The High Council for National Reconciliation expects the Taliban to get ready for intra-Afghan negotiations that have faced multiple delays and are expected to begin this week, according to an official of the council

The Herat-Badghis highway in the west of the country was cleared of the Taliban in an operation by security forces, officials said, adding that at least 15 militants were killed in the operation

The Afghan government’s peace negotiating delegation’s visit to Qatar was once again postponed due to several problems their Taliban interlocutors face in Pakistan

Afghans in various regions of the country on Friday called on the Afghan government and the Taliban to swiftly engage in intra-Afghan negotiations and take bold steps to end the bloody conflict that has gripped the nation for the past two decades

At least 46 Taliban insurgents were killed and 37 others wounded in clashes with the Afghan security forces in the North of Afghanistan

Deborah Lyons, UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, while briefing the UN Security Council on Thursday called for a humanitarian ceasefire to be announced in the country as the negotiating teams of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the Taliban prepare to sit in Doha for talks that are aimed to end the deadly conflict that has gripped the nation for the past two decades

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah, Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation, met the negotiation team ahead of the much-awaited intra-Afghan talks with the Taliban, the Presidential Palace announced

Javid Faisal, the spokesman for the National Security Council (NSC) on Thursday confirmed the completion of the Taliban prisoner release except for a half dozen prisoners about which international partners have reservations

Afghanistan has recorded 40 new positive coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total tally to 38,243 across the country

Swedish media report that Fazel Mahmood Fazli, a top adviser to President Ashraf Ghani has received “illegal” financial assistance from Stockholm for his children by providing wrong information about his job in the Afghan government

Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency or the ISI could be planning attacks on Indian establishments in Afghanistan while India is engaged with China at other frontiers, intelligence agencies have flagged

An official of Afghanistan's High Council for National Reconciliation has said that the prisoner swap process with the Taliban will end soon, paving the way for the much-awaited talks between the militant group and the Kabul government

The Afghan government-run high council for national reconciliation says they expect to hold the first round of negotiations with the Taliban delegation next week

190 people have been killed and 172 others were wounded in the recent flash floods in the country, the State Ministry for Natural Disasters Management said on Tuesday

Former President Hamid Karzai welcomed the restart of releasing of Taliban prisoners from government jails, calling it “an important and good step”