By: Alisher Shahir The Afghan Civil Aviation Authority said on Sunday that the country has suffered a loss of $8 million as Pakistan's airspace continues to remain closed to flights to and from India.

How Pakistan's continued partial closure of its airspace impacts Afghanistan

Afghanistan releases one out of 7 abducted Indian nationals

US special envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad Thursday arrived in Pakistan for a fresh round of talks with top civil and military officials during which he is expected to seek Islamabad's help to convince the Taliban to return to the negotiating table to end the 17-year-long Afghan war.

US envoy on Afghanistan arrives in Pakistan for talks

A US citizen was among those killed in a powerful truck bomb attack against a heavily fortified foreign compound in Kabul this week, officials said Wednesday, as the government continued investigating the blast site.

US citizen among dead in Kabul truck bomb attack

President Donald Trump's plan to slash the number of US soldiers in Afghanistan before negotiators have struck a peace deal with the Taliban has crushed hopes among many Afghans for an end to the 17-year conflict.

'Worse every day': Afghans expect 2019 to be even deadlier

The top US commander in Afghanistan has not received orders to pull forces out of the war-torn country, NATO confirmed Monday, days after President Donald Trump's plan to withdraw 7,000 troops leaked to the media.

No orders to pull out: Top US commander in Afghanistan

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Sunday replaced two of the country's top security chiefs with staunch anti-Taliban officials, in a major shake-up days after US President Donald Trump's decision to slash troop numbers in the country.

Afghanistan President Ghani replaces top security chiefs in major shake-up

At least four people were killed and another six injured after a suicide bomber targeted a convoy of security forces in Kabul early Tuesday, officials said, in the latest bloody Taliban-claimed attack in the Afghan capital.

At least 4 dead, 6 wounded in attack on Afghan intelligence service

Car bomb hits UK contractor's compound in Kabul

A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a packed mosque on an Afghan army base during Friday prayers, killing at least 27 people including several soldiers, officials said, in the latest bloody violence to rock the war-torn country.

Afghanistan: 27 killed in suicide attack on mosque in Khost

Afghans risked their lives to vote in legislative elections in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, after the Taliban-claimed killing of a powerful police chief delayed the ballot by a week.

Afghans risk their lives to vote in delayed Kandahar poll

A US army general was among those injured in a Taliban attack on top US and Afghan security chiefs inside a highly secure compound last week in Kandahar province, a military spokesman confirmed.

US Army general wounded in Afghanistan attack

Afghanistan: Four killed in Taliban blast

An Afghan lawmaker contesting this week`s parliamentary elections was among four people killed on Wednesday by a bomb planted under his office chair, officials said, in an attack claimed by Taliban militants.

Afghan election candidate killed by bomb under office chair

The number of Afghans killed or wounded in suicide attacks soared 46 per cent in the first nine months of 2018, the United Nations said Sunday, as militants increasingly target civilians.

Afghan civilian casualties from suicide attacks soar: United Nations 

Afghan officials say insurgents have killed seven police in separate attacks. Wali Ahmad Sarih, a police spokesman in the southern Nimroz province, says the Taliban attacked a checkpoint late Tuesday, killing four police and wounding two others.

Taliban attacks on Afghan checkpoints kill seven policemen

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