On 18February 2021, Mr. Hekmat Khalil Karzai hosted HE Ole Andreas Lindeman for a luncheon to discuss the security situation in Afghanistan and development in the Afghan peace process. The two sides discussed the scheduled withdrawal of all US and NATO troops by 1 May 2021 and possible extension of this deadline. Ambassador Lindeman and Mr.
(The Voice of America): Two back-to-back international meetings are being convened in Qatar this week to press Afghanistan’s warring parties to resume peace negotiations and reach a deal before the Afghan conflict spirals out of control. The diplomatic effort comes amid dramatic battlefield advances by Taliban insurgents even as the United States continues airstrikes in
(CNN): The Taliban has warned the United States against further intervention in Afghanistan, a Taliban spokesperson told news network Al Jazeera Arabic on Sunday, after the insurgent group seized control of three provincial capitals within days of each other. There is no ceasefire agreement with the Afghan government on the horizon as the Taliban continues
(The New York Times): The Taliban seized three Afghan cities on Sunday, including the commercial hub of Kunduz, officials said, escalating a sweeping offensive that has claimed five provincial capitals in three days and shown how little control the government has over the country without American military power to protect it. Never before in 20
(TOLO News): The security forces supported by public uprising forces retook the control of Farkhar and Worsaj districts in Takhar on Sunday after they retreated from the capital city Taluqan, sources said. The government and Taliban have not yet confirmed the news. In Balkh, heavy clashes are underway in Dehdadi district since Sunday night, sources
(TIME): Taliban fighters seized most of the capital of northern Afghanistan’s key Kunduz province on Sunday, and took another neighboring provincial capital after a monthlong siege. The advances were the latest in a series of blows to government forces as U.S. troops complete their pullout after nearly two decades in the country. The militiamen planted
(The notional): Afghan businessman Mohammad Zahir never thought he would leave his home of 20 years in Mazar-i-Sharif, but when the Taliban appeared at the gates of the main city in Balkh province in June, he decided it was time to go. Now, he and his family are among thousands of Afghans who have fled
(KHAAMA Press): s war is escalating in Afghanistan and the Taliban have taken four provinces, the already host-country of the slow-moving intra-Afghan talks, Qatar is ready to host two other international meetings on peace in Afghanistan. The Troika plus is planned to be arranged on Wednesday this week which will be attended by US special
(ATN News): Some members of Afghanistan’s Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of Parliament) said on Sunday that more than 60% of customs revenue is now being collected by the Taliban after they captured border crossings. MP’s said this amounts to about 200 million AFN a day. The financial and budget commission of the Wolesi Jirga said
(BNA): The U.S. and British embassies in Kabul said on Monday the insurgent Taliban may have committed war crimes in southern Afghanistan by carrying out revenge murders of civilians, a charge denied by the insurgents. The U.S. Embassy in the capital Kabul tweeted a statement accusing the Taliban of killing dozens of civilians in the area
