Some 100 Taliban prisoners were released from a military prison in Afghanistan Monday as part of the government's response to a ceasefire offered by the militants to ma
A senior U.S. envoy left for Doha and Kabul on Sunday to press Taliban and the Afghan government officials to open peace talks that the United States hopes will allow it to withdraw from Afghanistan,
Two brutal attacks this week have laid bare major weaknesses of the U.S.-Taliban troop withdrawal pact: Nothing in it obliges the Taliban to prevent such massacres and the Afghan government's abil
U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad. /AFP A U.S. negotiator has urged the Taliban in new talks to curb violence and preserve a two-month-old accord aime
A firefighter sprays disinfectant in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan, April 11, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note: Hamzah Rifaat Hussain is a former visiting fellow at the Stimson Center in Washingto
The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, has arrived in Kabul on an urgent visit to try to move forward a US peace deal signed with the Taliban last month, a trip that c
The Taliban rejected the Afghan government's attempt to resolve a spiraling crisis over the release of insurgent prisoners Wednesday, as Kabul warned it was ready to resume offensive battlefield oper
Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani (C) takes an oath during the inauguration in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 9, 2020. /Reuters The Afghan government will gradually release 5,000 Taliban prison
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani will go ahead with his inauguration on Monday, a top aide said, despite an offer by his main political rival challenging him for the job t
Abdullah Abdullah, the bitter rival of Afghanistan's president-elect Ashraf Ghani, has issued invitations to a parallel swearing-in ceremony due next week, his spokesman said on Saturday."We've se
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday the increasing violence in some parts of Afghanistan was unacceptable, urging warring parties to "stop posturing" bef
The U.S. forces in Afghanistan conducted a defensive airstrike in support of Afghan security forces in southern Helmand province on Wednesday, the first raid after a U
U.S. President Donald Trump spoke by telephone with chief Taliban negotiator Mullah Baradar Akhund on Tuesday, the first known conversation between a U.S. leader and a top Taliban official, as a d
President Donald Trump confirmed Tuesday that he spoke on the phone to a Taliban leader, making him the first U.S. president believed to ever speak directly with the mi
The United States signed on Saturday a historic peace agreement with Afghanistan's Taliban in Qatar's capital Doha that includes Taliban reduction of violence and with
U.S. soldiers stand near a U.S. bombing area in Achin district of Nangarhar province, east of Afghanistan, April 15, 2017. (Xinhua\Rahman Safi) Pakistan welcomes the peace deal signed between Afgha
America’s longest war may finally be nearing an end.The United States and the Islamists it toppled from power in Afghanistan are poised to sign a peace deal Saturday af
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