ISLAMABAD - Cracks have emerged in the Afghan government's negotiating team for proposed peace talks with the Taliban, just a day after the country's president issued a decree finalizing 48 names for the key discussions. Ashraf Ghani’s former political rival Abdullah Abdullah, chairman of ...

KABUL - Pakistan is likely to host crucial meeting on Afghanistan peace talks in which key politicians and officials will attend. Pakistan is expected to host a meeting on the Afghan peace process with the participation of some prominent Afghan politicians, sources said on Thursday, TOLO News has ...

KABUL: The Vice-President of Afghanistan, General Abdul Rashid Dostum narrowly escaped in a bid on his life in Balkh Province.  Afghan officials said the attakers ambushed Gen Dostum's convoy on the way from Mazar-i-Sharif in Balkh province to Jawzjan province in northern ...

ISLAMABAD - Taliban fighters on Saturday attacked a convoy carrying Afghanistan's vice president Abdul Rashid Dostum, in an assault that left the former warlord unscathed but killed one of his bodyguards, an official told AFP. Enayatullah Babur, Dostum's former chief of staff, said the ...

KABUL – Afghan President Ashraf Ghani will seek re-election in 2019, his office announced Saturday, as potential rivals begin jockeying for the country s top job ahead of the ballot. Ghani, who was elected in a fraud-tainted poll in 2014 that was only resolved in a US-brokered power-sharing ...

*KABUL - A suicide bomber blew himself up near an Afghan intelligence convoy on Thursday, killing at least five people and wounding six, police said, in the latest deadly attack in the city.* The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack on the National Directorate of Security (NDS), which ...

*KABUL - A top U.S. general on Monday urged Pakistan to make a commitment towards reducing violence in Afghanistan and encourage Taliban to pursue peace talks with the Afghan government.* Addressing a joint news conference on Monday in Kabul, the commander of the U.S. Central Command, General ...

KABUL: At least three people were wounded after several rockets were fired into Kabul on Tuesday, police said, but there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the latest attack on the Afghan capital. “Three rockets were fired on Kabul city from an unknown direction and… hit residential ...

KABUL - The death toll from a suicide attack near Kabul international airport has risen to 23, the health ministry said Monday, with an AFP driver among the dead. At least 107 others were wounded in Sunday’s powerful explosion, which happened as scores of people were leaving the airport after ...

KABUL: A suicide bomber killed or wounded at least 10 people at the entrance to Kabul international airport on Sunday, officials said, as scores gathered to welcome home Afghan Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum from exile. Senior government officials, political leaders and supporters ...