Mary Jan Mohammadi / Peace is a dream that Afghan citizens have made many sacrifices to achieve for years, but they have not achieved it yet. Although with the beginning of the peace process in Afghanistan, many internal, regional and global talks and meetings were held regarding peace and stability in this country, but with the intervention of major ...

As violence continues to grip Helmand province and reports continuously emerge of other clashes breaking out around the country, Afghan peace negotiator Nader Nadery said from Doha that if the bloodshed continues, Afghanistan might have to reassess whether “talking” whilst “fighting” is viable or not.

A planned $1 billion cut in U.S. aid to Afghanistan would come from funds for Afghan security forces, according to three U.S. sources, a step experts said would undercut both Kabul’s ability to fight the Taliban and its leverage to negotiate a peace deal with them. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the reduction on March 23 and threatened to ...

Militants in Afghanistan have intensified their activities while efforts are under way to bring the Taliban and the Afghan government into negotiating table as over four dozen people have been killed across the country over the past 24 hours, officials confirmed Sunday.

Government announces 21-member committee that would hold direct peace talks with Taliban

 President Mohamad Ashraf Ghani met on Monday evening with the administrative board and committee heads of the Lower House of the Parliament at the Presidential Palace to continue his series of consultative meetings on peace with various classes and strata of the society, a statement from the presidential press office said.

Qatar’s special envoy to Afghanistan, who arrived in Kabul Sunday to discuss Afghanistan’s peace process, says several key countries and organizations involved in the Afghan peace process have been invited to attend the signing ceremony of a US-Taliban peace deal in Doha.

Afghans fear that Tuesday’s disputed election results might throw the country back into turmoil, even after peace talks between the US and the Taliban reached a breakthrough this week.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke by phone on Tuesday with Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani over the progress made in the ongoing peace talks with the Taliban, the President’s office said in a statement.

With a $14 billion dollar budget request for fiscal year 2021, the U.S. military is set to spend its lowest amount on the 18-year long war in Afghanistan in nearly a decade.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has demanded "demonstrable evidence" from the Taliban that it will lower the violence level in Afghanistan before signing a deal that would lead to peace talks and a withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has received top US and NATO representatives in Kabul and was briefed about the ongoing peace negotiations with the Taliban, presidential spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said on Sunday.

Political leaders and heads of political bodies, including Abdullah Abdullah and Hamid Karzai, had a consultative meeting Saturday in Kabul in order to create a new policy for the peace negotiations. CE Abdullah warned that no one can cease the peace talks for personal benefits. They considered ‘violence reduction’ as a feasible option to proceed with ...

Nearly half of all Afghans want U.S. and NATO troops to leave Afghanistan once a peace deal to end the country’s 18-year war is signed with the Taliban, according to a survey released Thursday.

Taliban's reduction of violence 'would facilitate meaningful negotiations on Afghanistan’s future,' says US president

The Taliban militant group has carried out a bomb attack against an American convoy in Afghanistan’s northern Kunduz Province, killing a US soldier, only weeks after the two sides restarted stalled peace negotiations.

 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in a meeting in Kabul reviewed peace talks among Afghan groups in the war-torn country.

The latest survey conducted by the Asia Foundation reveals that a staggering 88.5% of Afghan population welcomes peace talks between the United States (US) and Taliban.

Thorny issue of cease-fire set to dominate renewed talks for proposed peace deal in conflict-torn Afghanistan

The representatives of political parties, rights groups, political elites, and former Taliban figures have come together in Kabul to discuss peace in Afghanistan.