state but will not hold talks with Taliban representatives even as peace talks are under way in the country's capital city, Doha, according to officials.
What kind of power-sharing formula could emerge from an Afghan peace settlement? Experts say the answer is likely a local Sunni version of the Islamic Republic of Iran -- a republican system with a thick theocratic layer.
An Afghan official says at least nine people were killed when a suicide car bomber attacked a military checkpoint in the southern province of Helmand.
The Afghan government and Taliban negotiators are nearing a compromise on a key sticking point that has stalled peace talks in Doha, a senior Afghan official said on September 30.
Afghanistan's top peace official, Abdullah Abdullah, said on September 30 that he does not expect the result of the upcoming U.S. presidential election to dramatically change the Afghan peace process or troop withdrawal plans.
A giant, concrete barrier in the Afghan capital, Kabul, has been transformed into a mural where residents of the capital can write about their hopes and demands for the country's peace process.
A leading rights watchdog in Afghanistan has documented a dramatic drop in girls’ education in two provinces where the Taliban controls large swathes of rural territories and is battling government forces for more.
Afghanistan’s top peace negotiator says Afghanistan and Pakistan are on the threshold of a new relationship characterized by “mutual respect, sincere cooperation, and shared prosperity.”
Afghan officials say at least 18 Taliban fighters and 14 civilians were killed in an air strike and a roadside bomb in two Afghan provinces.
Afghan police seized four tonnes of sodium nitrate, used in the making of car bombs and improvised explosive devices, officials said, in one of the largest such seizures in the country's 19-year insurgency.
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