NATO’s new Senior Civil Representative to Afghanistan, Stefano Pontecorvo has assured strong support to a peaceful Afghanistan free from terrorism

The Taliban has freed 36 Afghan detainees from its custody in Farah province and handed them over to security forces on Saturday, in the latest round of prisoner swap

At least 11 members of the Afghan local police, including their commander, were killed in a roadside bomb blast in Badakhshan province on Friday night, the provincial police spokesman Sanaullah Rohani said

The Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) in a statement issued late on Friday vowed a thorough probe into an incident in which three Afghan nationals were killed after their vehicle was shot by Iranian police in Yazd province in the center of Iran

Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health reported 915 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 1,763 samples tested in the last 24 hours, which is the highest daily count so far. The total accumulated cases in the country are 18,969

At least 10 Afghan security forces members were killed on Friday morning in an ambush by the Taliban on the Zabul-Kandahar highway near the city of Qalat, in Zabul province, said Ata Jan Haq Bayan, head of Zabul's provincial council

The Taliban initiated on average 30 attacks on the Afghan security forces each day after the Eid-ul-Fitr ceasefire, sources within the Afghan government said on Thursday amid persistent calls by the international community for the Taliban to extend the ceasefire

Western envoys  in a statement on Thursday welcomed the formation of the High Council for National Reconciliation and called on Afghan parties involved in the peace process to ensure the inclusion of women, minorities and civil society institutions for "meaningful peace negotiation."

Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health on Thursday reported 787 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 1,296 samples tested in the last 24 hours, bringing the total accumulated cases in the country to 18,054

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani pleaded on Wednesday with the insurgents to observe another ceasefire to set the motion for the direct talks with the government

At least nine civilians were killed after their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in southern Kandahar province, security officials said

Sirajuddin Haqqani, the deputy leader of the Taliban, said that despite the group's belief in the peace negotiation talks as one of the core components of the solution to the conflict in Afghanistan, the Taliban will still continue the path of jihad (holy war) and strengthen its military power

The Afghan National Police (ANP) has arrested 17 terrorists involved in a series of bomb attacks in Kabul, the country's Ministry of Interior said on Wednesday

A powerful bomb ripped through a popular mosque in Kabul's fortified green zone on Tuesday, killing at least two persons and injuring two others, police said

Kunduz police chief Abdul Rasheed Bashir, and the district governor of Qala-e-Zal Fahim Qarluq, both died from COVID-19, officials said on Wednesday