FAIZABAD (SW) – In the wake of mounting Taliban assaults, at least 1000 security forces from Badhakhshan province of Afghanistan retreated back towards neighboring Tajikistan, sources told Salam Watandar.
KABUL (SW) – The US Embassy in Kabul clarified it was to stay in Afghanistan and have a robust diplomatic presence in Kabul to carry out the range of work it do with the government and people of Afghanistan.
KABUL (SW) – Afghanistan has welcomed delisting of the Afghan National Police from the UN Secretary-General’s (SG)’s list on children and armed conflict (CAAC) for recruitment and use of child soldiers.
MAIMANA (SW) – Telecommunication services have been cut off in Andkhoy and surrounding restive districts of Faryab province, said officials.
MONITORING (SW) – U.S. officials have intensified planning for an emergency evacuation of the American embassy in Kabul amid concern that a worsening security situation in Afghanistan could imperil the remaining military and diplomatic corps, as well as other Americans.
KABUL (SW) – A number of leading rights organizations have called for accountability in Afghan civilian deaths.
MONITORING (SW) – American troops pulled out of their main military base in Afghanistan on Friday, a U.S. defence official said, under an agreement with the Taliban allowing for the withdrawal of all U.S. forces from the country after a two-decade war.
KABUL (SW) – The National Security Adviser has left for Moscow on a two-day official trip amid surging Taliban assaults across the war-ravaged country.
KABUL (SW) – The US Embassy in Afghanistan has said in a statement that over the last 12 years of war, over 38,000 Afghan civilians have been killed and over 70,000 have been injured.
KABUL (SW) – Abdullah Abdullah, chairman High Council for National Reconciliation, on Wednesday charged the Taliban for killing time and playing with the fate of the nation.
MONITORING (SW) – The German military late on Tuesday concluded its withdrawal from Afghanistan after almost two decades, finishing Germany’s deadliest military mission since World War 2.
KABUL (SW) – Members of the local uprising forces against the Taliban would function under the army, said an official on Tuesday.
