Afghan tribal elders and religious leaders agreed on Friday to make peace with the Taliban, handing President Hamid Karzai a mandate to open negotiations with the insurgents who are fighting foreign f

Afghan tribal elders discussed ways to reach out to the Taliban on Thursday, despite a rocket and gunfire attack by the insurgents aimed at disrupting a national conference seeking an end to nearly ni

Taliban suicide attackers launched an assault on a national peace conference as it opened on Wednesday in the Afghan capital, sparking gunbattles outside the venue.

US helicopters flew Afghan troops into a remote district overrun by the Taliban and recaptured the main town on Tuesday without firing a shot, military officials said.

Hundreds of community, political and religious leaders from across Afghanistan were arriving in Kabul on Monday for a crucial assembly, or “peace jirga” that could set the agenda for ending years of w

The Afghanistan government has suspended the activities of two Western aid groups on suspicion of proselytising, an official said on Monday.

At the bottom of a hill on the outskirts of the Afghan capital, billboards display pictures of past Afghan rulers with captions extolling how they resolved critical national issues at various times by

The US military acknowledged on Saturday killing 23 civilians and wounding 12 others earlier this year after mistaking them for a convoy of Taliban insurgents. The US report into the incident, which happened in Uruzgan, said the crew of a remote-controlled drone aircraft had “provided inaccurate reporting” ahead of the incident and local command posts “failed to properly analyse the situation”.

Seven suspected Afghan terrorists responsible for the Indian embassy bombing and several other attacks in Kabul have been arrested, the Afghan intelligence agency said on Monday, pointing out their li

A bomb ripped through a minibus in western Afghanistan on Monday, killing five civilians and wounding another eight, some critically, the interior ministry said.