Taliban

Ghani met US special envoy to Afghanistan in Kabul to discuss ways to accelerate peace negotiations with the Taliban.

Doctor dies after bomb attached to rickshaw explodes while at least seven civilians shot and killed by group of gunmen.

Coordinated killings of three women in Jalalabad latest in a bloody campaign against journalists in Afghanistan.

Zalmay Khalilzad’s mission comes a year after US and Taliban signed an accord aimed at ending Washington’s longest war.

Donald Trump in a deal with the Taliban promised to withdraw US troops by May if conditions were met.

Taliban accuses Afghan government and the US of not honouring the agreement signed last year.

US-brokered negotiations began in September but progress has since slowed and violence has risen sharply.

Talks between the Taliban and the Afghan gov’t resume in Doha after weeks of delays and change in US leadership.

It was not immediately clear what caused the blasts but a majority of attacks in recent months have been sticky bombs.

Letter published a day before a meeting between NATO ministers to discuss troops’ presence in Afghanistan.

The Taliban must do more to meet the terms of a 2020 peace deal with the US before withdrawal, says NATO chief.

A string of near-daily attacks in recent weeks has killed government officials, judges, journalists and activists.

String of attacks kills four government employees and four policemen amid relentless violence in the war-torn country.

Fearing government will collapse and country may descend again into civil war, Hazaras start to prepare for the worst.