Kabul Conference

Taliban's spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid, who appeared before the media for the first time in a decade at a press conference said that he lived in the Afghan capital right under the nose of his adversaries who considered him a "ghost-like" figure.

The United States and Western allies evacuated diplomats and civilians from Kabul on Tuesday as Kabul's new rulers hold their first news conference after the Islamist movement ousted the Western-backed government in just days.

A Taliban delegation on Friday attended a diplomatic conference in Russia for the first time, in a move that underscored Moscow's keenness to play a role in the Afghan peace process, but the Kabul government sent no official representative.

A rocket propelled grenade exploded inside India House, Indian Ambassador Manpreet Vohra's residential compound in Kabul this afternoon. Top sources confirmed there were no injuries after it exploded on the tennis court of the residential compound.

The death toll from a devastating truck bomb in Kabul's diplomatic quarter last week has jumped to more than 150, President Ashraf Ghani told an international peace conference in the capital on Tuesday.

Pakistan's army chief General Raheel Sharif today arrived in Kabul to hold talks with the Afghan leadership on security issues, including reviving stalled peace talks with the Taliban.

The Great Showman has taken yet another turn upon the stage. By fetching up from Kabul in Lahore on his way back to India on the day we celebrate the birthday of Jesus Christ, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Nawaz Sharif - not to mention Good Governance Day! - Modi has certainly ensured that the spotlight remains on his highly persona...

The Pentagon's new chief, Ashton Carter, flew to Kabul on an unannounced visit today to confer with commanders and Afghan leaders about the future of the American military presence in Afghanistan.

US Secretary of State John Kerry downplayed differences with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on an officially unannounced trip to Kabul on Monday. In an hour long press conference, Mr Kerry said, "I am confident President Karzai does not believe the US has any interest except to see the Taliban come to the table to make peace. So we're on the same pa...

A Taliban spokesman on Wednesday dismissed the outcome of a conference in London between the leaders of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Britain which aimed to work towards a peace deal within six months.

As world leaders backed handing over Afghanistan's security responsibility to its government by 2014, India today said that any new process to stabilise the war-torn nation must be fully "Afghan-led and Afghan-owned" and sought an end to sustenance and sanctuaries for terrorists from outside.The international community should ensure that there is n...

The International Conference on Afghanistan gets underway in Kabul today. The meeting is the largest gathering of foreign leaders in the war-torn nation since the 1970s. The conference, which will be attended by nearly 60 world leaders including US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, will discuss Afghanistan's future and chart out security and...

Taliban's spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid, who appeared before the media for the first time in a decade at a press conference said that he lived in the Afghan capital right under the nose of his adversaries who considered him a "ghost-like" figure.

The United States and Western allies evacuated diplomats and civilians from Kabul on Tuesday as Kabul's new rulers hold their first news conference after the Islamist movement ousted the Western-backed government in just days.

A Taliban delegation on Friday attended a diplomatic conference in Russia for the first time, in a move that underscored Moscow's keenness to play a role in the Afghan peace process, but the Kabul government sent no official representative.

A rocket propelled grenade exploded inside India House, Indian Ambassador Manpreet Vohra's residential compound in Kabul this afternoon. Top sources confirmed there were no injuries after it exploded on the tennis court of the residential compound.

The death toll from a devastating truck bomb in Kabul's diplomatic quarter last week has jumped to more than 150, President Ashraf Ghani told an international peace conference in the capital on Tuesday.

Pakistan's army chief General Raheel Sharif today arrived in Kabul to hold talks with the Afghan leadership on security issues, including reviving stalled peace talks with the Taliban.

The Great Showman has taken yet another turn upon the stage. By fetching up from Kabul in Lahore on his way back to India on the day we celebrate the birthday of Jesus Christ, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Nawaz Sharif - not to mention Good Governance Day! - Modi has certainly ensured that the spotlight remains on his highly persona...

The Pentagon's new chief, Ashton Carter, flew to Kabul on an unannounced visit today to confer with commanders and Afghan leaders about the future of the American military presence in Afghanistan.

US Secretary of State John Kerry downplayed differences with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on an officially unannounced trip to Kabul on Monday. In an hour long press conference, Mr Kerry said, "I am confident President Karzai does not believe the US has any interest except to see the Taliban come to the table to make peace. So we're on the same pa...

A Taliban spokesman on Wednesday dismissed the outcome of a conference in London between the leaders of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Britain which aimed to work towards a peace deal within six months.

As world leaders backed handing over Afghanistan's security responsibility to its government by 2014, India today said that any new process to stabilise the war-torn nation must be fully "Afghan-led and Afghan-owned" and sought an end to sustenance and sanctuaries for terrorists from outside.The international community should ensure that there is n...

The International Conference on Afghanistan gets underway in Kabul today. The meeting is the largest gathering of foreign leaders in the war-torn nation since the 1970s. The conference, which will be attended by nearly 60 world leaders including US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, will discuss Afghanistan's future and chart out security and...