A US-Taliban deal that was supposed to kickstart peace talks between the insurgents and the Kabul government is looking flimsier by the day, with fighting raging across Afghanistan and no one sure about what comes next.

Chaotic week after US-Taliban deal leaves Afghans' fate unclear

Afghan presidential candidate Gulbuddin Hekmatyar on Saturday said that the incumbent government in Kabul is a hurdle in the way of bringing peace to the war-ravaged country.

Afghan presidential candidate Hekmatyar says incumbent government a hurdle in way of peace

Omaid Sharifi, who heads a Kabul-based art collective, sits in his studio and leafs through a stack of dozens of hand-written letters, reading out sentences at random.

Sidelined young Afghans pen 'letters of pain' as war rages

Kerry said a peace deal signed last month by Hezb-i-Islami group's chief was a 'model for what might be possible'

Kerry urges Taliban to choose 'honourable' peace

Officials in Kabul say lack of ammunition and few reinforcements were the main reasons for the district's fall to the Taliban

Afghan troops retake parts of Kunduz hours after Taliban captured area