People in the United States continue to pretend that the despair and futility we’ve caused isn’t our fault. Late last week, I learned from young Afghan Peace Volunteer friends in Kabul that an insurgent group firing rockets into the city center hit the home of one volunteer’s relatives. Everyone inside was killed. Today, word arrived of two bomb blasts in […]

At least 17 people, including six policemen, were wounded Wednesday morning in Kandahar province in a car bomb, local officials said.

Taliban insurgents have abducted at least 28 civilians in Maidan Wardak province, police claimed.

Nangarhar provincial officials said security forces have arrested 20 customs officers in Torkham on charges of corruption. Attaullah Khoqyani, a spokesman for the Nangarhar governor, confirmed the arrests and said money had been seized during the arrests.

As Afghanistan’s immediate neighbours shut their doors, many refugees embark on the treacherous journey to Europe. But few find a welcome there. Every Sunday, Hamdi Mohseni, his wife Serda, and their five remaining children, walk the 15km from their apartment to the paupers’ cemetery where their daughter Zahra is buried. Mohseni brings a ballpoint pen with him to trace the […]

President Ashraf Ghani who addressed the opening ceremony of the Afghanistan 2020 Conference in Geneva on Tuesday called on the Taliban to agree on an immediate ceasefire to move the peace process forward and end the suffering of the people of the country.

Turkey pledged to provide $75 million in aid to Afghanistan over the next two years at the 2020 Afghanistan Conference in Geneva, the Turkish Foreign Ministry announced Tuesday.

First Vice President Amrullah Saleh said security forces had arrested nine militants in the past three hours who were involved in various crimes. First Vice President Amrullah Saleh wrote on his Facebook page, that in series of Special operations nine militants were arrests, including Islamic State-Taliban members, in the past 24 hours.

At least 17 people were killed and over 50 more were wounded in two explosions in the city of Bamiyan on Tuesday afternoon, sources said. Local officials said the explosions happened in a local market in the city of Bamiyan, the center of Bamiyan province.

In 2013, the Australian government paid a PR company AUD 277,000 ($203,000) of taxpayer money to buy up advertising spots on TV, radio and print publications in Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan. A portion of the funds also went to distributing 20,000 notebooks with Australian government advertisements on the front and back covers to Afghan secondary school and university students.