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  Peace talks at snail’s pace due to Taliban: Afghan govt

  Agence France-Presse . Kabul | Updated at 11:46pm on January 20, 2021

  Afghan authorities lambasted the Taliban Wednesday for failing to actively participate in peace talks seeking to end the country’s long-running war. Following months of deliberations...

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  Two female judges of Afghanistan supreme court shot to death

  Agence France-Presse . Kabul | Updated at 12:00pm on January 17, 2021

  Gunmen killed two Afghan women judges working for the Supreme Court during an early morning ambush in Kabul on Sunday, officials said, as a wave...

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  Afghanistan traffic authorities retire licence plates with ‘39’

  Agence France-Presse . Kabul, Afghanistan | Updated at 04:32pm on January 14, 2021

  Afghan traffic authorities are retiring licence plates containing the number "39" because the figure has long been associated with pimping and prostitution...

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  Bomb kills 3 in Kabul

  Agence France-Presse . Kabul | Updated at 10:24pm on January 10, 2021

  An Afghan journalist-turned spokesman for the country’s public protection force was killed along with two colleagues Sunday by a bomb targeting their vehicle, officials said....

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  Gunmen kill Afghan radio journalist in car ambush

  Agence France-Presse . Kabul | Updated at 09:11pm on January 01, 2021

  An Afghan radio journalist was shot dead on Friday in a car ambush in the central province of Ghor, officials said, the fifth media worker...

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  Two Afghan cops killed in Kabul explosions

  Agence France-Presse . Kabul | Updated at 03:09pm on December 26, 2020

  Two Afghan policemen were killed as three ‘sticky bombs’ exploded in Kabul on Saturday, the latest violence to hit the Afghan capital...

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  Afghan women’s rights activist shot dead

  Agence France-Presse . Kabul | Updated at 10:37am on December 25, 2020

  Gunmen on a motorbike shot dead a women’s rights activist and her brother north of Afghanistan’s capital on Thursday, officials said, as a wave of...

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  Afghan reporter shot dead

  Agence France-Presse . Kabul | Updated at 09:51pm on December 22, 2020

  Gunmen murdered an Afghan journalist in the eastern city of Ghazni on Monday, the third reporter to be killed in the last two months in...

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  Doctors among five killed in Kabul bombing

  Agence France-Presse . Kabul | Updated at 09:49pm on December 22, 2020

  Four doctors who worked at an Afghan prison with hundreds of Taliban inmates were among five people killed Tuesday by a bomb attached to their...

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  Car bomb targeting Afghan MP kills 9

  Agence France-Presse . Kabul | Updated at 02:09pm on December 20, 2020

  A car bomb targeting an Afghan lawmaker killed nine people and wounded more than a dozen in Kabul on Sunday, officials said, the latest attack...