Afghanistan
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Resolute Support: Der politische Prozess hat Priorität 03/2021
Resolute Support: Der politische Prozess hat Priorität 02/2019
Resolute Support: "Trainieren, Beraten, Unterstützen" - und Verhandeln 03/2018
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UNAMA
United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan (UN-Peacebuilding)
Mandatiert seit: 03/02
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Ghani’s decision came after a government-sponsored grand public assembly, known as a Loya Jirga, advised him to free the prisoners as part of the landmark deal between the Taliban and the United States aimed at ending two decades of deadly Afghan war.
Afghan security forces have restored order at a prison in Jalalabad after a day-long siege claimed by the region's Islamic State offshoot. At least 10 of the dead were IS militants, a local official said.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani announced his government would soon complete the release of 5,000 Taliban prisoners, thus paving the way for the start of long sought-after peace negotiations with the insurgent group.
The United Nations says that civilian casualties in conflict-torn Afghanistan have dropped by 13% in the first half of the year, the lowest figure since 2012, attributing it mainly to a scale back in operations by U.S.-led international military forces and Islamic State terrorists.
Two Taliban attacks in northern Afghanistan’s Kunduz province early Monday killed at least eight Afghan security personnel and wounded multiple others, according to provincial authorities. … The militant attacks continue at a time when the Afghan government is under pressure to facilitate the start of negotiations with the Taliban as soon as possible.
The Taliban said Thursday it has already released 845 Afghan security forces under an ongoing prisoner swap with the Kabul government and is working to free the remaining 155 in line with the insurgent group’s agreement with the United States.
The United States has said its landmark deal with the Taliban has entered the “next phase” while urging the militants to reduce rising violence to allow Afghan peace talks to begin.
A US official in Kabul, speaking on condition of anonymity, said on Tuesday that the five bases closed in Afghanistan--in compliance with the US-Taliban peace agreement--were in Helmand, Uruzgan, Paktika and Laghman provinces.
[…] Under a deal the Taliban signed with the United States in February, the insurgents agreed to stop Al-Qaeda from using Afghanistan as a safe haven to plot attacks. But in the months since, the Taliban have continued to work with Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), the US Defense Department said in a report.
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) on Tuesday blamed Afghan forces for firing mortar shells that struck a busy market in a southern province and killed at least 23 civilians. The Monday morning explosions came as the Taliban and the Afghan government are expected to launch much delayed peace talks aimed at ending the country’s nearly two-decade-old war.