Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 15, 2019 The Afghan Taliban on September 15 revoked their ban on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and restored its guarantee for the security of ICRC staff doing humanitarian work in Afghanistan. “The Islamic Emirate restores the former security guarantees to ICRC in Afghanistan and instructs all
1TV: US presidential hopeful Joe Biden has said that Afghanistan is three countries and it cannot be put together. Speaking at a debate, Democratic Biden, who is a former US vice president, claimed that Pakistan owns three provinces in the east of Afghanistan. “Pakistan owns the three counties — the three provinces in the east. They’re
1TV: Afghan government said on Saturday it suspended efforts related to peace process until presidential election which is scheduled to be held on September 28. Addressing a press conference in Kabul, presidential spokesman Sediq Sediqi said that election was priority, adding consultations on peace would begin after the vote. He reiterated that the election will be
Press TV September 14, 2019 A team of negotiators from the Afghan Taliban has traveled to Russia days after the collapse of year-long negotiations between the US and the militant group. Taliban’s Qatar-based spokesman Suhail Shaheen told Russia’s TASS news agency on Friday that the group’s delegation had met with Zamir Kabulov, President Vladimir Putin’s envoy for Afghanistan,
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 14, 2019 President Donald Trump says he can now confirm that Hamza bin Laden, the son of the deceased Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden, has been killed by a military operation along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. “The loss of Hamza bin Laden not only deprives Al-Qaeda of important leadership skills and
Ayaz Gul VOA News September 13, 2019 ISLAMABAD – Afghan President Ashraf Ghani told an election rally Friday that more than 2,000 Taliban fighters have been killed over the past week and insisted his elected office is where the insurgent group must come to seek a decisive political settlement to the conflict. Ghani’s assertions came
The Washington Post: Thursday’s democratic debate in Houston took place less than a week after President Trump unexpectedly called off peace talks with the Taliban, following landmark meetings between American and Taliban representatives in Qatar that had raised hopes for an end to nearly 18 years of war in Afghanistan… On Thursday, debate moderator David Muir kicked
Tolo News: A spokesman of the Taliban political office in Qatar, Suhail Shaheen, has said that the US President Donald Trump’s decision to call off negotiations with the group was “surprising” and “astonishing” to the group as they were preparing for the signing of a peace deal which was “finalized in principle” when they heard about