(TOLO News): US Chargé d’Affaires Ross Wilson in a chat with reporters on Sunday said that the Taliban is expecting the release of thousands of their prisoners under their agreement with the United States by mid-December. “The specific provision relating to another 7,000 Taliban prisoners is contained in the US-Taliban agreement,” Wilson said. “If you
(KHAAMN PRESS): At least 15 Taliban killed and further five wounded during clashes with Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) in southern province of Kandahar, said the Ministry of Defense in a statement Monday morning. According to the statement, the Taliban initially carried attacked against the security post, where they suffered heavy retaliation in
(Pajhwok): A 12-year-old boy, who sells junk scavenged from garbage heaps, says “I wish our leaders reconcile so that no other child like me becomes orphaned and is forced to collect discarded waste.” The boy, Nasir Ahmad, is a resident of Gerizwan district of Faryab province, but last year after the killing of his father,
(BNN Bloomberg): The government of Afghanistan and the rebel Taliban movement have agreed on procedural rules for peace talks to end the country’s 19 years of conflict. The terms, which consist of 21 articles, have been “approved” by both parties to break weeks of stalemate, Mohammad Naeem, a spokesman for the Taliban in Doha, Qatar,
(ATN News): The Afghanistan Republic’s peace negotiating team said on Saturday night that both sides have agreed in principle to the rules and procedures regarding talks going forward but that this does not mean the framework has been finalized. “The negotiation teams of both sides have ONLY agreed in principle to the 21 articles of
(Pajhwok): Nasreen, 21, has been looking after two families after her father and uncle were killed in the on-going war. Nasreen, a resident of Kunduz City, the capital of northern Kunduz province, said after the killing of her father and uncle, she has been bearing the responsibility to provide food and other needed things to
(KHAAMA Press): At least one police officer was wounded in a magnetic IED blast in PD5 of Kabul city Saturday night, Kabul police spokesman Ferdaws Faramarz said. The Improvised Explosive Devices had been placed on a police vehicle, he said. Ministry of Interior also said, at around 07:45 Am this morning a roadside bomb planted
(Pajhwok): Minister of Foreign Affairs Haneef Atmar has urged the Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to ramp up support for the Afghan peace process. Atmar, speaking at the 47th session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers in Niamey, the capital of Niger, called on Muslim scholars to condemn “unjustified” violence in Afghanistan He
(Pajhwok): Kabul’s negotiating team claims having agreed in principle with the Taliban delegation on rules and procedures for the Doha peace talks. However, this does not mean a framework for the peace negotiations has been finalised, the government team said in a statement on Saturday night. “The negotiating teams have only agreed in principle to
(KHAAMA Press): DOHA, Qatar – The Afghan and Taliban negotiating teams have agreed on the procedural rules after months of struggle, said Mohammad Naeem Wardar, a spokesman for Taliban’s political office in Qatar, Saturday evening. This came days after an exclusive interview with Khaam Press Wardak said the Afghan and Taliban negotiating teams met on peace dialogues