BEIJING – China said on Monday that it hoped the Afghan government and the Taliban as well as concerned parties will work together for the resumption of Afghan peace talks at an early date. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hong Lei ...

AFGHANISTAN: President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani called on Taliban militants group to choose between war and peace, insisting that the group is facing a major test to choose between the country, nation and militancy. In his speech during the inauguration of ...

The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said the ongoing talks by the Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG) were Afghanistan’s only hope for peace. In interview with India’s The Hindu newspaper, Karzai said there is no other hope for peace despite ...

TALIBAN: The Taliban militants group in Afghanistan rejected to sit-in for direct peace talks with the Afghan government in the framework of the Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG). According to a statement released by the group, the decision to refrain from ...

KABUL: US Army General John W. “Mick” Nicholson on Wednesday took command of the US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, warning Taliban militants to renounce insurgency. The change of command ceremony took place at the NATO’s Resolute Support Mission headquarters ...

AFGHANISTAN: The Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal has said the Afghan Taliban support and want peace, expressing optimisms that the group will likely participate in peace negotiations with the Afghan government in the near future. Citing persistent issues ...

AFGHANISTAN: An Afghan woman has killed a Taliban commander over home privacy breach in northern Baghlan province of Afghanistan, security officials said Friday. Provincial police spokesman, Jawed Basharat, said the incident took place in Khwajah Bahauddin district of Baghlan province ...

Russia is urging the Taliban to start direct talks with the central government in Afghanistan and hopes that such negotiations will begin soon, according to Reuters, Interfax news agency quoted a senior Russian diplomat as saying on Wednesday. “We are ...

The Taliban group representatives based in Qatar insist on preconditions of the group as direct talks between the Afghan government and representatives of the Taliban is expected to take place in the first week of March. Admitting that the group ...

AFGHANISTAN: Deadly clashes have been erupting between two rival groups of Taliban in central Ghazni province of Afghanistan, officials said on Tuesday. The provincial governor said that one group belongs to Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour and the other one to Mullah ...