The Iranian parliament confirmed the bill on Afghanistan-Iran railway agreement, according to reports.

Heading a high-level government delegation, President Ashraf Ghani arrived in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, to review the general security situation.

Afghan Minister of Public Health said the outbreak of new type of COVID-19 in neighboring countries has been registered and Afghan citizens should not travel to India and Pakistan for another four weeks.

Head of the Afghan government’s negotiating team M. Masoum Stanekzai says the current Afghan peace process does not have the same regional consensus it had in Bonn process.

Afghanistan’s Attorney General Office (AGO) and the National Directorate of Security (NDS) said in a joint statement that three senators were arrested on bribery charges in northern Balkh province.

The first Vice President Amrullah Saleh says 10 people were killed and 52 more were injured during Sunday’s terror attack on MP’s convoy.

President Ashraf Ghani leading a high-level delegation paid an official visit to Kandahar province on Thursday morning.

Optimism is a rare commodity in Afghanistan. Yet early in 2020 hopes soared that a negotiated end to years of brutal civil war was in sight.

The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF say in a joint press release that lack of water puts health care workers and patients at higher risk of COVID-19 infection.

Sayed Alireza Mahmoodi, a prominent Afghan politician, says that convening intra-Afghan talks within the country will speed up the peace process. According to him, the more peace talks are held abroad, the more concessions both sides have to give.