Thursday, 29 October 2020_A report of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan has sounded the alarm about a sharp rise in civilian casualties.
Tuesday, 24 November 2020_Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf says intra-Afghan talks leading by the country’s legal government without pressure from third countries can help establish peace and stability in the war-ravaged state.
Monday, 16 November 2020 _Acting US Defense Secretary Chris Miller has issued his first public guidance to all Pentagon staff less a week after his appointment, declaring: “It's time to come home” from Afghanistan.
Monday, 26 October 2020_The United States has carried out a fresh airstrike against a Taliban militants' outpost in central Afghanistan despite the ongoing talks with the group's representatives in Doha, Qatar, aimed at restoring peace and security to the country.
Friday, 16 October 2020_Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman said Abdullah Abdullah, the Chairman of Afghanistan’s High Council for National Reconciliation (HCNR), will visit the Iranian capital of Tehran on October 18.
Wednesday, 14 October 2020_At least nine people lost their lives after two Afghan military helicopters collided in midair in Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand.
Friday, 09 October 2020_NATO has dismissed US President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement to pull out all of US forces from Afghanistan by the end of the year, saying that members of the military alliance will decide together on when to withdraw forces from the war-ravaged country.
Saturday, 03 October 2020_At least 15 people were killed and more than 30 others wounded in a car bomb attack that targeted a government building in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said.
Afghan police have confiscated a massive amount of sodium nitrate in the capital, Kabul, a chemical compound used in the making of car bombs and improvised explosive devices.
Friday, 11 September 2020_Almost every Afghan knows how the 9/11 terrorist attacks brought their country into the center of global politics. Immediately after the attacks, the US under Republican George W. Bush’s presidency and its allies invaded Afghanistan on October 7, 2001 as part of Washington’s so-called war on terror. The offensive removed the Taliban regime from power, but after more than one and a half decades, the foreign troops are still deployed in the country.
Saturday, 01 August 2020 _Afghanistan accused Pakistan on Friday of killing 15 civilians during clashes at a border crossing where crowds were jostling to cross for the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha.
Friday, 31 July 2020_A new report into a deadly incursion by New Zealand’s forces in Afghanistan says the military misled senior leaders, government ministers and the public over the civilian casualties ten years ago.
Friday, 31 July 2020_At least 18 people, including Afghan security personnel, are killed in a suspected car bombing in eastern Afghanistan, shortly before an expected ceasefire between the government and the Taliban militant group.
Monday, 27 July 2020 _Saudi Arabia is to build as many as 600 madrassas in Afghanistan following its experience in neighboring Pakistan where such schools have become synonymous with creating terrorists through extremist Takfiri teachings.
In an interview with Afghan News channel “Tolo News”, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran for political affairs, Abbas Araghchi said: "The Taliban do not have an office in Iran.”
Tuesday, 14 July 2020_The United States says its deal with Taliban has entered the “next phase,” even as the militant group ramps up violence in Afghanistan.
Saturday, 11 July 2020_Another US army soldier has committed suicide after serving 6 full tours in Afghanistan and six more combat tours overseas, continuing a trend of high suicide rates that have plagued the US armed force for at least eleven years.
Friday, 10 July 2020_Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has dismissed “unscrupulous speculation” about alleged Russian ties with the Taliban militants in Afghanistan.