Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has received top US and NATO representatives in Kabul and was briefed about the ongoing peace negotiations with the Taliban, presidential spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said on Sunday.

Political leaders and heads of political bodies, including Abdullah Abdullah and Hamid Karzai, had a consultative meeting Saturday in Kabul in order to create a new policy for the peace negotiations. CE Abdullah warned that no one can cease the peace talks for personal benefits. They considered ‘violence reduction’ as a feasible option to proceed with ...

Nearly half of all Afghans want U.S. and NATO troops to leave Afghanistan once a peace deal to end the country’s 18-year war is signed with the Taliban, according to a survey released Thursday.

A delegation of Afghanistan’s Taliban has travelled to China for talks on the militant group’s peace negotiations with the United States, which hit a dead end earlier this month.

Afghan Special Forces reportedly killed or wounded 31 Taliban jihadists affiliated with al-Qaeda in eastern Afghanistan this week, including Chinese and Chechen militants.

 A former Taliban official says that negotiations between the insurgents and US envoy would likely go to sixth round, a statement amid the ongoing fifth round of talks in Qatar.

US forces could leave Afghanistan within five years under a Pentagon plan being offered as part of a potential deal with the Taliban to end the nearly 18-year war, the New York Times has reported.

The next round of peace negotiations between the Taliban and the US are expected to be hosted by Qatar instead of Saudi Arabia as decided in the UAE meeting.

President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani met with the delegation of governmental peace negotiators in ARG Presidential Palace on Sunday.

Officials from Jamiat-e-Islami party of Afghanistan on Sunday said they have prepared a plan for promoting peace negotiation talks with the Taliban.

The U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday the United States was “in very strong” peace negotiations in Afghanistan, but he did not know whether they would be successful.

First vice-president, Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, on Thursday said the ongoing war in Afghanistan was not in no one’s interest and called for a responsible end to the conflict.