The intra-Afghan talks will be started three days after the completion of the prisoner swap between the Afghan government and the Taliban, sources within the Afghan government have said

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Thursday said that "all barriers and excuses have been removed" ahead of the intra-Afghan talks with the Taliban

Based on some reports a top government official has flown to Qatar to meet the Taliban representatives to ask them not to discuss the formation of an interim government and not put it on the agenda of the intra-Afghan negotiations

Sources in the Afghan government say that France and Australia are unhappy with the release of a number of 400 Taliban prisoners expected to be released from government custody

The Taliban who had vowed to cut all ties with the international terrorist organizations under a peace deal with the United States are still holding relations with the al-Qaeda, an Islamist terrorist network responsible for the 09/11 attacks in New York and Washington, President Ghani’s office alleges, citing reports by the United Nations and the Pentagon

US Special Envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad has said that despite serious challenges, the peace-efforts reached an optimistic state for ending the four decades war in Afghanistan

Three were killed, and 16 were wounded -- including six civilians --in Tuesday's rocket attacks in Kabul, the Ministry of Interior said on Wednesday

US Special Representative for the Afghan peace process Zalmay Khalilzad in a tweet on Afghanistan's Independence Day has said that a political agreement is a road to end war in the country

A resolution introduced in US Congress seeks to resettle these persecuted religious communities from Afghanistan, The Times of India reported Wednesday

In response to a recent report by US intelligence agencies saying that Iran offered bounties to Taliban fighters to target American and coalition troops in Afghanistan, the Afghan government on Tuesday warned Afghanistan’s neighboring and regional countries against using the Taliban as a proxy in Afghanistan

Fourteen rockets hit a diplomatic district and other neighbourhoods of Kabul on Tuesday injuring a total of 10 people, as Afghanistan marked its 101st Independence Day, a spokesman of the Interior Ministry confirmed

Fatima Sultani, an 18-year-old Afghan woman, spoke to TOLOnews and said she and companions reached the summit of Noshakh in the Hindu Kush mountains, which is the highest peak in Afghanistan at 7,492 metres

President Ashraf Ghani on Monday warned that a possible deal made by the international community on the fate of Afghans will be rejected by Kabul, and he pledged that the republic and the government forces will not be compromised in the peace process with the Taliban

At least 32 Taliban militants were killed and 20 others injured during a clash which erupted after security forces struck the terror group's hideouts in Badghis province, a top official said on Monday

Three Afghan officials were sacked for negligence over the assassination of a policewoman in Kunduz province, it was reported