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The Taliban Islamist militant group has conducted a wave of attacks in Afghanistan over the past several days, as the UN warns that the intensified military campaign threatens to reverse any progress on politics, security and the peace process in the war-torn country.  Afghan officials said the Taliban was capturing territory in northern ...

The Taliban have denied attacking five health workers who were gunned down at three separate locations on Tuesday. Four other workers were also wounded, with two of them in critical condition. But police spokesman Farid Khan said the Taliban were ‘'targeting health workers to deprive people of polio vaccines." The attack ...

Afghanistan will take part in separate US- and Russia-backed peace conferences in the coming weeks, Afghan officials said on Saturday. Russia's summit will take place on March 18. The US-sponsored one will take place in Turkey in April. The conferences come as the United States mulls whether to pull its troops ...

NATO made no decision on whether or when to pull out of Afghanistan, the military alliance's Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday. "We are faced with many dilemmas, and there are no easy options," Stoltenberg told journalists after talks between defense ministers in Brussels. "If we stay beyond May ...

DW: US President Donald Trump announced he would withdraw troops from Afghanistan and Iraq. In Afghanistan, the number of troops is supposed to shrink from 4,500 to 2,500 by January 15, 2021. What do you make of this decision? Dr. Marvin Weinbaum: It's a decision that was anticipated. The ...

A senior US defense official cited by Reuters Monday said Donald Trump's desire to get US troops "home by Christmas" had featured in a "flurry of calls" among NATO allies.  From Brussels, NATO spokewoman Oana Lungescu said the alliance's stance in conflict-ravaged Afghanistan "hasn't changed." NATO's mission Resolute Support comprises, according to its website, around 16,000 ...

Gunmen stormed Kabul University on Monday, killing 22 people and leaving a further 22 injured before security forces were able to shoot the attackers dead, according to the Afghan Interior Ministry. A spokesman for police in the Afghan capital told the AFP news agency that most of those killed were ...

At least 15 people were killed on Tuesday in a stampede near Pakistan's consulate in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, officials say. They said jostling had broken out among some 3,000 people waiting at a football stadium to collect tokens needed to apply for a visa. Eleven of those ...

Coming face-to-face with the enemy is still a rare occasion. In Doha, only a few leaders from the warring parties are still doggedly discussing the rules and procedures that will later apply to all delegates to the Afghan peace negotiations. But for female delegate Fatima Gailani, direct contact with ...