President Ashraf Ghani in a pre-recorded message to the nation on Friday said that remobilization of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) is his top priority and that required measures are underway to reach this end, but he vowed to prevent further bloodshed in the country.
A series of photos published last month by Chinese state media of Foreign Minister Wang Yi standing shoulder to shoulder with visiting Taliban official decked out in traditional tunic and turban raised eyebrows on the country’s social media.
Taliban insurgents tightened their grip on Afghanistan on Friday, wresting control of its second and third biggest cities while Western embassies prepared to send in troops to help evacuate staff from the capital, Kabul.
The Taliban are an hardline Islamist movement in Afghanistan that has been fighting an insurgency against the Western-backed government in Kabul since being ousted from power in 2001.
The multilateral meeting on the peace process in Afghanistan convened Tuesday in Qatar’s capital of Doha
Laghman has long been contested, with a strong Taleban presence in some rural areas, held at bay by government forces based in district centres.
To pressure the Taliban to tolerate the Turkish presence, Ankara will likely tap Pakistan
The Minister noted that Taliban attacks were carried out in direct collusion with more than 10,000 regional terrorists from organisations like the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Ansarullah, Jundallah, and othrs
Moscow fears that deteriorating security situation in Afganistan could destabilise its southern defensive flank and push refugees into its Central Asian backyard.
More women and children were killed and wounded in Afghanistan in the first half of 2021 than in the first six months of any year since records began in 2009, a United Nations report has revealed.