Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has postponed a planned visit to Washington during which he was to discuss the U.S.-Taliban talks aimed at ending the nearly 18-year war in Afghanistan, officials say.
President Ashraf Ghani says he has "regretfully" accepted the resignation of the head of Afghanistan's main intelligence agency after four members of a family were killed in an operation in the country’s east.
Recent bomb attacks in a northwestern Pakistani district have raised fears about the possible return of the Taliban.
At least 12 people have been killed -- including a U.S. and a Romanian soldier -- and dozens more injured when a car bomb struck a checkpoint on September 5 in a neighborhood of Kabul that houses the embassies, government buildings, and local NATO headquarters.
As most senior Pakistani opposition politicians languish in prison amid a government crackdown, a seasoned Islamist leader has emerged as the most serious threat to the country’s government.
Afghan officials say they support progress toward peace but are concerned about a draft agreement reached "in principle" between U.S. and Taliban negotiators on ending their 18-year conflict.
Nine former U.S. ambassadors have warned that Afghanistan could collapse in a "total civil war" if the United States withdraws its forces before a "real" peace deal involving the Kabul government is reached with the Taliban.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says the western security alliance "fully supports" U.S. efforts to clinch a peace deal in Afghanistan.
The Taliban took credit for killing at least 16 civilians involving a car bombing and gunmen in Kabul on September 2 as the Afghan-based militant group agreed “in principle” to a deal to end the 18-year conflict, the longest war in which the United States has been embroiled.
The Taliban has agreed "in principle" that any Afghan territory it controls in the future will not be used as a safe haven for terrorists to launch attacks against the United States and its allies, U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad has told RFE/RL.
As the United States and the Taliban inch toward an agreement, the pivotal question of whether the hard-line Islamist movement will be able to peacefully coexist or merge into the more secular Western-backed Afghan republic looms large.
At least six people have been killed after the Taliban launched an attack on the northeastern Afghan city of Puli Khumri, as the U.S. special envoy has said negotiators are on the threshold of an agreement to end the country’s nearly 18-year conflict.
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