A US watchdog has warned that “systemic” corruption within the Afghan government is undermining its bargaining position in upcoming peace negotiations with the Taliban. John Sopko,...
Although the time for the talks is unclear, government sources confirm that all sides have agreed on Qatar as the location for the first round of...
The Taliban technical delegations and the Afghan government are preparing a list of 2,000 other Taliban prisoners for release in Kabul. An inside government source said...
Both the Taliban team and the government are negotiating on how to verify and release the prisoners, as well as obtaining guarantees of not returning to...
Khalilzad is set to visit government officials and Taliban representatives to break the deadlock of Intra-Afghan negotiations. The US State Department reports that shortly after the...
Abdullah Abdullah endorsed Tuesday the delegation for intra-Afghan peace dialogue announced by President Ashraf Ghani aimed to negotiate with the Taliban representatives, noting that the team...
The Afghan presidential palace wants the Taliban to stop making excuses and introduce its negotiating envoy for the intra-Afghan peace dialogue. After the Taliban criticized the...
For the first time, the representatives of the Afghan government and the Taliban shared views via video conference on how to release the prisoners. The National...
The presidential palace says that the work of forming the delegation for intra-Afghan dialogue has been finished; officials say the delay was because some discussions and...
Some of the political movements and parties underlined that the government hasn’t talked with them regarding the negotiating team and that it was monopolizing the process....
Hillary Clinton, former US Secretary of State urges women participation in the Afghan peace negotiations. “There can be no sustainable peace without women’s participation and rights,”...
President Ashraf Ghani has signed a decree to release 1500 Taliban prisoners, a move to pave the way for the start of the intr-Afghan dialogue. Sediq...
Ashraf Ghani, during his swear-in ceremony, underlined that the members of the Afghan government’s delegation for the Intra-Afghan peace talks will be finalized by Tuesday. Based...
The U.S. government insists that the Taliban and the Afghan government should come to a conclusion about prisoner releases. Apparently, the U.S. is trying to convince...
Zalmay Khalilzad insisted that exchanging prisoners was a part of the US-Taliban deal, and Washington would try to remove every hurdle on the way to the...
The US president, Donald Trump made a phone call with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban’s deputy, Tuesday. Trump’s phone call with Baradar comes after the...
Since US-Taliban’s Doha agreement, American businessmen have become more interested to invest in Afghanistan. Officials of the Afghan-American Chamber of Commerce say that there are more...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that there were two credential elements in the US-Taliban agreement which will be presented to congress, adding that they...
A group consists of five countries has been formed to facilitate the intra-Afghan dialogue. The group is comprised of Germany, Norway, Uzbekistan, Qatar, and Indonesia. According...
The US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and the Taliban deputy leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar signed the peace deal in the presence of more than 30 countries’...