Nine people in connection to criminal offenses were arrested by security forces in Kabul.

The Afghan security forces have killed at least 12 Taliban fighters in western Badghis province, an official said on Monday. In addition to that, 18 more Taliban fighters were wounded.

Afghans have welcomed the exchange of prisoners between the government and the Taliban outfit as a step towards initiating intra-Afghan talks to find negotiated solution to the country's prolonged war.

Afghan security forces claimed to have arrested Daesh-linked group head Aslam Farooqi earlier this month

A day after releasing 100 Taliban prisoners, the Afghan government on Thursday said it would free another 100 – even though the insurgents have walked out of talks over a wider prisoner swap and described the piecemeal release of captives as “unacceptable,” according to reports.

The Taliban continue their attacks on Afghan security forces across the country, the Afghan Ministry of Defense said.

Top commander of Taliban group along with his seven men were killed during clashes with Afghan security forces in northern Jawzjan province.

 Taliban insurgents have killed 27 members of the Afghan security forces, police and government officials said on Monday, as a peace effort brokered by the United States struggles to get off the ground.

 India's Ministry of External Affairs on Wednesday strongly condemned the suicide attack on a shrine belonging to the Sikh community in Afghanistan's Kabul, which took a few human lives and injured many others.

The Afghan Security Forces have killed at least 14 militants in separate clashes erupted between them in southern Helmand and Zabul provinces.

Afghan security forces shot dead a would-be suicide attacker before he could reach his target in Kandahar province.

Afghanistan’s defense minister says the government forces would switch from ‘defense mode’ to offensive if the Taliban militant group does not stop attacks by the end of the week.

Six Afghan police and eight insurgents were killed in fierce clashes following a Taliban's attack on a security checkpoint in the country's southern Uruzgan province overnight, local police said Wednesday.

Twenty-nine passengers have been rescued from militants in Afghanistan's eastern Ghazni province, the provincial government said Saturday.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has called on all Afghan political actors to refrain from taking steps that would escalate tensions and undermine political stability.

A week-long, partial truce came into effect across Afghanistan on Saturday, with jubilant civilians celebrating in the streets to mark a potentially historic turning point in the war, even as isolated attacks threatened to undermine the process. 

A United Nations report says Afghanistan passed a grim milestone with more than 100,000 civilians killed or hurt in the last 10 years since the international body began documenting casualties in a war that has raged for 18 years.

The lengthy U.S.-Taliban talks to end the war in Afghanistan and pave the way for the withdrawal of the U.S.-led forces from the country have been reportedly finalized and both sides would possibly ink a peace deal within days.

The Afghan Security Forces killed at least five Taliban insurgents during an operation in southern Kandahar province, the security officials said.

Hizb-i-Islami leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar on Tuesday unveiled his plan for peace with the Taliban.