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

Despite the country's decaying security nearly 2,000 Afghans — the vast majority of the men — have signed up to host guests on the social networking platform.

'Naive, reckless' tourists couchsurfing in war-torn Afghanistan

Security forces in Pakistan have gunned down four militants, including a top Taliban commander who masterminded the last year's powerful bomb blast in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in which at least 31 people including three Sikhs were killed.

Top Taliban commander among 4 militants killed in Pakistan

The Taliban claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a car bomb attack near a heavily fortified foreign compound in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, that killed at least four people a day earlier.

Afghan Taliban claim responsibility for Kabul car bomb attack

Hafez Mohibullah, who served as Religious Affairs Minister when the Taliban ruled Afghanistan until 2001, was held in Peshawar, the BBC reported.

Pakistan arrests top Taliban member to put pressure on militant outfit to hold talks with US

The US' demand for maintaining long-term military bases in Afghanistan has emerged as a sticking point in talks with the Taliban to end the 17-year-long war in the country, according to a media report in Pakistan.

US demand for long-term military bases in Afghanistan sticking point in peace talks: Report

International rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged major donors to impose sanctions on Afghanistan's newly appointed acting defence minister over alleged war crimes and human rights abuses.

Human Rights Watch calls for sanctions against new Afghan defence minister

Gunmen stormed a police station in western Afghanistan Saturday, killing at least five people and wounding two others, officials said, in the latest violence targeting the war-torn country's beleaguered security forces.

Five killed in militant attack on Afghan police station: Officials

No change on the ground under Pakistan PM Imran Khan: Army Chief Bipin Rawat He assured that the army has managed the situation both at the western and northern border and there is "no cause for concern.

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Major powers like the US and Russia have been reaching out to the Taliban as part of efforts to push the stalled Afghan peace process.

Iran ready to use influence over Taliban to bring peace to Afghanistan: Diplomatic sources

A separate tweet from the US embassy in the Afghan capital stressed that intra-Afghan talks were 'essential' to settling the conflict.

Afghan Taliban cancel peace talks with US citing 'agenda disagreement'

There should be talks with the Taliban: Army chief Bipin Rawat Army chief General Bipin Rawat has said that "there should be talks with Taliban" but without any preconditions.

Army chief General Bipin Rawat has said that "there should be talks with Taliban" but without any preconditions. Speaking at the fourth Raisina Dialogue in Delhi, he said talks with Taliban should happen "so long they don't come with a precondition and so long they look at lasting peace in Afghanistan and bring about stability in the country" and this is "in our interest, in region's interest, and it's in Pakistan's interest.

There should be talks with the Taliban: Army chief Bipin Rawat

Afghanistan as the pawns to the devastating international and regional power games has been caught in uninterrupted civil and proxy wars since 1978. With the collapse of the Taliban regime and the establishment of a new political system in 2001, a mood of optimism and expectations for a better future swept the country.

A viable path for boosting peace in Afghanistan

The Taliban on Tuesday cancelled the planned peace talks with the US officials in Qatar over an agenda disagreement. The meeting was cancelled even after the change in the venue of the meet on the demands of the Taliban.

Taliban call off peace talks with US officials

RBI likely to give government bumper interim dividend: Sources The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), having changed leadership last month following a clash with the government, is likely to transfer an interim dividend of 300-400 billion rupees ($4.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attacks, among the most deadly in the province in many months.

Taliban storm security posts in west Afghanistan, kill 21

The report stated that there was a '29 per cent decline in terrorist attacks and 27 per cent in consequent fatalities in 2018, compared to previous year'.

262 terror attacks killed 595 people in Pakistan in 2018: Report

Afghanistan's National Security Advisor (NSA) Hamdullah Mohib on Friday met India's NSA Ajit Doval at Hyderabad House in which both sides had a detailed exchange of views about the recent developments in Afghanistan.

Day after Trump's jibe at Modi, Afghan government thanks India's assistance

Taliban fighters are threatening major oil wells near the northern Afghan city of Sar-e Pul following days of fighting in which dozens of members of the security forces have been killed and wounded, officials and residents said on Friday.

Taliban threaten oil fields in northern Afghanistan

Afghanistan's National Security Advisor (NSA) Hamdullah Mohib on Friday met India's NSA Ajit Doval at Hyderabad house. Mohib's visit is the first high-level engagement of the Afghan government with India.

Afghanistan's NSA Hamdullah Mohib meets India's NSA Ajit Doval in Delhi

Hundreds of militants were outside Sar-e-Pul city, which provincial governor spokesman Zabihullah Amani said was at risk of falling to the Taliban if reinforcements were not sent.

Taliban kill 21 Afghan security forces, threaten city: Official

Taliban fighters detonated explosives planted in a tunnel below an Afghan military outpost, killing five soldiers, a police official said on Wednesday. Six soldiers were wounded in the attack on Tuesday in the Maiwand district of the southern province of Kandahar, police spokesman Mohammad Ashraf Watandost said.

Taliban blow up Afghan army outpost, killing five soldiers, police say

The Taliban delegation discussed with Iran 'the post-occupation situation, restoration of peace and security in Afghanistan and the region', the militants said.

Afghan Taliban says 'post-occupation' discussed with Iran

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