(VOVWORLD) - The Taliban have captured Afghanistan's second and third biggest cities, fuelling fears the US-backed government could fall to the insurgents as international forces complete their withdrawal after 20 years of war...
(VOVWORLD) - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Tuesday urged the Taliban to halt their military operations in Afghan cities
(VOVWORLD) - Taliban fighters overran three provincial capitals including the strategic northeastern city of Kunduz on Sunday, local officials said, as the insurgents intensified pressure on the north and threatened other...
(VOVWORLD) - The United States is urging Americans in Afghanistan to leave the country immediately, saying the ability of the US embassy in Kabul to help them is "extremely limited" due...
(VOVWORLD) - The United Nations is deeply concerned about the safety and protection of tens of thousands of civilians in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Afghanistan's Helmand province, as they can...
(VOVWORLD) - The UN Security Council is not considering a peacekeeping force in Afghanistan although the situation in that country is a matter of grave concern, said T.S. Tirumurti, the Indian...
(VOVWORLD) - The US Embassy in Kabul has accused the Taliban of committing war crimes after a report from an Afghan watchdog concluded that the insurgent group violated international law by...
(VOVWORLD) - NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said he spoke to Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani to reassure him that NATO will continue to support Afghanistan
(VOVWORLD) - The United States will to continue to carry out airstrikes to support Afghan forces facing attack from the insurgent Taliban, a regional US commander said on Sunday as US...
(VOVWORLD) - With the last US forces on the way out of Afghanistan, US President Joe Biden on Friday assured President Ashraf Ghani of US diplomatic and humanitarian support as Taliban...
(VOVWORLD) - Taliban insurgents control about half of Afghanistan's district centers, said General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
(VOVWORLD) - The Afghan government and the Taliban will continue to negotiate until they reach an agreement, according to a joint statement reported by Al Jazeera TV on Sunday
(VOVWORLD) - Pakistan on Saturday partially reopened its southern crossing with Afghanistan, shut off since the Taliban seized control of the strategic border town on the other side
(VOVWORLD) - Taliban forces have stepped up attacks to retake control of many parts of Afghanistan. The resurgence of the Taliban has strengthened as the US-led coalition forces withdraw
(VOVWORLD) - US President Joe Biden said Thursday the US military mission in Afghanistan will end by August 31, and called on Afghanistan’s leaders to “come together” to prevent civil...
(VOVWORLD) -President Joe Biden on Thursday strongly defended his decision to pull US military forces out of Afghanistan, saying the Afghan people must decide their own future, rather than sacrificing...
(VOVWORLD) - The Afghan military killed 143 militants of the radical Taliban movement and wounded 121 during operations in several Afghan provinces in the last 24 hours, the Afghan Defense Ministry...
(VOVWORLD) - American troops pulled out of their main military base in Afghanistan on Friday
(VOVWORLD) - At least 15 people were killed and 20 wounded when a suicide bomber detonated a hijacked military vehicle at the front gate of a police station in Balkh province, Afghanistan...
(VOVWORLD) - Taliban and Afghan government negotiators met in Doha, Qatar, on Friday after a long pause in peace talks between the two