WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. special representative for Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, will meet with Chinese, Russian and European Union diplomats on Afghanistan on Thursday as he tries to forge a peace deal with the …
BEIJING (Reuters) – Authorities in China have arrested almost 13,000 “terrorists” in Xinjiang since 2014, the government said on Monday, in a policy paper defending its controversial de-radicalisation measures for Muslims in the restive …
Fifty-eight members of the Afghan Border Police, who crossed the border into Turkmenistan following heavy battles with Taliban militants, have returned home through the Torghundi Port in the western Herat province on Monday, the …
Kazakh Leader Nursultan Nazarbayev steps down as President of Kazakhstan President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has declared he resigns. “I have made the decision to terminate my presidential duties,” Nazarbayev said in his …
FollowFollow @RandPaul This week, I am introducing legislation to end a war that should have ended long ago, the war in Afghanistan. The United States has been fighting the War on Terror since October …
Qatari Foreign Minister says the only way to end the ongoing crisis in Afghanistan is diplomacy and political means. Qatar Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani has said that his country is coordinating …
THOMAS GIBBONS-NEFF AND JULIAN E. BARNES Jalil Rezayee/EPA, via Shutterstock WASHINGTON — All American troops would withdraw from Afghanistan over the next three to five years under a new Pentagon plan being offered in …
CAMP MAIWAND, Afghanistan — Limping as he climbed the stairs of a watchtower, the general turned his gaze south toward a once-sprawling base the Americans handed over to Afghan forces here in late 2014. …
On the third day of the talks between US negotiators and Taliban members in Doha, the two sides continued their discussions on foreign forces withdrawal and assurance to the US that Afghanistan’s territory will …
by Shereena Qazi 27/02/2019 Hanif Atmar held several government posts before launching his own party [Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera] Kabul, Afghanistan – Mohammad Hanif Atmar, Afghanistan’s powerful former national security adviser, will challenge President Ashraf Ghani for the …