The sources further said that after finalizing an agreement with the US, the Taliban will commit to reducing the level of violence.
December 7, 2019It also comes at a dangerous time, with the Taliban insurgency still raging and most NATO-led forces preparing to leave the country by the end of the year.
November 29, 2019"The Taliban wants to make a deal," Trump told troops at the Bagram Air Base, where he also met Afghan President Ashraf Ghani.
November 29, 2019On Thursday, Trump spoke to President Ghani over the phone in the United Arab Emirates where Ghani was on his official visit.
November 22, 2019Haqqani is the military wing of the Taliban outfit that is operational in Kabul and in the eastern region of the war-battered country.
November 19, 2019No group has claimed the responsibility for the attack yet.
October 19, 2019It is a measure of the crisis in governance that a section of the electorate has been sceptical about a poll that has turned out to be a rerun of the spurious tryst with democracy in 2014.
October 1, 2019Incumbent President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and his Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah are among the 15 candidates in the fray in the election.
September 28, 2019Saturday's presidential election is the fourth in Afghanistan since 2001 when the US troops invaded the country to oust the Taliban regime.
September 28, 2019An explosive device was planted on a wall of the campaign office, which went off on Tuesday evening, an official said.
September 25, 2019Wahida Shahkar, spokeswoman for the provincial governor in Parwan said the explosion happened at the entrance of the venue hosting the rally.
September 17, 2019Over the weekend, Trump cancelled secret plans to host a Taliban delegation in the US after the militant group admitted killing a US soldier.
September 10, 2019The development emerged after the US envoy negotiating with the Taliban, Zalmay Khalilzad, briefed Afghan officials in Kabul on an agreement "in principle" the two sides had reached following nine rounds of talks in Qatar.
September 7, 2019His trip to Washington comes after Kabul has shown frustration about the US-Taliban deal which is ‘agreed in principle’.
September 6, 2019Kay further said that there is a need for NATO military presence in Afghanistan until all threats are eliminated from the country.
August 29, 2019The Taliban has convened an internal meeting after which they will again resume discussions with the US negotiators.
August 27, 2019"The number of troops has not been mentioned in the bilateral agreement (between Afghanistan and the US) and in multilateral agreement with NATO… Reduction or increase in the number of troops is conditions-based," Ghani said.
August 23, 2019