Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and rival Abdullah Abdullah are close to resolving a standoff over last year’s disputed presidential election that has launched the country’s politics to pandemonium

The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday said that he is "appalled" by reports that say Afghan migrants were “abused, tortured and drowned” by Iranian border guards

Afghanistan’s former first vice president and leader of the National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan, General Abdul Rashid Dostum, would be awarded the rank of marshal as part of a proposed political agreement between President Ashraf Ghani and his political rival Abdullah Abdullah, said a close aide to Dostum on Thursday

The Ministry of Public Health on Thursday announced that in the past 24 hours 171 positive cases have been recorded across the country, and the country total is 3,563

The government has released 52 Taliban prisoners as the process of prisoner swap continues with the hope of beginning of the peace negotiations

Sher Abbas Stanekzai, Taliban chief negotiator, says ceasefire with the US-led foreign forces is intact but there is no ceasefire with the Afghan government forces as it is not part of the US-Taliban agreement

The Afghan Presidential Palace has reported progress in ending the dispute between President Ashraf Ghani and his mainpolitical opponent Abdullah Abdullah, who has also announced a development in the process and vowed a soon-to-come political agreement

The Afghan Ministry of Defense said that Afghan National Security and Defense Forces (ANDSF) repelled scores of attacks initiated by the Taliban in 15 provinces over the past 24 hours

At least five Afghan soldiers were killed and seven injured when Taliban militants detonated an explosives-laden truck near a military outpost in Helmand province, officials said on Monday

Scores of stranded Afghans in Pakistan have taken temporary shelter in different mosques, shops and even abandoned railway tunnels in near the countries' border for the last four days, a media report said on Monday

Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) warned that gatherings around bakeries for government-funded bread distribution could increase the spread of the novel coronavirus among the public

98 Taliban fighters have been released from government detention in a recent step of prisoner release

The US military in Afghanistan warned the Taliban of a response if the militant group continued with its attacks in violation of an agreement that was inked by the two sides in February

Nearly 400 Afghan civilians have been killed and over 500 others received injuries in different act of violence carried out by the Taliban group in the past few weeks, security official said on Saturday

At least 23 Afghan migrants are alleged to have been killed by Iranian border troops, witnesses say. The Afghans who were trying to cross the border illegally, were arrested by Iranian border guards and were drowned