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ISLAMABAD - The United States said Monday its special envoy to Afghanistan has completed a “productive” four-day visit to the war-torn nation, where he discussed preparations for the upcoming Afghan peace conference hosted by Turkey. A U.S. Embassy statement in Kabul said Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad met with Afghan government ...

U.S. President Joe Biden admitted Thursday that some 2,500 U.S. troops could still be in Afghanistan after May 1, the agreed upon deadline for American forces to leave the country under a year-old deal with the Taliban.  "It's going to be hard to meet the May 1 deadline," Biden ...

ISLAMABAD - U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Sunday made his first visit to Afghanistan since taking up his post, as Washington considers whether to comply with a May 1 deadline for pulling out all troops from the country under a year-old deal it signed with the Taliban. Austin ...

ISLAMABAD - The United States, Russia, China, and Pakistan have called on all parties in Afghanistan to reduce violence and the Taliban to forego their Spring offensive, the yearly renewal in attacks after a winter lull, in order to facilitate peace negotiations. The demand was part of a joint statement ...

ISLAMABAD - The United States says no decision has been made about its military commitment to Afghanistan after May 1, a deadline for the remaining 2,500 U.S. troops to withdraw from the country in line with a year-old peace pact with the Taliban insurgency. The comments came in response ...

ISLAMABAD - U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad met Monday with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah, head of Afghanistan’s peace council, to discuss steps for accelerating a process that could end decades of war in the country.   “We discussed the peace process, talks in Doha, ...

ISLAMABAD - The United States Embassy in Pakistan drew strong backlash Wednesday for retweeting a political statement critical of the host government, prompting the diplomatic mission to apologize for what it said was an "unauthorized post." The controversy stemmed from comments on Tuesday tweeted by an opposition lawmaker, Ahsan ...

ISLAMABAD - The United States said Monday it had conducted an airstrike in central Afghanistan, killing at least five Taliban insurgents. A military spokesman explained in a tweet the overnight action in Nerkh district in Wardak province was taken to defend Afghan security forces in line with a February deal ...

ISLAMABAD - The United States has lost $19 billion in Afghanistan since 2002 due to “waste, fraud and abuse,” the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) said in a new report released Tuesday. SIGAR monitors all U.S. spending in the 19-year war in Afghanistan, America’s longest. The American ...

ISLAMABAD - The United States has warned that “distressingly” high levels of violence in Afghanistan threaten to derail Washington’s peace-building deal with Taliban insurgents and the ongoing intra-Afghan peace negotiations. Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. special envoy to the turmoil-hit nation, issued the warning Monday as the Taliban intensified battlefield attacks ...