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More than a dozen diplomatic missions in Afghanistan have called for "an urgent end" to the Taliban's military offensives across the war-torn country, saying they are at odds with claims the militant group wants a negotiated settlement to end the conflict.
Representatives of the Afghan government and the Taliban have failed to make significant progress in the latest round of Doha talks but agreed to meet again.
The body of Reuters’ award-winning journalist Danish Siddiqui was transported to a hospital in Kandahar on July 17. (Radio Azadi)
As Taliban militants impose restrictions on newly seized territory, Radio Azadi journalists say freedom of expression must be preserved.
The Taliban has proposed a three-month cease-fire in exchange for the release of 7,000 of its fighters, an Afghan government negotiator said, as the militant group captured a key border crossing with Pakistan in a sweeping offensive ahead of the August 31 deadline for the pullout of U.S. forces.
The Taliban has released a female member of Khost Provincial Council after she and her children were abducted for a day.
Why are rural districts in northern Afghanistan that opposed the Taliban sweeping to power in the 1990s now falling like a house of cards to the hard-line Islamist movement?
Fighting between Afghan security forces and Taliban militants broke out in the southern city of Kandahar on July 9, leaving at least 18 people dead and more than 100 wounded. Government troops say the militants have seized homes in residential neighborhoods, forcing civilians to flee.
Kabul has requested that European countries halt the compulsory deportation of Afghan asylum seekers for the next three months due to increased Taliban violence and a rise in coronavirus infections in Afghanistan.
Deadly clashes between Afghan forces and the Taliban in and around the southern city of Kandahar have continued into a second day.
Russian and Taliban representatives have asserted that the fundamentalist group's fighters control a growing amount of territory in Afghanistan, including large stretches of the border, while insisting that Taliban gains don't threaten international security.
Russian and Taliban officials have asserted that the fundamentalist group's fighters control a growing amount of territory in Afghanistan, including large stretches of the border, while insisting that Taliban gains don't threaten international security.
Taliban militants say progress has been made in talks with a delegation of Afghan government representatives in Tehran on finding a political solution to the escalating violence in the war-torn country amid the withdrawal of U.S. troops.
The Taliban has captured Afghanistan’s main border crossing with Iran, according to an Afghan official, as the militants continue their offensive against government forces.
As the Taliban intensifies its attacks across Afghanistan, the fighting has taken a heavy toll on Kunduz Province in the north. Thousands of people have fled their homes and taken shelter at temporary camps, where food and medicine are in short supply.
The Taliban has launched its first assault on a provincial capital in Afghanistan since waging a major offensive against Afghan forces, as the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country nears completion.
A Taliban offensive in northern Afghanistan gained momentum over the weekend, sending hundreds of Afghan government troops fleeing into Tajikistan as the insurgency captured more districts and surrounded a provincial capital.
The White House says it expects the drawdown of U.S. forces from Afghanistan to be completed by the end of next month, after all American and NATO soldiers left the war-torn nation's biggest air base.
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