Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has announced the names of the appointed members and leaders of the country’s High Council for National Reconciliation, a body tasked with leading peace negotiations with the Taliban.
The latest clashes and explosions in Afghanistan have killed 81 people and injured dozens.
Tehran (IP)- A senior Iran diplomat said that Afghanistan's problems have no military solution and the withdrawal of foreign troops from the country is a necessary step towards peace in Afghanistan.
Ninety members of the Taliban were killed in clashes with Afghan forces.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Taliban political deputy Abdul Ghani Baradar discussed the Afghan peace process by video conference Monday night.
Dozens have been killed in an attack by the Taliban on the Afghan National Security Agency building in Samangan province.
Seven Afghan policemen have been killed in two roadside bomb blasts in the west of the country.
The Balkh representative in the Afghan parliament blamed Zalmay Khalilzad's meetings with the Taliban for escalating the war and insecurity in the country.
The special envoy of Iran's foreign minister for Afghanistan, Mohammad Ebrahim Taherianfard met with the head of the Taliban's political office in Doha Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar to discuss peace in Afghanistan.
The Pakistani Prime Minister has said the US military is doomed to failure in Afghanistan.