
United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday said he welcomed the announcement by the Taliban and the Afghan government of a ceasefire to enable the Afghan people to celebrate the Eid al-Fitr holiday in peace. In a statement, the secretary-general urged all parties concerned to seize this opportunity and ...

Afghan security forces on Tuesday repelled a fierce Taliban attack on Kunduz, officials said, a strategic city in northern Afghanistan that had briefly fallen to the militants twice in the past. Taliban militants attacked several outposts of Afghan forces on the outskirts of the city at around 1:00 am, triggering ...