Ashraf Ghani
AFGHAN PEACE PROCESS / Taliban without Mullah Omar
Pakistan has to undertake some serious confidence building measures with Kabul. President Ashraf Ghani, who is keen to stop the bloodletting, is still not sure whether Pakistan really wants the insurgency to cease or if it has other motives.
US pledges to keep funding Afghan forces
The United States assures Afghanistan's leaders it will keep funding Afghan security forces at a targeted peak level of 352,000 personnel at least into 2017 to provide stability as foreign troops withdraw from the country
Afghan president orders inquiry into woman's killing
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani calls for an investigation after a mob beat a woman to death in the capital, Kabul, and then set her body on fire
Afghanistan hit by fresh avalanches
Huge new avalanches hit Afghanistan's Panjshir Valley killing at least 286 people so far
Taliban without Mullah Omar
Pakistan has to undertake some serious confidence building measures with Kabul. President Ashraf Ghani, who is keen to stop the bloodletting, is still not sure whether Pakistan really wants the insurgency to cease or if it has other motives.
US pledges to keep funding Afghan forces
The United States assures Afghanistan's leaders it will keep funding Afghan security forces at a targeted peak level of 352,000 personnel at least into 2017 to provide stability as foreign troops withdraw from the country
Afghan president orders inquiry into woman's killing
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani calls for an investigation after a mob beat a woman to death in the capital, Kabul, and then set her body on fire
Afghanistan hit by fresh avalanches
Huge new avalanches hit Afghanistan's Panjshir Valley killing at least 286 people so far