In the 18-year-long Afghan war, the United States and the Taliban along with the Afghan government will finally hold their fire for seven days as a test. The test period — step one of a ceasefire — from 22 to...
Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Tuesday finally declared the incumbent President Ashraf Ghani as winner of the presidential election held in September last year. But Ghani’s opponent, Abdullah Abdullah, rejected the results, claiming to have won the election himself...
A large number of Pakistanis believe that Imran Khan became Prime Minister, with the blessing of the army
For a full forty years, Afghanistan has known war. First came the Soviets, whose decade-long occupation brought devastation, death and little in the way of achievement. A cataclysmic civil war followed, pitting newly mustered Taliban fighters against government troops. And...
On Feb. 11, Afghans woke up to a suicide bombing after 89 days of calm in Kabul, the Afghan capital. The bombing restarted war in Kabul just as the United States was reporting progress in talks and potentially signing a...
In September 2019, a car bombing that killed 12 people in Kabul, the Afghan capital, led U.S. Presence Trump to call off talks with the Taliban. Another car packed with explosives drove to a private security guard’s convoy in Kabul...
With an election around the corner, US President Donald Trump is keen to conclude a US-Taliban pact so that he can boast during his campaign later in the year that he ended the Afghan war. The biggest obstacle Trump faces...
An American military communication aircraft crashed in Taliban-controlled territory on Monday afternoon, the United States forces in Afghanistan confirmed after hours of confusion over whether a civilian aircraft crashed. The aircraft, described as E-11A, went down in the Deh Yak...
A peace deal between the United States and Taliban is becoming increasingly likely with a conclusion expected to be reached and signed upon by the end of the month. Will the peace deal take place? What does the deal involve?...
The Taliban recently declared that it will implement a ten-day ceasefire with US soldiers, a reduction in violence with Afghan forces and discussions with Afghan government officials if it concludes a deal with US negotiators in Doha, according to Reuters. ...
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