KABUL - Civilian casualties in Afghanistan hit historic high of 10,300, United Nations report has claimed. A new report by the United Nations released on Saturday – amid the start of a reduction in violence countrywide – shows that a record number of civilians were killed in 2019 in the ...

KABUL: A record 4,313 civilians were injured or killed in Afghanistan`s war against the Islamist Taliban between July and September, the United Nations (UN) said on Thursday. The tally was up 42 per cent from the same period last year - in a war that ebbs and flows with the seasonal weather - and ...

NEW YORK - World Powers China and Russia hit out at United States at the UN Security Council over Afghanistan deadlock. World powers at the UN asked US to resume the peace negotiations few days after US President Donald Trump called off the talks with the militant group. The envoys who ...

Foreign Secretary Sohail Mahmood has reaffirmed Pakistan's support for peace and development in Afghanistan. He expressed this commitment at a meeting with UN Secretary General's Special Representative on Afghanistan Tadamichi Yamamoto in Islamabad on Monday.

KABUL: In a report, the international body said pro-government forces were responsible for 54% of civilian deaths during the first three months of 2019. Tadamichi Yamamoto, the UN's special representative for Afghanistan, called the latest figures "shocking". The findings come as civilian ...

ISLAMABAD - Afghan civilians are for the first time being killed in greater numbers by US and pro-government forces than by the Taliban and other insurgent groups, a UN report released Wednesday revealed. The bloody milestone comes as the US steps up its air campaign in Afghanistan while pushing ...

KABUL - An Afghan peace negotiations team has arrived in Abu Dhabi, an official said Tuesday, a day after talks attended by US and Taliban representatives were held in the city aimed at ending the 17-year conflict. The team, led by chief negotiator Abdul Salam Rahimi, "arrived in Abu Dhabi to ...

*ISLAMABAD - Pakistan helped in the dialogue between the Taliban and the US in Abu Dhabi on Monday, remarked Prime Minister Imran Khan.* “Let us pray that this leads to peace and ends almost three decades of suffering of the brave Afghan people,” the premier wrote on social media. “Pakistan ...

Head of the U.N. peace mission for Afghanistan Tadamichi Yamamoto has said a negotiated end to the Afghan conflict has never been more real than it is now. He said appointment of a team to negotiate the Taliban to end their terrorist campaign, and the announcement of a peace advisory board ...

UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations has called on anti-Government elements in Afghanistan to immediately stop using improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in civilian areas, after the UN mission in the country recorded a sharp rise in civilian casualties caused by the explosives this year. A special ...