Afghan Voice Agency (AVA) - Daily View: The recent attack on a Sikh temple in Kabul has once again raised Indian concerns about Afghanistan's security and raised doubts about the Taliban's ability to ensure security; this was evident in the reaction of the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to this event.
In an article entitled "NATO's Broken Shield", the Guardian described the differences in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as a neglected alliance.
24 years ago on September 27 (or 6th Meezan 1375 in the solar year) the Taliban entered the capital city of Kabul, just two years after the group was formally founded.
The preliminary preparations for the intra-Afghan talks are taking shape in Qatar, aiming to set the stage for the official negotiations that were called for in the US-Taliban agreement signed at the beginning of the year.
International donors on Thursday expressed deep concern about the slowdown in Afghanistan's ant-corruption efforts, as recently reported by the United Nations.
As attempts continue to be made to put into operation various elements of the US-Taliban deal, the varied linkages of the Taliban with Pakistan-based extremist groups and transnational extremist organisations such as Al-Qaeda remain the main concern of the international community.
Two months after the US-Taliban deal in Qatar, there is nothing as clear as the Trump administration’s firm commitment to provisions of the deal that allow US forces to withdraw from Afghanistan no matter what progress is made in persuading the Taliban to reduce violence or talk to their compatriots.
The negotiations are a key component of the U.S.-Taliban deal signed in February that called for the complete withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan in exchange for counterterrorism guarantees from the Taliban, which has agreed to open talks with the central government.
A video which purportedly shows the birth of a two-headed calf in Afghanistan has gone viral on social media but the majority of people say they are not astounded with the miracle as the country is already being ran by parallel governments which came into being after the end of a two-headed government or the National Unity Government.
A member of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council has censured the US assassination of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), and the second-in-command of Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, saying President Donald Trump was not aware of the fact ...
A few hours after the plane took off in total darkness with windows drawn and lights off, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham came to the back of the plane to brief us. “We’re going to Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan.” This would be President Trump’s second trip to a conflict zone, his first to Afghanistan. The highly clandestine nature of ...
The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) suffered approximately 5% more casualties between 1 June and 31 August 2019 than during the same period the previous year, John Sopko, the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), said in his latest quarterly report released on 31 October.
After a 4-month investigation, the UN has come up with a report on a May 5 US airstrike against a drug lab in western Afghanistan. The report finds that the attack violate international humanitarian law with 39 casualties including 14 children.
The U.S. and Taliban are set to resume seventh round of talks in Doha on Tuesday, as a landmark intra-Afghan dialogue in the Qatari capital failed to produce a much-awaited cease-fire in Afghanistan.
The new speaker of the Afghan parliament, who was elected to the post after a month-long rift between lawmakers, vowed to expedite legislation and remove “deadlocks” in this regard.
As the U.S. Special Envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad travels to Pakistan to discuss the Afghan peace process, Kabul-based politicians and experts believe that it is impossible to bring peace in Afghanistan without a regional consensus.
The Afghan government has urged the U.S. Special Envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad to take guarantor from Pakistan to stop supporting alternative terrorist groups in Afghanistan after a peace deal between the Afghan government and the Taliban, sources in the Afghan Presidential Palace told Ariana News.
A senior government official in the east of Afghanistan says Afghanistan will “never” achieve sustainable peace if the current efforts at national and international levels are failed.
The conspicuous absence of internationally recognised Ghani regime raises questions about who is deciding Afghanistan's future. Afghan President is convinced the US-led endeavour is made in hurry