Senators Rand Paul and Tom Udall have introduced a bill to end the ruinously expensive conflict in Afghanistan, declaring ‘victory’ in the longest war in US history after 18 years, some $6 trillion and over 100,000 dead.

The United States is trying to prevent simmering tensions between India and Pakistan from impacting a third country, Afghanistan, where a fragile peace push is underway to try to end more than 17 years of war with Taliban insurgents.

Farshid Ghyasi writes that he sees the contract value a complete rip-off of the government’s treasury.

In an interview with Iranian Mehr News Agency, Taliban spokesman Zabihollah Mujahid said that the Afghan government does not have authority over the release of the Taliban prisoners and the United States should act in that regard.

Russian president's top envoy for Afghan settlement said 2019 will be "decisive" in the peace process.  

Save the Children, an aid charity organisation on Saturday noted in their report that Afghanistan is amongst the ten worst countries for children in conflict.

As peace deal with the Taliban seems an agreed only option by the global powers, after it clearly seemed to the United States that the Afghan war can’t be solved with bombs and guns, what this peace deal with the Taliban means to India and Pakistan, will be interesting to see.

When members of the Taliban’s Political Commission in Doha sat down with US peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad on January 21, talks were expected to last only a couple of days. Instead, the two sides talked for six days. By the end of the week, many Afghans hoped there might even be a ceasefire announcement.

If the war in Afghanistan has been anything, it has been a disappointment.

Kabul has blamed Pakistan for forwarding its agenda through the Taliban in the proposed peace talks as Washington rushes to withdraw troops from Afghanistan. Details emerging from the Pakistan-sponsored round of talks in Qatar, Doha between U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and Taliban have evidently upset the fragile government in Kabul.

Three months after 9/11, two months after U.S. President George W. Bush ordered bombs to begin raining on Kabul, the day The Village Voice published one of my war reports from the front in Afghanistan: “We’ve lost this war,” I wrote. To drive my point home, the headline was: “How We Lost Afghanistan.”

Such a deal would need to be agreed to before U.S. troops leave the country

Encouraging comments from the U.S. envoy to Afghanistan on "significant progress" in talks with the Taliban heightened hopes for peace, but the envoy and experts on the region warned that major obstacles remain.

The longest, deadliest, and costliest war in the American history might be coming to an end as the Taliban and the US negotiators appear to be .

Sources familiar with the Doha talks said that on the fifth day of the US-Taliban discussions in Qatar on Friday, US officials agreed to a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The deal to try to stop militant groups using the country to mount attacks abroad is a major concession to the U.S.

Never in Afghanistan’s difficult history has it experienced such hectic diplomacy in seeking a resolution to an internal conflict, one whose roots go back to that fateful evening in December 1979 when Soviet troops invaded. 

Russia has opposed the United States’ policy in Afghanistan for years. 

Ex-president Hamid Karzai believes the Trump administration would not withdraw its troops from Afghanistan The United States sought access to military bases in Afghanistan for strategic purposes, Karzai said in an interview with India Today.

A high-ranking Afghan delegation will visit Pakistan today (January 8) to hold talks with the Pakistani counterparts on the prospects of peace with the Afghan Taliban. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s Special Envoy for Regional Affairs on Consensus around peace and head of the High Peace Council’s Secretariat, Umer Daudzai, will be leading the delegation ...