Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, chairman of the reconciliation council, said in a statement on Saturday that the decision was against what was agreed in a power share deal reached with Afghan President on May last year.
"The decision in the current situation was against national interests and was unacceptable," according to the statement.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Friday dismissed Mohammad Massoud Andarabi from his post...
In a statement released Friday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) said that the two sides discussed the outcomes of the Afghan peace summit in the Russian capital of Moscow, where envoys from the U.S., Russia, China and Pakistan as well as an Afghan delegation and a 10-member Taliban delegation attended. They also exchanged views on the expected outcomes of the upcoming Istanbul...
On Friday, Afghanistan won the toss and opted to bat first in the second match of T20I match against Zimbabwe.
The match was held in Shaikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi, with the Afghan cricket team posting 193 for Zimbabwe.
Karim Janat made 53 runs followed by Osman Ghani 49, Mohammad Nabi 40, Asghar Afghan 14, Rashid Kahn and Rahmanullah Gurbaz each nine.
Karim Janat became man...
At least four flight crew and five security personnel were killed on Wednesday night after a military helicopter belonging to Afghan Air Forces (AAF) crashed in Behsood district of Maidan Wardak province.
Shah Mahmoud Miakhel, first deputy defense minister, said Friday at the funeral of the four security personnel that perpetrators will be held to account.
General Mohammad Yasin Zia, Chief of Army Staff, said...
At separate decrees, President Ashraf Ghani has appointed Hayatullah Hayat as acting interior minister replacing Mohammad Massoud Andarabi and Ayoub Salangi as the ministry’s first deputy.
The new replacements were announced to bring reforms, improve the security situation in the country, protect civilians and to better implement the self-sufficiency plan.
Under another decree, the President has made a replacement to the post of defense minister....
The Afghan intelligence agency known as the National Directorate of Security (NDS) said in a statement on Friday that these members of the Islamic State have been arrested during an operation by its Special Forces.
They were in charge of recruitments for the group and had been assigning its members to other provinces for recruiting, according to the statement.
The arrested people had also been...
The Taliban group has carried out about 92 suicide attacks, more than 2,000 bomb attacks and more than 500 targeted attacks within the last one year, said Hamid Rushan, the deputy spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Interior.
About 2,000 civilians have been killed and more than 4,000 wounded in those attacks, he said.
The spokesman added that more than 3,000 landmines and 12,000 kilograms...
An Afghan delegation led by Abdullah Abdullah, who chairs the High Council for National Reconciliation (HCNR) emphasized in the gathering that no group can impose its wills through war and force. The Taliban, on the other hand, reiterate that it will fight against any system except an Islamic one.
Speaking at the summit, Afghan top peace broker Abdullah Abdullah said that war was not...
According to a statement released Thursday by the Afghan Ministry of Defense, a military helicopter belonging to Afghan Air Forces (AAF) crashed in Behsood district of Maidan Wardak province last night.
Four flight crew and five security personnel were killed in the clash.
An investigation into the incident was underway, the statement read.
The ministry said in another statement that a dozen Taliban fighters were killed...
The summit will bring together representatives of Russia, the United States, China and Pakistan, as well as an Afghan government delegation and representatives of the Taliban.
According to a statement released by the High Council for National Reconciliation, the Afghan delegation led by Abdullah Abdullah, chairperson of the council who oversees the government peace talks with the Taliban on Wednesday evening arrived in the...
