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The main faction of the Afghan Taliban led by Mullah Akhtar Mansoor may return to the negotiating table with Afghan government representatives despite escalating violence in Kabul which has dented peace efforts. The Taliban expressed their willingness to resume the fledgling peace process following recent talks between the group’s interlocutors …

An Australian woman has reportedly been kidnapped by armed men in Afghanistan. The aid worker was taken from her office by the men in the early hours of the morning in the eastern city of Jalalabad, in the capital of the Nangarhar province, Attaullah Khogyanai, spokesman of the state’s governor …

Afghanistan plans to take Pakistan to the UN security council over its continuing support to the Taliban, which Kabul says is destabilizing their country. Hekmat Khalil Karzai, deputy foreign minister told TOI in an exclusive chat, that after the deadly Taliban attack in Kabul last week, the Ghani government is …

The level of terrorism in Afghanistan has increased since the US invasion in the country, former Afghan President Hamid Karzai told the broadcaster RT in an interview published Wednesday. MOSCOW — Karzai is in Russia to participate in the two-day annual Moscow Conference on International Security (MCIS). The agenda of …

Norway is offering its asylum seekers a £840 “bonus” if they agree to leave the country voluntarily. The Norwegain Directorate of Immigration (UDI) said the measure had been brought in as a cheaper alternative to paying for refugees to stay in immigration centres in the country. Launched on Monday, the …

In a latest push to resurrect the fledgling Afghan peace process, Pakistan has warned the Taliban to call off their ‘spring offensive’ or face the consequences, officials familiar with the development said on Sunday. Last week the Taliban announced the start of large-scale attacks against the government strongholds. Named after …

At least eight people were injured as a violent fight between Syrian and Afghan refugees broke out at Piraeus Port on Wednesday night, the Hellenic Coast Guard says. More than 5,000 migrants and refugees are stranded at Greece’s biggest port waiting to be transferred to accommodation centers. The bad living …

Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani has taken a tough and somewhat unexpectedly blunt stance on the tens of thousands of his citizens who are fleeing the country to make the dangerous journey to Europe. “I have no sympathy,” the Afghan leader told me in his palace in Kabul. He is calling …

At least 15 people travelling on a bus have been killed by a bomb in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, officials say. The vehicle was carrying government employees from nearby areas to the city. An improvised device apparently inside the bus caused the blast, police say. There has been …

PENTAGON— The Taliban is fracturing in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, a known Taliban stronghold, a U.S. general in Kabul said Thursday. General Wilson Shoffner told reporters via telephone that the U.S. is seeing an “emergence of three separate Taliban groups” in northern Helmand, and that all three factions are largely not loyal …