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Afghanistan's neighbours fear refugee crisis if US pulls out
A White House spokesman last week said US President Donald Trump had not issued orders to the Pentagon to withdraw troops from Afghanistan.
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Suicide bomber kills 6 near police checkpoint in Afghan capital
Ten policemen and civilians, including women, were injured in the blast.
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Fears of ethnic violence as Afghan Taliban target Hazara district
The flare-up in fighting in Afghanistan's restive southeast comes as the resurgent Taliban ratchet up attacks against Afghan security forces, which are suffering record-high casualties.
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Russia to host talks with Afghan leaders, Taliban delegation
Russia in August proposed holding multilateral peace talks in Moscow and invited 12 countries and the Taliban to attend a summit.
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Afghans vote amid chaos, corruption and Taliban threats
Taliban militants have issued a series of statements telling people not to take part in what they consider a foreign-imposed process and warning election centres may be attacked.
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Death toll in Tuesday suicide attack soars to 68: Afghan officials
Another 165 were wounded in the blast, one of the deadliest attacks this year, on Tuesday in the eastern province of Nangarhar, provincial governor spokesman Ataullah Khogyani said.
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Afghanistan says surrendered Islamic State fighters are war prisoners
Last week, an Afghan governor’s office floated the possibility of amnesty for a group of Islamic State fighters who gave themselves up after being driven from their strongholds by Taliban insurgents.
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15 killed as gunmen attack Afghan government building
Islamic State increasingly claims attacks on civilian targets even as pressure builds for peace talks between the Western-backed government and the Taliban.
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'Very positive signals' after US, Taliban talks: sources
The two sides had discussed proposals to allow the Taliban free movement in two provinces where they would not be attacked, an idea that President Ashraf Ghani has already rejected.
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Civilians killed in Afghanistan air strike: officials
The civilian deaths add to a total that reached record levels in the first half of the year, according to a United Nations report this week that noted a sharp jump in casualties from air strikes.
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After Trump's spending demands, Nato summit turns to Afghanistan
Trump, in a late-night post on Twitter, wrote: “Billions of additional dollars are being spent by Nato countries since my visit last year, at my request, but it isn’t nearly enough.
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After Afghan ceasefire gamble, prospects rise for US-Taliban talks
The Taliban insist that any negotiations with what it calls the 'puppet' Afghan government on a peace plan can begin only after talks with the United States about withdrawing foreign forces.
