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KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — Afghanistan expects a date for direct talks with the Taliban to be set by the end of February, the foreign minister told an international group seeking to relaunch the peace process at a meeting in Kabul Tuesday. Delegates from Afghanistan, China, the US and Pakistan met in the capital for a fourth round of talks aimed at forming a path back to the nascent peace process, which was interrupted by last summer’s announcement […]
Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the United States will discuss roadmap details and participants’ responsibilities for the Afghan peace process when they meet in Kabul on Monday for a second round of four-nation talks, according to an Afghan official and a political analyst. Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister Hekmat Khalil Karzai, who is leading the Afghan delegation at the talks, said the second round meeting will emphasize the details of a peace roadmap shared at the first […]
Afghan security forces exchanged fire with gunmen barricaded in a house near the Pakistan consulate in the eastern city of Jalalabad on Wednesday (January 13) after a suicide bomber blew himself up, officials said. At least six people were killed and 11 wounded in the suicide attack and subsequent fighting, they said. The attack on the consulate, which comes amid efforts to restart the stalled peace process with the Taliban and ease diplomatic tensions between […]
MANILA , July 30 — The Philippines will provide technical assistance to Afghanistan in its own peace talks with its local Islamic rebel group Taliban by sharing lessons of its own peace process, primarily in its successful peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). A delegation from Afghanistan is currently on a three-day visit to the Philippines to learn from the country’s peace process, especially in terms of promoting women empowerment in peace […]
More than 180 people have been killed in north Afghanistan in some of the worst avalanches there for 30 years, officials said on Thursday, with heavy snow set to last for two more days after an unusually dry winter led to fears of drought. Officials warned of an imminent humanitarian emergency in areas most severely hit by the bad weather, with snow sweeping through villages and blocking off roads. “We haven’t seen this much snow, […]
(Reuters) – A U.S. military investigation of Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl’s capture by the Taliban found he had slipped away from his unit before but had always returned, raising questions about whether or not he was deserting when he disappeared in 2009, people familiar with the findings said on Thursday. Bergdahl, 28, was freed after five years as an Afghanistan war prisoner on Saturday when the Obama administration agreed to release five Taliban leaders from Guantanamo prison […]
(Reuters) – The Afghan president is angry at being kept in the dark over a deal to free five Taliban leaders in exchange for a captured U.S. soldier, and accuses Washington of failing to back a peace plan for the war-torn country, a senior source said on Monday. The five prisoners were flown to Qatar on Sunday as part of a secret agreement to release Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who left Afghanistan for Germany on the same day. The […]
(Reuters) — The U.S. soldier freed from nearly five years in captivity in Afghanistan, Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, needs patience and time to heal from his harrowing ordeal, his parents told a news conference in Boise, Idaho on Sunday (June 1). Bergdahl was released on Saturday (May 31) in an exchange deal in which five Talibanprisoners were freed from Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba and flown to Qatar. Bergdahl’s parents, Bob and Jani Bergdahl, said they have not yet spoken to their son and couldn’t wait to […]
(Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday outlined a plan to withdraw all but 9,800 American troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year and pull out the rest by the end of 2016, ending more than a decade of military engagement triggered by the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. The decision means that Obama will leave office in early 2017 having extricated the country from the longest war in U.S. history. He ended Washington’s […]
The Philippine embassy in Washington D.C. confirmed that a Filipino -American doctor was among three people killed in an attack in a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Two female journalists working for the Associated Press news agency have been shot by a police officer in eastern Afghanistan.
(Reuters) – Voting was largely peaceful in Afghanistan’s presidential election on Saturday, with only isolated attacks on polling stations as a country racked by decades of chaos embarked on its first ever democratic transfer of power. A roadside bomb killed two policemen and wounded two others in the southern city of Qalat as they were returning from a polling station, while four voters were wounded in an explosion at a voting centre in the southeastern […]
