The next round of negotiations between the Taliban and the Afghan government will be held in Qatar from next month, a top official said on December 27, despite President Ashraf Ghani's recent calls for them to be moved home.
It’s the world’s deadliest ongoing conflict. But what’s ahead for Afghanistan in 2021, when the United States is due to withdraw all its troops from the country and the Taliban is supposed to help rule the country?
The chairman of Afghanistan's High Council for National Reconciliation, Abdullah Abdullah, has held talks with Tajik President Emomali Rahmon and other top officials in the Tajik capital as he looks to drum up regional support for peace talks with the Taliban.
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.
In villages and towns across Afghanistan, grieving families mourning the loss of fathers, sons, brothers, and husbands in the country's fratricidal war are united in demanding peace for their country.
Adela Raz, Afghanistan’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations, is one of the highest-ranking women in the Afghan government.
Afghan government and Taliban representatives said on December 2 they had reached a preliminary deal to press on with peace talks, their first written agreement in 19 years of war and welcomed by the United States as a chance to halt the violence.
As the Afghan government and the Taliban inch forward in a fledgling peace process, the country’s lack of financial independence is being touted as the main incentive for them to form a single political system that will still need to work hard to attract foreign aid.
As Afghan government and Taliban negotiators try to broker a peace deal in Doha, RFE/RL's Gandhara is asking Afghans: "What's at stake for you in the Afghan peace talks?" For entrepreneur and activist Nilofar Ayoubi, it's the freedom to work and build a career as a businesswoman.
Kabul dentist Ghazal Sharifi Mayel says Afghan peace talks need to protect career choices for women.
Three successful Afghan women -- a model, a musician, and a poet -- say they won't accept restrictions on their rights as part of any peace agreement negotiated with the Taliban.
Just weeks after the first direct talks between Afghan government representatives and the Taliban militant group opened to much hype, the historic negotiations aimed at ending the bloody 19-year war are in danger of collapse.
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