Geopolitics

In UN address, Afghan leader lays out vision of peaceful, prosperous State in talks with Taliban

New York, Saying his country had turned a page with its unprecedented overtures to the militant Taliban opposition, Afghan’s Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah on Wednesday called on the United Nations, the European Union and State partners to help promote a new Afghanistan in a country that has known nothing but conflict over the past four decades, with hundreds of thousands of casualties. more

Afghanistan: Sunday airstrike killed 12 women and children from one family, UN mission reports

New York, Preliminary findings from the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) released on Tuesday, indicate that 12 women and children from a single family were killed in an ...

‘Time for important decisions,’ head of UN in Afghanistan tells Security Council

New York, With parliamentary elections one month away and a major ministerial conference planned for November in Geneva, the United Nation’s Special Representative for Afghanistan b ...

James Mattis visits Afghanistan, meets President Ashraf Ghani

Kabul: United States Secretary of Defense, James Mattis, on Friday visited Afghanistan and met country's president Ashraf Ghani.

Foreign Minister of Afghanistan Salahuddin Rabbani calls Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi

Islamabad: Foreign Minister of Afghanistan Salahuddin Rabbani called Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Monday, and congratulated him on his appointment as the ...

Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic visits Afghanistan, meets Ashraf Ghani

Kabul: Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani met his Croatian counterpart Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic as she visited the South Asian nation on Sunday.

Afghanistan remembers 'great friend' US Senator John McCain

Kabul: Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani on Monday condoled the death of US Senator John McCain and called him a 'great friend' of his nation.

UN mission welcomes Afghan government’s announcement of Eid holiday ceasefire

New York, After a surge in hostilities in Afghanistan over the past weeks, the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) welcomed on Monday the Government’s announcement of a con ...

‘No safe way’ into battle-scarred Afghan city of Ghazni to deliver aid as traumatized children search for parents

New York, The city of Ghazni in Afghanistan is still too dangerous for aid workers to reach, after a week of “intense” fighting and reports that traumatized children are turni ...

Afghanistan: UN chief calls for 'urgent' ceasefire and opening of peace talks

New York, After days of intense fighting for the Afghan city of Ghazni, south-west of Kabul, the United Nations Secretary-General and the Head of the UN mission in the country (UNAM ...