The number of people infected with COVID-19 in Afghanistan rose by six to 245 on Thursday, the Ministry of Public Health said was cited as saying by the media

The delegations of the Afghan government and Taliban movement have exchanged lists of prisoners who are to be returned to their respective sides so that the long-awaited intra-Afghan peace talks can begin, sources from the Taliban told Sputnik on Thursday

Taliban's technical team arrived in Kabul on Tuesday to monitor a prisoner release by the Afghan government, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said

Afghanistan's southeastern province of Paktika is facing a severe lack of female doctors due to the nation's long-term war against girls' education, which has consequently created a real crisis for local women who cannot receive care from male doctors and thereby cannot be treated in the majority of health centers

The landmark peace agreement between the United States and the radical Taliban movement is most threatened by the internal political disputes within Afghanistan, Pakistani Senator Sehar Kamran told Sputnik

The Taliban have rejected the Afghan government's negotiation team, claiming that the list of negotiators goes sideways with the previous agreement between the Taliban and the United States, the movement's spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in a statement on Saturday