At least 78 pro-government forces and 23 civilians were killed in Afghanistan during the past week.

A Saudi little boy, while on a pilgrimage to the holy city of Medina with his Shia mother, has been barbarously killed for unknown reasons, fueling speculations that he could have been a sectarian and hate crime victim, media reports say.

More than a quarter of the opium poppies grown in Afghanistan last year came from districts controlled or influenced by the Afghan government, the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), a watchdog agency, reported Thursday.

As the efforts on finding a solution to the Afghan conflict get momentum at national and international levels, a former senior member of Taliban said there has been “flexibilities” on both sides of the Doha talks, the United States and the Taliban, but according to him the two sides have “different perspectives” on details of the negotiations.

At least 139 pro-government forces and 15 civilians were killed in Afghanistan during the past week.

Afghanistan’s 35-year-old National Security Advisor Hamdullah Mohib has recently had talks with his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval and top officials of the NSC where various issues were believed to have been discussed. Chief among them was the security situation in Afghanistan with President Donald Trump planning a troop withdrawal of US ...

The Asia Foundation’s annual survey of the Afghan people shows that more than 60 percent of Afghans remain pessimistic about their country’s future.

Helmand civil society activists said civilian casualties must stop; otherwise, they said people will protest against it.

More than 220 candidates in 13 provinces of the country have received four to 999 votes --- falling below the condition of submitting names of at least 1,000 persons to the Independent Election Commission (IEC) as guaranteed voters while registering as candidate.

People in Kandahar, one of Afghanistan's southern provinces, are making great efforts to seek development though the province is still under threats from insurgents.

The founder of the notorious, and now defunct, Blackwater, has been making headlines for trying to privatise the Afghan war. What has gone unreported are his plans as "Trump's advisor" to extract the country's immensely rich mineral wealth.

A number of political parties on Wednesday welcomed delays in the upcoming presidential election and the idea about the establishment of an interim government.

A number of analysts based in Kabul say the release of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, former deputy leader of the Taliban will not have an impact in the process of ensuring peace talks between the Afghan government and the armed group.

The brewing relations between China and Afghanistan could create ripples in the ties between Beijing and Islamabad.

Seventeen years into the war in Afghanistan, American officials routinely issue inflated assessments of progress that contradict what is actually happening there.

The US has spent billions and billions of dollars in Afghanistan, and has little to show for it.

Government has responded by saying it is working to protect all its citizens, especially those at risk. 

 The watchdog responsible for monitoring the U.S. government’s effort to rebuild Afghanistan says the 15-year, $5 billion effort hasn’t worked, according to a report released.

The government on Sunday rejected a plan proposed by the Independent Election Commission (IEC) to reduce the number of election consistencies, saying the legal period to implement such a plan has expired.

It is time for America to end a militarized process that had its inception with the reaction to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan decades ago.