Blasts in Afghanistan as presidential rivals hold oath cer...
March 10 ,2020
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By: Michael Safi & Akhtar Mohammad Makoii
Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah during their separate swearing in ceremonies
Blasts have been reported in Kabul as Afghanistan&...
Afghan president pledges to release captive Taliban in ina...
March 10 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has vowed to set free the captive members of the Taliban radical movement, Afghan media reported on Monda...
Parallel presidential ceremonies threatens progress on pea...
March 9 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
The Taleban militant group said peace talks with the Afghan government next week were unlikely to take place because rivals for the pre...
New special operations network is in Afghanistan ahead of...
March 7 ,2020
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By: Dan Lamothe
A new network of Special Operations forces will serve as the backbone of a smaller US military mission in Afghanistan, hunting Islamic...
Taliban say ready for intra-Afghan talks
March 7 ,2020
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By: Kamran Yousaf
The Afghan Taliban on Friday said they were ready to go ahead with the intra-Afghan talks scheduled for 10 March if provisions of the a...
US has opened door to Taliban rule in Afghanistan
March 6 ,2020
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By: Faisal Al Yafai
After more than a year of talks in Qatar, the US and Afghanistan have signed a deal to bring peace to that benighted country. In return...
US-Taliban agreement portends several challenges for India
March 6 ,2020
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By: Kanwal Sibal
The US-Taliban agreement is lopsided, explained by the tight timetable for President Donald Trump to deliver on his campaign promise to...
Afghan war crimes probe must go ahead: ICC judges
March 6 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
International war crimes judges on Thursday (March 5) ruled that a probe into wartime abuses in Afghanistan must go ahead, including lo...
Diplomatic efforts afoot to rescue Afghan peace deal
March 5 ,2020
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By: Kamran Yousaf
Hectic, behind-the-scene diplomatic efforts are under way to rescue the recently-signed US-Afghan Taliban peace deal that gave a glimme...
US strikes Taliban forces days after ‘historic’ deal
March 5 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Days after a deal, heralded as historic, between the United States and the Taliban and after a reported phone call between US President...
Trump talks to Taliban leader for 35 minutes
March 4 ,2020
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By: SAM Report
President Donald Trump spoke by phone to the leader of the Taliban, the militant group and the US leader said on Tuesday, days after Wa...
Regional states won’t oppose US-Taliban deal
March 4 ,2020
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
The reactions of the major regional states surrounding Afghanistan over the US-Taliban peace agreement in Doha Saturday reveal fault li...
President Ghani rejects peace deal's prisoner swap with Ta...
March 2 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Ashraf Ghani
A landmark deal between the United States and Taliban aimed at ending the US's longest war may already be facing obst...
4 takeaways from the US deal with the Taliban
March 2 ,2020
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By: Mujib Mashal & Russell Goldman
The agreement just signed by American and Taliban negotiators opens the way for direct negotiations between the insurgents and other Af...
Taliban and U.S. Strike Deal to Withdraw American Troops f...
March 1 ,2020
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By: SAM Report
The United States signed a deal with the Taliban on Saturday that sets the stage to end America’s longest war — the nearly...
US, Taliban sign historic deal on American withdrawal from...
March 1 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
The United States signed a landmark deal with the Taliban on Saturday, laying out a timetable for a full troop withdrawal from Afghanis...
US withdraws from anti-terrorism front with Taliban peace...
February 29 ,2020
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By: Zhang Yifei
Wreckage of the crashed plane in Deh Yak district of Ghazni province, Afghanistan
Since the US launched its war in Afghanistan tar...
Afghan govt’s team en route to Doha to meet Taliban
February 28 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
A six-member delegation from the Afghan government, entirely chosen by President Ashraf Ghani, is on its way to Doha to meet with the T...
Split in Afghan gov’t helps the Taliban in forthcoming pea...
February 26 ,2020
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By: Emran Feroz
Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah (center)
The Afghan government may be proving to be its own worst enemy on the eve...
US wants Afghan president to postpone planned inauguration...
February 26 ,2020
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By: Jonathan Landay & Arshad Mohammed
Afghanistan's president Ashraf Ghani
The United States wants Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to defer his second-term inauguration...
Violence 93% down in Afghanistan
February 25 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Violence declined by 96 percent in the first 24 hours of the Reduction in Violence (RiV) period as compared to the past corresponding p...
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