Afghanistan - Page 2

It is the Afghan people, of course, who have paid the highest price for America’s failed ambitions.

"It's time to end America's longest war," President Joe Biden said as he announced the withdrawal of all US troops from Afghanistan later this year.

Biden had previously warned it would be "tough" to meet the deadline, citing the delay in the presidential transition process after the 2020 election.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday that the military alliance will only leave Afghanistan when security conditions allow, as a deadline for withdrawing troops set out in a peace deal with the Taliban nears.

The Taliban are advancing while peace talks stall. What are the chances for peace once the last of US-led Nato forces leave? Lyse Doucet looks at a critical time for Afghanistan.

Gunmen attacked a hospital in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Tuesday where the international humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders, also known by its French acronym MSF, runs a maternity clinic, officials said.

Despite bullying and threats from Trump, the ICC will investigate war crimes including cruelty, sexual violence and torture by US and Afghan soldiers and intelligence services during the nearly 20-year-long conflict.

The US military has conducted an air strike against Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, just hours after President Donald Trump said he had had a "very good talk" with a leader of the group.

6 civilians among the dead in 33 attacks in the past day, Afghan's interior ministry says

The US has begun withdrawing troops from Afghanistan after signing a peace deal with the Taliban, America’s enemy in its longest-ever war.

Peace deal signed in Qatari capital, Doha, will pave the way for the complete withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan.

The Taliban has taken over another district in Afghanistan, the second in two weeks, saying that the US will “regret” abandoning key peace talks that stalled after Donald Trump called off a much-awaited meeting with the group.

Gunmen attacked the Afghan ministry of information in the centre of the capital Kabul, officials said.

A suicide bomb attack on a gathering of religious scholars in the Afghan capital, Kabul, has killed at least 43 people, officials say.

At least 39 fighters and 14 soldiers killed in clashes after armed group entered strategic city near Kabul overnight.

Elsewhere in Afghanistan, Taliban attacks that began Monday in Ghazni province have continued

Insurgents attacked an Afghan army unit guarding a military academy in the capital Kabul on Monday, and at least two soldiers were killed and 10 others wounded, officials said. Time

The new US strategy in Afghanistan has no chance for success, as it mainly relies on the use of force, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

An all-girl team of roboticists from Afghanistan will watch their creations compete in a US competition via Skype after being denied entry visas.

The U.S. has more than 8,000 US troops in Afghanistan, training local forces and conducting counterterrorism operations.