News Afghanistan Politics: Iran’s cooperation with the Taliban could affect talks on U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan
Iran viewed it as imperative to create a bulwark against a Saudi domination of the Afghan political, security and religious landscapes by forging ties with groups beyond its traditional allies ...
News Afghanistan Politics: Afghan Leader Rejects Foreign Interference as Talks Advance
where the insurgents have a political office. Speaking after the Eid prayers, Ghani insisted that next month's presidential election is essential so that Afghanistan's leader will have a powerful ...
News Afghanistan Politics: Afghan Ambassador: Taliban Attacks Undermine Negotiations
Unrelenting Taliban attacks like the deadly car bomb that rocked Kabul on Wednesday are undermining the credibility of negotiations to end the nearly 18-year-old war in Afghanistan, the country's ambassador to the U.S. said.
News Afghanistan Politics: Trump Says He Could Win Afghanistan War “in a Week” but Afghanistan Would Be “Wiped Off the Face of the Earth”
Speaking to reporters before a meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan Monday, President Trump offered some insight into his thinking on the now 18-year-old U.S. war in Afghanistan that ...
News Afghanistan Politics: US service member killed in Afghanistan
A record 3,804 Afghan civilians were killed last year due to stepped-up air attacks by U.S.-led forces and more suicide bombings, the United Nations said in a February report. U.S. President Donald ...
News Afghanistan Politics: General Calls Rushed Troop Withdrawal From Afghanistan a ‘Strategic Mistake’
We’re looking for a peace agreement.” On Tuesday, the Taliban and some representatives from the Afghan government agreed to a basic outline for negotiating a political future and reducing civilian ...
News Afghanistan Politics: Pakistan supports an Afghanistan that is at peace with itself: FM Qureshi.
If there is, at times, variance in approaches, it must not be construed as difference in objectives." Heads of all Afghan political parties and the political advisory to the Afghan president are ...
News Afghanistan Politics: Hekmatyar among Afghan political leaders in Pakistan for peace moot
Hizb-e-Islami Afghanistan chief Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and several other influential Afghan leader arrived in Pakistan on Friday for a conference that will focus on peace process and how to bridge ...
News Afghanistan Politics: US Exit Looms Over Afghanistan Peace Process
A few days ago, the political chief of the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, visited China. The visit comes ahead of another round of talks between the Taliban and the United States ...
News Afghanistan Politics: UN envoy: Goal now must be Afghan-Taliban peace negotiations
The U.N. envoy for Afghanistan says all peace efforts including a new initiative by Germany and Qatar for talks among Afghans must be directed at starting formal negotiations between the government and the Taliban
News Afghanistan Politics: Long, Rowdy Feud in Afghan Parliament Mirrors Wider Political Fragility
KABUL, Afghanistan — Fistfights broke out and furniture was smashed in Afghanistan’s Parliament on Wednesday as disagreement about who should lead the country’s new lower house dragged into its second ...
News Afghanistan Politics: Panel: Political End to Afghan War is Risky but Necessary
Talks between the United States and the Taliban over Afghanistan’s future remain risky but necessary to reach a political settlement to end decades of war, a leading expert in South Asia ...
News Afghanistan Politics: Large-Scale Assault Hits Afghan Capital After Relative Lull, 10 Dead
Saturday’s bloodshed came a day after representatives of the Taliban were to have met in the Gulf state of Qatar with a delegation of Afghan political and civil-society leaders flown from Kabul. The ...
News Afghanistan Politics: Afghanistan Trade Policy Achievements and Issues
Afghanistan’s post-Taliban economic and the political era is a much different one than it was before the year 2001 (i.e. during Taliban regime) which the improvement is recognized by a great level of ...
News Afghanistan Politics: US Withdrawal From Afghanistan Focus of Next Talks: Taliban
Doha: Upcoming talks between the Taliban and the United States will focus on the timetable for pulling all foreign forces from Afghanistan, according to a senior Taliban member. In an interview with ...
