Tass: No contacts on Afghanistan are currently being planned in any format as the process of prisoner exchange between Kabul and the Taliban radical movement (outlawed in Russia as a terrorist organization – TASS) has stalled, Russian president’s special envoy for Afghanistan and director of the Russian foreign ministry’s second Asia department, Zamir Kabulov, told
Tolo News: A key member of the Taliban’s political office in Doha has blamed the Afghan government for delays in the intra-Afghan negotiations that are aimed at ending the decades of war in the country. The talks were expected to begin 10 days after the Feb. 29 deal between the US and the Taliban, but
Tribune News Service: India has thanked the Afghan government for the safe return of kidnapped Sikh Nidan Singh Sachdeva and has decided to facilitate the return of Afghan Hindu and Sikh community members facing security threats in Afghanistan to India, said the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in a statement. There are about 1,000 Sikh
Ariana: Following the Afghan government’s demand for providing a revised list of Taliban prisoners, the group rejected the offer and insisted on the release of all those inmates mentioned in the list already shared with the government. Sources close to the Taliban said the group has asked the Afghan government to clarify why the group’s
PUL-E-KHUMRI, July 17 (Xinhua) — Six civilians and three police officers were wounded in a bomb attack in Afghanistan’s northern province of Baghlan on Friday, a local official confirmed. “Nine wounded people were admitted at a main provincial hospital Friday morning. Some of the affected people sustained serious wounds,” Haleem Ghafari from provincial health directorate
Michael Hughes: The fact the Taliban established seven new training camps on Afghan soil in the past 30 days just as U.S. forces were exiting five military bases is likely not a pure coincidence. However, its significance will be impossible to weigh until more is known about the U.S. anti-terror posture after the conditions-based-in-name-only exit
By Ayaz Gul VOA News July 16, 2020 ISLAMABAD – The Taliban said Thursday it has already released 845 Afghan security forces under an ongoing prisoner swap with the Kabul government and is working to free the remaining 155 in line with the insurgent group’s agreement with the United States. Taliban political spokesman Suhail Shaheen shared
By Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News July 14,2020 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN – Nearly 3,000 civilians, around 16 per day, have been killed or wounded in the conflict in Afghanistan in the first six months of this year, according to the country’s official human rights body. The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) issued its report Tuesday in Kabul,
Tolo News: A US official in Kabul, speaking on condition of anonymity, said on Tuesday that the five bases closed in Afghanistan–in compliance with the US-Taliban peace agreement–were in Helmand, Uruzgan, Paktika and Laghman provinces. The US peace envoy for Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, in a tweet on Tuesday morning said: “As we look to the
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 13, 2020 A major Taliban attack on the offices of Afghanistan’s main intelligence agency has killed at least 11 security personnel and wounded dozens of others, mostly civilians. A group of militants detonated a car bomb at the entrance of the National Security Directorate (NDS) offices in Aybak, the capital