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Taliban and Afghan politicians hold talks in Moscow
- Asia-Pacific
- February 5, 2019, 20:00
Senior Afghan politicians, including former president Hamid Karzai, began a meeting with Taliban representatives in Moscow on Tuesday, weeks after the(...)

At least 21 killed in Taliban attack in Afghanistan
- Middle East
- February 5, 2019, 09:56
At least 21 people including 11 police officers have been killed in a Taliban attack in Afghanistan, provincial officials said. Insurgents stormed a (...)

US and Taliban agree in principle to peace framework, envoy says
- Asia-Pacific
- January 28, 2019, 13:36
American and Taliban officials have agreed in principle to the framework of a peace deal in which the insurgents guarantee to prevent Afghan territory(...)

The Irish Times view on Afghanistan: the Taliban resurgent
- Editorial
- January 23, 2019, 00:02
On Monday, a group of attackers drove a captured military humvee packed with explosives into a national intelligence base about 40 km outside the Afgh(...)

Afghanistan reels from Taliban attack on base that killed dozens
- Asia-Pacific
- January 22, 2019, 14:25
Afghanistan was reeling from Monday’s brazen Taliban assault on a military base in the country’s east that killed at least 45 people and wounded as ma(...)

Toddler dies a month after a roadside bomb kills most of her family
- Asia-Pacific
- January 2, 2019, 16:10
On the small whiteboard above the little girl’s hospital bed, in the medical bills that she had no one left to pay, and in the news reports about a sh(...)

Afghan Taliban meet US officials as peace efforts intensify
- Asia-Pacific
- December 17, 2018, 18:33
Afghan Taliban representatives and US officials met in the United Arab Emirates on Monday, the Taliban said, amid diplomatic moves towards establishin(...)

Attacks on British contractors’ compound in Kabul kill at least 10
- Asia-Pacific
- November 28, 2018, 20:27
Gunmen attacked a British security contractors’ compound in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Wednesday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 19 only h(...)

At least 50 killed and 75 injured in Kabul suicide bombing
- Middle East
- November 20, 2018, 14:34
At least 50 people were killed and 75 injured in the bombing of a crowded religious gathering in Kabul on Tuesday. Afghan officials were trying to d(...)

Afghans shut out by polling station chaos try to vote again
- Asia-Pacific
- October 21, 2018, 11:48
Afghans unable to vote in Saturday’s parliamentary election after hundreds of polling stations failed to open were given another chance to cast their (...)