KABUL, 14 March, 2021, (TON): Militancy and conflicts have increased in the war-torn Afghanistan as more than 30 people were killed over the past 24 hours amid accelerated peace efforts to find a negotiated solution to the country’s lingering crisis. 

In the latest wave of violent incidents, a roadside bomb struck a mini-bus in Uruzgan province on Saturday morning, killing three people and wounding four others, all civilians, the provincial government confirmed in a statement. 

Similarly, a powerful car bomb near a police station in Afghanistan’s western Herat province has killed at least eight people and wounded more than 50 others.  

Three more civilians including women and children were killed as a mortar fired by insurgents struck a residential area in Nurak village outside Zabul provincial capital Qalat on Friday, police said. 

Russia, according to local media reports, is going to hold peace conference on Afghanistan on March 18 with the participation of Afghanistan`s neighboring states as well as other countries including China, Russia, Pakistan, Iran, the US and India. 
Turkey is also arranging a US proposed conference on Afghanistan peace process in April to help find a political solution to the war-torn country`s lingering crisis. 

The War in Afghanistan is an ongoing war following the United States invasion of Afghanistan that began when the United States of America and its allies successfully drove the Taliban from power in order to deny Al-Qaeda a safe base of operations in Afghanistan.