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Taliban spokesman tells Reuters Turkey should withdraw troops as part of deal with the US for pullout of foreign forces. Turkey should withdraw its troops from Afghanistan under the 2020 deal for the pullout of foreign forces, a Taliban spokesman has said, effectively rejecting Ankara’s proposal to guard and run …

The government blamed the Taliban for the attack on the British-American charity, the HALO Trust. The militant group denied any responsibility. At least 10 people were killed and 16 others injured in an armed attack on staff members of a British-American charity in Afghanistan that has been clearing land mines …

The US pullout from Afghanistan is more than 50 percent complete, the Pentagon said Tuesday, as it approaches its September 11 deadline to remove troops. Since President Joe Biden ordered the departure from Afghanistan in April, the Department of Defense has withdrawn the equivalent of approximately 500 C-17 loads of …

Turkey has offered to guard and run Kabul’s airport after the United States and other NATO forces withdraw from Afghanistan, but U.S. officials say Ankara is imposing conditions that need to be resolved as their leaders prepare to meet next week. Turkish officials say Ankara made the proposal at a …

Landmine explosion occurs hours before Taliban leaders and UN officials met in Qatar to discuss the Afghan peace process. At least 11 civilians have been killed in northern Afghanistan when their vehicle set off a land mine, local government officials said on Sunday, accusing the Taliban of planting the roadside …

Taliban insurgents show no sign of reducing the level of violence in Afghanistan to facilitate peace negotiations with the government, and appear to be trying to strengthen their military position as leverage, with the “unprecedented violence” of 2020 carrying into 2021, UN experts said in a new report circulated Friday. …

Three bomb explosions have rocked the Afghan capital city of Kabul, claiming the lives of at least 10 people and plunging the city into darkness, according to Afghan government officials. Hamid Roshan, a spokesman for Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry, said two bombs exploded in separate locations in a west Kabul neighborhood …

The head of NATO says the military organization’s pullout from Afghanistan is going well after an 18-year presence in the country NATO’s Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the military organization’s pullout from Afghanistan is going well, as at least six people were killed Tuesday in a series of attacks that plunged …

A car bombing targeted a district police headquarters in the northern province of Baghlan, inflicting casualties on the security forces and civilians, officials said Monday. Provincial Police Spokesman Javed Basharat said that the attack took place on Monday evening in Baghlan-e-Markazi-e-Jadid district. He said security forces have identified and shot …

More than 1,400 Afghans have moved to Britain under a resettlement scheme, with another 3,000 expected to move under new rules. Britain will make it easier for Afghans who worked with British troops to settle in the United Kingdom, amid rising fears for their safety as foreign forces leave Afghanistan, …

A mortar bomb fired by the Taliban struck a wedding ceremony in a province north of the Afghan capital, killing at least six people including women and children, officials said on Sunday. The incident happened late Saturday in Kapisa province when a shell aimed at an army checkpoint hit a …

A roadside bomb hit a bus carrying university staff in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing three teachers and wounding 15 others, police said on Saturday. The incident took place in Charikar, the provincial capital of Parwan. The bus was carrying teachers from Al-Biruni university, said a spokesman for the provincial …

The Afghan Taliban on Wednesday warned nearby nations against allowing the United States to use their territory for operations in the country after they withdraw from Afghanistan. As foreign forces withdraw troops by President Joe Biden’s announced deadline of Sept. 11, experts and diplomats have speculated that Washington’s future role …

Taliban, on Tuesday, pledged to provide a “safe environment” to foreign diplomats, after Australia announced it would shutter its embassy over security concerns. “The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan assures all foreign diplomats and staff of humanitarian organizations that (we) will not pose any threats to them,” Taliban spokesman Mohammad Naeem …

Roadside bombings in southern and central Afghanistan killed 13 people, including nine members of one family, officials said Thursday. Meanwhile, militants stopped a bus in western Afghanistan, ordered three men to get out, and shot and killed them. No one has claimed responsibility for the latest attacks. The three men …

In the heart of territory under siege from the Taliban, one of Afghanistan’s most important hydroelectric dams is at the centre of a power struggle that symbolises the battle between the government and insurgents. Kajaki Dam, which provides power to more than three million people in the south — including …

US lawmakers pleaded Tuesday for the evacuation of thousands of Afghan allies, fearing a bloodbath as America ends its longest war, but the administration said it did not want to set off a panic. “We cannot allow Kabul to be another Saigon,” Representative Mike McCaul, the top Republican on the …

Clashes between Taliban fighters and government forces resume in the Helmand province. Afghanistan’s government’s three-day ceasefire with the Taliban marked by violent attacks – some claimed by the ISIL (ISIS) armed group – ended on Sunday amid calls for renewed peace talks. Fighting resumed on Sunday on the outskirts of …

No immediate claim of responsibility for the explosion that happened on the second day of a temporary ceasefire agreed upon between gov’t and the Taliban. At least 12 people have been killed and more wounded in an explosion at a Shia mosque on the outskirts of Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, according …

Kandahar, Kunduz, and Ghazni provinces were rocked by four separate bombings, killing at least 11 civilians. At least 11 civilians were killed and 13 others wounded in four separate bombings in Afghanistan on Thursday, hours after a three-day ceasefire began across the country to mark the Muslim festival of Eid …