AT-KABUL: The peace movement says it was more optimistic to a durable peace in the country than the past, arguing that the joining of more people from different areas has encouraged them for peace. The movement members who had started a long trip on foot from the southern province of …

AT-KABUL: Senior politician Hamid Karzai expressed on Sunday his condolences over the death of prominent U.S. senator John McCain. “I extend my condolences on the sad demise of Senator John McCain. In the many years of meetings and engagements with Senator McCain I found him honourable and friendly. I also …

AT-KABUL: National Directorate of Security on Sunday said that the Daesh leader for Afghanistan, Saad Irhabi, was killed in an airstrike Saturday night in eastern Nangarhar province, dealing a devastating blow to the notorious terrorist group. The overnight airstrike in Jangal Keli village of Khogianai district in Nangarhar resulted in …

Top security officials tendered their resignations, but President Ashraf Ghani did not accept, asking them to work for improvement of security in the country, especially in Kabul. However, some people say that the resignation saga of some security officials is just a symbolic exercise because the core intention within the …

AT-KABUL: The defense ministry says terrorist groups threaten security in Afghanistan from either inside or outside the country, a statement likely in reaction to allegations over the Daesh terrorist group’s activities in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtoonkhaw province of Pakistan. Afghanistan claims that terrorists come from Pakistan, asking Islamabad to prevent …

AT-KABUL: The Grand National Coalition of Afghanistan, an alliance of several political parties, has warned it would not obey the government anymore. In a statement, the coalition said Sunday that if the government did not meet its demands its followers would close the doors of electoral commissions. It accused the …

AT-KABUL: The US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Wednesday that the United States will not leave Afghanistan until the Taliban accept to get reconciled with the Afghan government. Speaking in Washington DC, Tillerson said the U.S. remained committed to Afghanistan. “We’re not going anywhere. It is a commitment …

The government has announced it will not send representatives to Russia to join a conference planned to be held in early September with the aim of seeking ways for peace in the war-hit country. Foreign ministry spokesman has told the media that Kabul would not attend the conference because the …

AT-KABUL: A former U.S. official has said that Trump administration needed to increase its pressure on Pakistan to curb terror financing and interfering in Afghanistan. Former US deputy assistant secretary of defense for Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia David Sedney said bluntly that Pakistan had a significant role to play …

AT-KABUL: Political parties have once again raised prospects of massive-scale fraud in the forthcoming parliamentary elections if the government continued to brush off their request for a change in election system. Political parties in a declaration turned the heat up on the government and the election panels for showing no …