A group of Faryab residents in a public uprising against the Taliban cleared five villages under the control of the insurgent group in Shirin Tagab district

At least nine people were killed and around 40 injured on Monday in a Taliban suicide attack near a security base in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, officials said

After months of political deadlock, Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani and his election rival Abdullah Abdullah on Sunday signed a power-sharing agreement in which Ghani remains in his post and Abdullah takes a leading role in the peace process

Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and his rival Abdullah Abdullah have inked a power-sharing agreement to end the political deadlock following last year's presidential election, a government officials have confirmed

At least seven people were killed and 25 others injured in a Taliban attack and an ensuing gunfight outside an intelligence agency camp in Afghanistan's Ghazni province on Monday, a security source said

Finally the warring Afghan leaders—President Ashraf Ghani and his estranged ally Abdullah Abdullah— have agreed to sign a political agreement that will set the motion for a power-sharing or coalition government after months of dispute and marathon mediation bids

The National Security Council accuses Taliban militants for killing civilians, saying the insurgents killed 79 innocent people only in the past one week

The diametrically opposite claims of the Afghan government and the US government about the deadly terror attack on the Kabul maternity hospital in which two dozen nurses, mothers and newly-born babies were killed early this week, indicate why the peace deal in Afghanistan is tenuous

Dozens of men and women on Friday flocked to Ataturk Hospital to adopt those Afghan babies who lost their parents in the aftermath of a deadly attack on a maternity ward on Tuesday

The US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad on Friday briefed the US State Department on the situation in Afghanistan, particularly the situation which has emerged in the country following Tuesday’s deadly attacks on a maternity hospital in capital Kabu

The Pentagon has said that the US was committed to the troops' drawdown plan stipulated in the peace agreement that Washington inked with the Taliban in February

Defending his military strategy against insurgents, President Ashraf Ghani on Friday said his administration will never oppose efforts for peace and reconciliation, but warned that the Afghan armed forces deserve the right to defend the nation against threats and create conditions for a dignified peace

Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai urged for an immediate stop of the current war and other acts that cause the deepening of differences among the people of the country

US Special Representative for Afghan Reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad said that the Islamic State (IS) terror group had conducted two deadly attacks in Afghanistan earlier this week, which killed more than 50 civilians

The recent wave of deadly attacks on civilian targets in Afghanistan were on Thursday branded “war crimes” by the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC)