Members of the Taliban delegation from the left: Khairullah Khairkhwa, former western Herat Governor and one of five Taliban released from the U.S. prison on Guantanamo Bay in exch...
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A member of Taliban negotiation delegation, keeps his face mask during the opening session of the peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban in Doha, Qatar.
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Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, center, U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, right, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, left, speaks during a joint news conference in pres...
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Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, right, shakes hands with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, after a joint news conference in presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan. The U.S...
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From left, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets with Qatar's Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani before a peace signing ceremony between the U.S. and th...
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U.S. peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, left, and Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban group's top political leader shack hands after signing a peace agreement between Taliban and U....
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Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, who served as ambassador to Pakistan during the Taliban's rule speaks to the media in Doha, Qatar. The United States is poised to sign a pe...
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This photo provided by Tariq Ghazniwal shows an aircraft that crashed in eastern Afghanistan. The U.S. military says it is investigating reports of an airplane crash in Taliban-con...
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In this photo released by the Foreign Office, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, center, receives members of Taliban delegation at the Foreign Office in Islamabad, P...
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Afghans transport the body of a woman who was killed during a raid conducted by Afghan special forces, in the southern Helmand province. An Afghan official said Monday that at leas...
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In this image from video released by the CIA, Hamza bin Laden, the son of of the late al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden is seen as an adult at his wedding. The White House says Hamza...
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Afghan special forces stand guard at the site of a suicide car bomb explosion that killed at least four people, on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah...
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Afghan President Ashraf Ghani speaks during a ceremony to introduce the new chief of the intelligence service, in Kabul, Afghanistan. Ghani, whose government was sidelined in the U...
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In this Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019, photo, A former Taliban military leader Syed Akbar Agha speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan, Agha defended t...
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A Taliban delegation attends the Intra-Afghan dialogue in Doha along with other Afghan stakeholders
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An Afghan man checks the remains of his belongings at his shop following Monday's attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Taliban set off a powerful bomb in downtown Kabul on Monday, kil...
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In this photo released by the Foreign Office, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, second from right, talks with visiting Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in Islamabad, Pa...
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Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban group's top political leader, third from left, arrives with other members of the Taliban delegation for talks in Moscow, Russia. Baradar and...
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Members of the Helmand Peace Convoy, calling for an end to the 17-year war, arrive in Kabul, Afghanistan after trekking across the country on foot. The protest march began with a g...
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Taliban fighters and their supporters carry a representation of the Afghan national flag and a Taliban flag while riding in a motorized vehicle, in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government are underway in Doha. After avoiding the Taliban for long, India must now accept reality and engage with it. At stake are vital interests in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries. With healthcare structure in shambles, peace talks involving the Taliban and the United States are unlikely in the near future
Pakistan is certain to extract its pound of flesh for bringing Taliban to the talks table with US. Anti-India terrorist activities could also get a boost
Post Donald Trump's unsolicited, mediatory hand in 'solving' the Kashmir issue, India has to frame its Pakistan policy in the light of the Afghan talks and the FATF ruling
There is widespread fear that the US is conceding too much space to Taliban as Donald Trump wants to fulfill his electoral promise to end the Afghan war
In this week's The Subcontinental Menu, read about the first female manager at Assam's tea estate and a band of Dalit women from landless families in Bihar, among many others.
Religion has not always performed its ideal role of facilitating unity and harmony. The belief in a vision for a better world is the ultimate weapon against violence and oppression.