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NEW YORK - An Afghan man pleaded not guilty on Monday in Manhattan federal court to six counts related to the 2008 kidnapping of a U.S. journalist and two Afghan nationals in Afghanistan. Haji Najibullah faces charges including kidnapping, hostage taking, conspiracy, and using a machine gun to further ...

ISLAMABAD - Top government officials in Afghanistan are downplaying reports the United States may be planning to withdraw U.S. troops, saying local forces are independently conducting almost all security operations across the country and rely only on a small aerial support from foreign partners. U.S. media reports say President ...

ISLAMABAD - Officials in Afghanistan said Wednesday two military helicopters collided and crashed in the embattled southern Helmand province, killing at least nine people aboard. Separately, Taliban insurgents raided security outposts in other provinces and killed more than a dozen government forces.   Provincial authorities in Helmand said two Russian-made ...

ISLAMABAD - The Taliban says U.S. President Donald Trump's intention to withdraw all American troops from Afghanistan before the end of the year will bode well for the peace deal between the two adversaries. Trump suggested on Twitter late Wednesday a withdrawal timeline as early as Christmas, a deadline ...

ISLAMABAD - Officials in Afghanistan say a suicide bomber Saturday detonated an explosives-laden mini truck in the country’s eastern Nangarhar province, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens more. The war-ravaged country has witnessed an escalation of violence in recent weeks, even as representatives of the Afghan government and ...

ISLAMABAD - Afghanistan’s senior leadership has told its team in Doha to be flexible in negotiating with the Taliban in order to seize the opportunity to end the country’s conflict, according to Abdullah Abdullah, the chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation.    “We’ve asked our own delegation, President ...

ISLAMABAD - Even as Afghan President Ashraf Ghani reiterated his demand for a cease-fire, few watching the peace talks in Doha expected a positive response from the Taliban.   "he Afghan people have a clear and urgent priority: a cease-fire. An urgent end to the violence will more than anything ...

ISLAMABAD - Human rights groups have hailed the enactment of a new law in Afghanistan that will, for the first time, include mothers' names on their children's birth certificates and identification cards.  Afghan President Ashraf Ghani signed the reform into law Thursday. It is being lauded as a "major ...

ISLAMABAD - Warring sides in Afghanistan have accused each other of staging fresh battlefield attacks as their representatives held a second day of historic, U.S.-brokered peace talks Sunday away from home in Qatar.   Clashes between Afghan security forces and Taliban insurgents during the past 24 hours reportedly killed scores ...

ISLAMABAD - The United States pressed Afghanistan’s warring factions Saturday to approach their first-ever direct peace talks with an intent to strike a power-sharing deal that would accommodate “competing views” and permanently end decades of bloodshed in the country. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made the remarks at a ...