Ayaz Gul VOA News January 28, 2019 ISLAMABAD — A top Russian diplomat is in Pakistan to discuss efforts to promote direct peace talks between warring sides in neighboring Afghanistan. Russian presidential envoy for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov is visiting Islamabad after last week’s marathon talks between U.S. special representative for Afghan reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad and the
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 27, 2019 U.S. special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad is consulting with Afghan government officials following six days of talks with the Afghan Taliban in Qatar aimed at ending the 17-year conflict in Afghanistan. Khalilzad traveled to the Afghan capital, Kabul, on January 27 after the envoy, U.S. Secretary of State Mike
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Ayaz Gul VOA News January 26, 2019 ISLAMABAD — The United States and the Taliban may have agreed on a plan for American troops to leave Afghanistan, sources privy to the development told VOA Saturday. In return, the insurgent group has given assurances that no international terrorist groups would be allowed to use Afghan soil to
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 25, 2019 Sixteen civilians from the same extended family have been killed in an air strike on a home in southern Afghanistan, an Afghan official says. The air strike was carried out in the Sangin district during heavy fighting between Afghan forces and Taliban militants, Attaullah Afghan, head of the
Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News January 25, 2019 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — As peace talks between the United States and Afghan Taliban enter a crucial stage, the Taliban leadership has announced a new chief negotiator, a man named Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar. According to a statement issued Thursday night by Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid, the action is intended
By RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal January 25, 2019 A co-founder of the Afghan Taliban who was released from detention by Pakistan last year has been appointed as the leader of the militant group’s political office in Qatar. The move comes as the talks with the United States on a potential deal to bring an end to
VOA News Ayaz Gul January 24, 2019 ISLAMABAD — Hopes are running high that uninterrupted, extended peace talks between the United States and the Taliban in Qatar could set the stage for a politically negotiated settlement to the 17-year-old war in Afghanistan. The talks opened Monday with the U.S. team led by Washington’s special representative for
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan January 23, 2019 Afghanistan’s main spy agency says it has killed a Taliban commander who masterminded this week’s attack on Afghan forces at a military base in which scores of people were killed. The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said the commander, whose name it gave only as Noman, was
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 22, 2019 The U.S. military says one of its service members was killed by “enemy small-arms fire” in Afghanistan on January 22. The incident was under investigation, a statement said, without providing further details. It did not name the service member or the branch of the military, pending notification of