Chairman of Afghanistan’s High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah said on Friday that long-stalled talks on a political settlement to decades of strife should not be abandoned despite surging Taliban attacks unless the insurgents themselves pull out...

Abdullah Abdullah, the head of the High Council of National Reconciliation (HCNR), on Thursday said the system will collapse if Afghan leaders do not forge a consensus on the issues of national importance...

Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah has welcomed the Taliban’s announcement of a temporary ceasefire over Eid-ul-Fitr but said this is not a permanent solution...

Abdullah Abdullah, chairman of the HCNR, on Sunday posted on his Twitter page that the leadership committee of the High Council for National Reconciliation has decided on a clear set of guidelines for the next round of peace talks which are expected to resume on January 5...

President Ashraf Ghani met with Abdullah Abdullah, head of the Reconciliation Council, on Sunday at the Presidential Palace to address the next round of the peace talks, the Palace said in a statement...

Addressing the first meeting of the High Council for National Reconciliation, chairman Abdullah Abdullah said on Saturday that in order for Afghanistan to achieve peace, international and regional support is needed...

Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah on Monday met with Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani in his ongoing efforts to garner support from regional countries for the Afghan peace process...

Abdullah Abdullah, the Chairman of Afghanistan’s High Council for National Reconciliation (HCNR), will visit Iran from Sunday, said Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh...

Abdullah Abdullah, chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation, on Saturday warned that a premature withdrawal of international troops will have consequences for the peace process, adding that the Taliban will also not benefit from the withdrawal of US troops...

Abdullah Abdullah, Chairman of the National Reconciliation Council met with Indian External Affairs Minister S...

After two days of back-to-back meetings with high-ranking Pakistani officials, Afghanistan’s peace envoy Abdullah Abdullah will wrap up his official three-day visit to Islamabad on Wednesday - taking home a clear message that the ice has been broken and both nations realize the need to strengthen bilateral ties...

Abdullah Abdullah, the chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation, traveled from Kabul to Islamabad on Monday morning for a three-day official visit that will include meeting Prime Minister Imran Khan, as well as the president and other Pakistani officials, Abdullah’s office confirmed...

Chairman of the High Council for Afghanistan Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah said he will visit Pakistan within the next few days - the first time since 2008 - and implied issues between the two countries need to be ironed out...

Chairman of Afghanistan’s High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah returned to Kabul on Sunday night after a two-day trip to Qatar for the opening of intra-Afghan talks...

The head of Afghanistan’s High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah said negotiators would discuss a reduction in violence when they met with Taliban representatives on Sunday...

Afghanistan’s long-awaited intra-Afghan talks got underway Saturday morning in Doha, Qatar after years of behind-the-scenes activity to get to this historic point...

Former president Hamid Karzai on Tuesday said he welcomes Abdullah Abdullah’s stance on selecting the members of the High Council for National Reconciliation after consultation with political leaders, elders and civil society organizations...

The Loya Jirga, the grand assembly, in a resolution issued on Sunday approved the release of the 400 Taliban prisoners in an aim to quickly start the intra-Afghan talks and bring about a ceasefire and an end to the nation’s war...

In a virtual interview given for the US Institute of Peace on Wednesday, Abdullah Abdullah, the chairman of the High National Reconciliation Council, discussed his idea for bringing peace to Afghanistan and said that there are still serious concerns among the Afghan people about their civil liberties and rights despite their hopes this time there will be peace in the country...

Senior diplomats from Iran, Pakistan, China and Russia have thrown their weight behind a power-sharing deal in Afghanistan signed between leaders of the country’s two main political factions, expressing hope that the important step would speed up intra-Afghan talks...

Ashraf Ghani and his political rival Abdullah Abdullah signed a power-sharing deal after months of political discord that critics say could have pushed the country towards a new crisis if not resolved...

TOLOnews has obtained a copy of the political agreement between President Ashraf Ghani and his political opponent Abdullah Abdullah that outlines the structure of a future government in which each side will have a 50 percent share...

Half a year after the presidential elections in Afghanistan, the government is yet to be formed in the country...

Presidente Abdullah Abdullah endorsed Tuesday the delegation for intra-Afghan peace dialogue announced by Ashraf Ghani aimed to negotiate with the Taliban representatives, noting that the team represents the country’s national interests...

President Abdullah Abdullah at a press conference on Thursday said the US cut of $1B aid to Afghanistan cannot be compensated...

The US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad in an interview with TOLOnews on Wednesday spoke about a number of significant topics related to the peace agreement between the US and the Taliban, including counterterrorism operations, intra-Afghan talks and the prisoner exchange, and he also spoke about the current political deadlock between Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah...

Abdullah Abdullah, at a parallel swearing-in ceremony in Kabul on Tuesday, took an oath of office as a self-proclaimed president and vowed to establish an inclusive government, focusing on peace and governance reforms...

The inauguration ceremonies for President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah have been postponed...

Afghan security institutions are facing serious questions a day after at least 32 people were killed and 8 others were wounded in an attack on a ceremony marking the anniversary of the death of Abdul Ali Mazari, the slain leader of the Hezb-e Wahdat party...

Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah on Thursday in an interview with TOLOnews said that a delegation from President Ghani’s side and a group from his own team held a meeting on Thursday to find a common solution to the election standoff...

Osmani said that after many phone calls from the Chief Executive’s office he was allowed to fly to Herat...

Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah in a statement on Saturday once again rejected the presidential election results, saying the announcement is not credible and is based on fraud...

Abdullah Abdullah, the frontrunner of 2019 presidential elections, is set to kick-start the implementation of his widespread plan from the North after rejecting the announcement of final presidential election results...

In the midst of the electoral dispute, Mohammad Karim Khalili, a top member of Abdullah Abdullah’s Stability and Convergence campaign team, on Friday said that Abdullah’s campaign was holding discussions about the formation of a new cabinet under Abdullah’s leadership...

The Council of Presidential Candidates during a press conference on Thursday called for the final results of the presidential election to be disregarded...

Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah in a letter on Thursday asked the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission, Josep Borrell, for clarification about the EU’s congratulation of President Ghani...

Afghanistan has entered a fragile phase due to the controversial release of the results of the country’s September presidential election...

Presidential candidate and leader of Hizb-e-Islami party, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, at a press conference in Kabul on Wednesday rejected Tuesday’s announcement by the Independent Election Commission (IEC) declaring incumbent Ashraf Ghani the country’s next president, saying Ghani chose the path of crisis rather than the path of cooperation...

Afghanistan’s former president Hamid Karzai on Wednesday said that he had already informed the Afghan people that the current circumstances in the country weren’t suitable to ensure credibility and transparency of the elections and that the election process was imposed on the Afghan people...

Hours after the announcement of the final results of the presidential election by the Independent Election Commission, Abdullah Abdullah, the chief executive of Afghanistan, announced the formation of an inclusive government by his Stability and Convergence campaign team, declaring his victory in the polls...

Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah at the Council of Ministers on Monday said that the peace agreement between the Taliban and US has been finalized...

First Vice President Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum has threatened to form a parallel government under the leadership of Abdullah Abdullah, the chief executive of the National Unity Government, if the election commission announces fraudulent results of the presidential elections, which were held on September 28, 2019...

Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah on Friday said that for the people of Afghanistan, after 40 years of war, peace is a priority...

A group of politicians and senior members of Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah’s campaign team at a gathering in Kabul on Sunday criticized the Presidential Palace for impeding the peace process by introducing new conditions for a potential peace agreement...

Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah said on Monday that peace is not one person’s monopoly, but is a collective desire...

Some of Afghanistan’s mainstream political leaders and former mujahideen figures on Thursday vowed to defy the establishment of a government arising from electoral fraud...

Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, the Chief Executive Officer of the National Unity Government of Afghanistan and the only serious rival of President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani in the 2019 presidential election, has filed over 4,000 complaints over the preliminary presidential election results...

Presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah on Friday asked the protestors currently blocking the offices of the Independent Election Commission (IEC) to allow the recount of the votes in the seven remaining provinces so that no excuse is left...

Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah on Wednesday stressed that if the Independent Election Commission (IEC) announces the results of the election, it will not be acceptable for him...

A meeting on Sunday between election commissioners and campaign teams, political parties, civil society and election observers, in which the electoral standoff was discussed, did not provide solutions to the current standoff...