One person has died and 18 others were injured in an explosion in Afghanistan's eastern province of Kunar, the TOLOnews reported on Saturday, citing sources

Taliban militants attacked an Afghan army checkpoint in the northern Balkh province on Friday night and killed seven soldiers, the TOLOnews reported on Saturday

Two members of the Afghan government's 21-member peace negotiating team, Sharifa Zurmati Wardak and Fawzia Koofi, took part in an online meeting with Rebecca Zimmerman, a US deputy assistant secretary of defense for Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia, as well as with a number of human rights activists to discuss the role of women in the peace process, the negotiating team said on Saturday