
Biden administration to review Taliban peace deal
The new US President Joe Biden wants to review a peace deal his predecessor Donald Trump signed with Taliban insurgents last February.
The new US President Joe Biden wants to review a peace deal his predecessor Donald Trump signed with Taliban insurgents last February.
The Afghan security forces have rescued 27 people from a Taliban prison in southern Helmand province, the Defense Ministry (MoD) said Thursday.
U.S president Joe Biden signed 15 executive orders, he addressed coronavirus pandemic, climate change, reversed Muslim immigration bans, he also addressed racial inequality.
At the head of high-level delegation, President Ashraf Ghani on Thursday travelled to western Herat province to meet residents and evaluate overall situation in the province, an official said.
Foreign Minister Mohammad Haneef Atmar arrived in Jeddah on a three-day visit to Saudi Arabia, yesterday.
Meshrano Jirga (Upper House of Parliament) members on Tuesday called on US President-elect Joe Biden to reconsider US policies on Afghanistan that were mostly instituted during outgoing President Donald Trump’s tenure.
US law enforcement is investigating whether a woman took a laptop computer or hard drive from US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office during the January 6 siege of the Capitol and tried to sell the device to Russian intelligence, Reuters reported.
A least 8 civilians, including one journalist, were wounded in a motorbike explosion in Tarinkot city, capital of Uruzgan province on Tuesday afternoon, local officials confirmed.
First Vice President Amrullah Saleh said on Tuesday that various elections will be held across the country in summer, including the long overdue Ghazni parliamentary elections as well as provincial council, district council and municipal elections.
Abdullah Naji Nazari, a member of the Badakhshan Provincial Council, said Tuesday the Taliban attacked a checkpoint in Pul-e-Soch in Badakhshan’s Jurm district at midnight on Monday.