The reconciliation council calls on the government and Taliban to “peacefully resolve the problems over prisoner swap” as Ghani administration still insists on keeping 600 Taliban prisoners suspected of “big crimes”

US Envoy for Afghanistan Peace, Zalmay Khalilzad has said that the Islamic Republic of Iran had not done as it was expected to help the peace process of Afghanistan

Afghan military authorities say that the over 50 Taliban fighters were killed and 38 others wounded in clashes with the Afghan security forces in the southern provinces of Kandahar and Zabul

Former President Hamid Karzai and Abdullah Abdullah, the chairman of the reconciliation council have condemned an airstrike carried out by Afghan Air Force to target Taliban militants in Herat province – violence and killings would not help the peace negotiations

Residents of Gozara district in the western province of Herat claim that 12 civilians were killed and another 20 wounded in an aerial attack that targeted a Taliban gathering this week

The Taliban have once again insisted on their previous instance of the prisoner release to start peace negotiations with Kabul administration

US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad, while speaking at a virtual event organized by the US Institute of Peace, said that the intra-Afghan talks have never been so close

Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health on Friday reported 60 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 557 samples tested over the last 24 hours

The United States has allocated more than $36.7 million to help the people of Afghanistan respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, and expedited $90 million in continued development assistance through the World Bank to support Afghanistan’s national health and education sectors and local government needs, the US embassy in Kabul said in a statement on Thursday

Acting Defense Minister Asadullah Khalid, during the induction ceremony of General Yasin Zia as the new chief of army staff and Shah Mahmood Miakhel as the deputy minister of the interior on Thursday, stressed that the Taliban "are killing Afghan citizens in the name of Islam," but are "at peace with the Americans."

In defiance of their commitments not to rejoin the war, a number of Taliban prisoners who were released from the Afghan government jails have reintegrated their colleagues on the battlefields, the Office of National Security Council (ONSC) said on Thursday as violence continue to expand in multiple fronts across the country despite international calls on the Taliban to reduce violence

At least 250 Afghan security force members were killed and over 300 others injured in 220 attacks carried out by the Taliban in the past three weeks in the 11 provinces of the country, a media report said

Local officials in northern Balkh have confirmed the releasement of 16 Afghan security forces by the Taliban to complete the prisoners swap process in a bid to pay the ground for the intra-Afghan negotiations

Local Afghan government announced ban of the natural resources in the mountainous province of Bamyan to maintain plants and prevent the damage of the environment

The 203 Shaheen military corps says that at least 53 Taliban militants were killed by the army in the past 24 hours