KABUL, 4 April 2021, (TON): The blast happened at around 8:40 am local time when an army vehicle was targeted by a roadside bomb blast in the Qaragha area of Paghman district, police said.

Police did not provide further details about the incident and no group has claimed responsibility for the blast.  

At least 307 Afghans were killed, and 350 others were wounded in a series of explosions and targeted attacks in March. There has been a 20 percent increase in the number of explosions and targeted attacks in the country in March compared to February. In February, the casualties were around 264 deaths and 278 injuries. 

KABUL, 30 March, 2021, (TON): The President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Mohammad Ashraf Ghani met with his Tajik partner, Imam Ali Rahman, focused on the need to additional development of participation in different fields between the two nations, the Presidential Palace said Monday. Heartily invited in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, the two chiefs met at the Millat Palace of the Presidential Palace of the facilitating country, during an authority service where, the public songs of the devotion of the two check ries were played, the castle said in a proclamation.

In a bilateral meeting, the two nations leaders discussed the expansion of relations and co-operation between the two countries’ in various fields. During the meeting, the President of Tajikistan greeted President Ghani and his accompanying delegation to their second home in Tajikistan, adding that he was pleased to meet the Afghan leader during the ancient Nawruz festival, the statement said.

According to the statement, Imam Ali Rahman said that cooperation and relations between the two countries, which have a common language, culture and civilization, are based on the principle of brotherhood and good neighborliness.

Deeply thanking the Tajik President for his hospitality, the country’s president Mohammad Ashraf Ghani said that coming to Tajikistan is always a renewal of a thousand-year-old relationship and a broad vision of cooperation, the statement added.

He added that Tajikistan plays a key role in Afghanistan’s five foreign policy circles in three areas, such as its neighbor, the Islamic country and a key country in the changing Asia.

The country's leader noticed that Afghanistan and Tajikistan don't have any key contrasts and we need the line between the two nations to turn into a boundary of participation, coordination and sympathy, the statement quoted. President Ghani likewise underlined the requirement for advancement of exchange and travel relations and participation in the fields of safety, culture, energy, fortifying the coasts between the two nations, and said, we welcome your pointing to the Tajik leader position for an honorable and enduring harmony in Afghanistan inside the system of the republic.

BERLIN, 26 March, 2021, (TON): Germany has up to 1,300 soldiers in Afghanistan who will stay until January 2022.

Germany's Parliament extended the presence of German troops in Afghanistan for another 10 months, media reports say. Germany has up to 1,300 soldiers in Afghanistan under NATO’s Resolute Support’s train, advice, and assist mission to Afghan forces who will stay until January 2022.

 This comes as the Biden administration is still reviewing the 2020 agreement with the Taliban and it is not yet clear whether or for how long NATO troops will stay in the country. US President Joe Biden on Thursday said it will be hard to meet the May 1 deadline for getting troops out of Afghanistan for "tactical reasons."

WASHINGTON, 26 March 2021, (TON): US President Joe Biden on Thursday said it will be difficult to comply with the May 1 time constraint to pull out US troops from Afghanistan according to the arrangement made during the Donald Trump organization.

Speaking at his first press conference since taking office, Biden said that, "It is going to be hard to meet the May 1 deadline. In terms of tactical reason, it is hard to get those troops out. We have been meeting with our allies, those who also have troops in Afghanistan. If we leave we will do it in a safe and orderly way. We are in consultations with our allies and partners on how to proceed."

"It is not my intention to stay there for a long time. But the question is how and under what circumstances do we meet that agreement that was made by (former) President Trump," Biden said when asked about the exit of US troops from Afghanistan.

Lastly, Biden said, "We (US) will leave (Afghanistan), the question is when we will leave.

"Since coming to power the Biden administration has made it clear that it is not willing to let the Taliban have its way as the price for ending the war in Afghanistan amid reports of al Qaeda gaining strength in the country.

On February 29, 2020, the US and the Taliban development marked a harmony bargain in Doha, Qatar, specifying a progressive withdrawal of US troops just as the start of intra-Afghan dealings and prisoner exchanges.

The discussions were postponed on different occasions until the Afghan government and the Taliban figured out how to concur on the prisoner exchange measure.

KABUL, 24 March, 2021, (TON): Tending to the introduction function of Kamal Khan dam, Ghani said that the economy of Iran and Afghanistan are interrelated and collaboration between the two nations ought to create.

He added that the value of transferring goods through Chabahar Port is 2.5 times less than Karachi Port. Meanwhile, Afghan Agriculture minister Anwar ul-Haq Ahady said Nimrouz is located near Chabahar and the agricultural products can be transferred through this border.

Chabahar, as Iran's only ocean port, plays an important role in developing trade, exports, imports, and fishing as well.

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei's special attention and the efforts made by President Hassan Rouhani's government have accelerated the development of Makran Coasts, especially Chabahar Port, in a way that five big ships carrying basic goods, including wheat, barley, soybean, and corn berthed in one week.

MOSCOW, Russia, 20 March, 2021, (TON): Following the Moscow gathering on Afghan harmony, delegates addressing the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the Taliban just as Hizb-e-Islami pioneer Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and the Taliban held shut entryway gatherings and examined the possibilities for an arranged settlement to the predominant clashes in the country.

Taliban, in the gathering, hung on Friday, by and by demanding that a perpetual truce was relevant once an understanding is reached between Afghan gatherings to set up an Islamic government in the nation, acknowledged by every one of the Afghans. In any case, Abdullah, top of the High Council for National Reconciliation, said the position of "Troika" part nations on the future political framework in Afghanistan mirrors the desire of the Afghan public, stated in a report.

"We welcome this statement because its main focus is on achieving peace and the demands of the Afghan people and the concerns that exist among the Afghan people," Abdullah said.

"This issue can be discussed in the next stage. It is up to Afghans to decide what type of political system they want, but it is a resolute fact that the future system should be an Islamic government. There is no doubt in it," Taliban spokesman Mohammad Naeem said.

"We want a new Islamic government to get shape so that the Muslim nation of Afghanistan can get its benefit," Taliban negotiator Mullah Khairullah Khairkhaw said. Meanwhile, Hizb-e-Islami leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who held a separate meeting with the Taliban, said there is a need for an inclusive government to be formed.

This comes after a joint proclamation was given after the meeting in Moscow on Friday in which the four essential delegate nations Russia, China, the US, and Pakistan expressed that "they would not support the return of the Islamic emirate system in Afghanistan".

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday welcomed the statement by the Moscow conference and called it a step forward towards beginning serious talks for achieving peace based on Afghans' demand.

KABUL, 15 March, 2021, (TON): Afghanistan's interior minister said on Saturday that Afghan security forces can hold their ground regardless of whether US troops pull out, testing a notice from the United States foreseeing a withdrawal would yield fast regional additions to the Taliban.

Masoud Andarabi's remarks in a meeting on Saturday were the primary government response to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's admonition gave in a forcefully phrased letter to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani a weekend ago.

In the letter pressing Ghani to step up efforts to make peace with the Taliban, Blinken said, "I am concerned the security situation will worsen and that the Taliban could make rapid territorial gains" after the American military pulls out. Andarabi said Afghanistan's National Security Forces could hold an area, yet would probably bear weighty misfortunes attempting to hold distant designated spots without US air uphold.

KABUL, 13 March, 2021, (TON): A powerful car bomb at almost a police headquarters on 13 March, 2021 night killed at any rate seven individuals and injured in excess of 50 others in Afghanistan's western Herat territory, officials said.

Many homes and shops were likewise harmed in the impact as rescuers hurried to the scene to help a few groups caught under the rubble, Qatali said

Russia intends to hold a meeting on Afghanistan in Moscow on March 18 and has welcomed a few provincial players, including the Afghan government and legislators to kick off the harmonious interaction as discretion by foreign forces including Washington increase.

It comes at a crunch time for the peace process as a May 1 deadline for foreign troops to withdraw from Afghanistan looms and the United States reviews its plans.