A first group of 11 members of the Afghan Sikh community left for India on Sunday, along with Nidan Singh Sachdeva, the 55-year-old Sikh man who had been released from captivity in Paktia's Chamakani district on July 18...
First Vice President Amrullah Saleh wrote on Twitter today: “Neither we nor the watchful world have evidence of Taliban - Al Qaeda divorce and separation. No single message from leaders in...
Monday this week seemed like a repeat of many other days in recent months where bloody battles were fought across Afghanistan, of which the most damaging was the Taliban suicide attack in Samangan during the day...
For over four years now, occasionally a campaign on Afghan social media would pop-up to recognize women's identities as they ask, “Where is my name?" The nascent movement takes form but fades after a while...
It's been a little over nine months since Afghanistan's presidential election were held in September 2019...
President Ashraf Ghani met with Mir Rahman Rahmani, the speaker of the Lower House of Parliament on Monday to discuss the ministerial candidates picked by Ghani...
Two were killed and two more injured in an explosion at the Wazir Akbar Khan Mosque on Tuesday evening. An hour later, Ministry of Interior spokesman Tariq Arian announced that Mullah Mohammad Ayaz Niazi, the mosque’s imam, had been killed...
On May 23, the Taliban declared a three-day ceasefire for the Eid Al-Fitr celebrations. In their statement, Taliban instructed its fighters to take special measures...
On May 17, media reported that the Taliban shot dead five people - three civilians and two national police personnel – and then torched the bodies. The brutal incident took place in Qiyaq village of Jaghato...
Recently, a video showing the interview of "Mawlawi Mahdi Mujahed", shadow district chief of Taliban for Balkhab district of Saripul province with "Al-Emara" studio, went viral on social media and followed by many reactions. In this interview, Mahdi Mujahed...
Since the signing of the US-Taliban peace agreement, 2,804 attacks have been carried out on Afghan security forces by the Taliban group, killing and injuring 789 civilians...
Salam Rahimi, the Minister of State for Peace Affairs and a close associate of President Ashraf Ghani, said on Friday night that the intra-Afghan talks will start and Dr. Abdullah Abdullah will take the responsibility of the Reconciliation Council...
After days of silence, Zalmai Khalilzad, the US special envoy for Afghanistan’s reconciliation has finally welcomed the exchange of prisoners between the Afghan government and the Taliban on his Twitter page on Monday...
Rahmatullah Nabil, the former head of Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS), wrote on his...
Two weeks have passed since US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s unexpected visit to Kabul. Pompeo’s visit had a clear consequence that if there was no political agreement on power sharing...
After Hamed Karzai, Abdul Rab Rasul Sayyaf, Mohammad Karim Khalili and Mohammad Yunus Qanuni issued a joint statement calling on both sides of the political crisis (Mr. Ghani and Mr. Abdullah) to give more time; Abdullah Abdullah wrote on his Facebook page that “The country’s elders, who are trying to get out of the political crisis, are welcome, and we are ready to work with them to resolve the current political crisis by extending the deadline for negotiations...
27 days after the second term of his presidency, President Ashraf Ghani has started to form his new cabinet and announced the introduction of figures to his new cabinet...
The official cases from the coronavirus in Herat province in western Afghanistan has risen to 214 and four deaths. But some citizens of Herat say that the statistics that are published every day are not real. In fact, the number of sufferers is higher than the number published by the government agencies...
The Taliban has said the group was ready to declare a cease-fire in areas of Afghanistan under its control if they are hit by a coronavirus outbreak...
Mullah Fazil, a Taliban member of their political office in Qatar, has recently traveled to Quetta city in Pakistan, where he has spoken in the presence of Taliban commanders when he commented on al-Qaeda that, "They rejoice and thank God for a Taliban member being killed and say a disbeliever is killed. But they are not happy about killing an infidel or Hazara Shiite...
“If the quarantine continues, those who are destitute and unable to buy food may die of starvation. Who gives the free food. No one,” Mohammad Ali laughs when he speaks the word “die” after “starvation”...
Former president Hamed Karzai, Abdul Rab Rasul Sayyaf, Younes Qanoni and Mohammad Karim Khalili had a meeting with Abdullah Abdullah on Sunday...
The list has finalized after days of turmoil and crisis. Reactions to this list have varied among social network users. As some well-known figures have reacted that this first of all, the negotiating delegation must align with political leaders and confidently negotiate with the Taliban and defend the human rights and freedoms...
The Sikh temple (Dharamshala) in Kabul's Shorbazar area in the Police District 1 of Kabul city, at a distance of just one kilometer from the presidential palace, came under complex suicide attack on early Wednesday, killing 11 people and wounding more than a dozen...