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At least 25 people were killed and 10 others injured in a suicide attack near a USA base in eastern Afghanistan, officials said.

Local media, citing the provincial police chief, said 25 people were killed and another 10 were wounded, all of them civilians, including women and children.

The first round of talks brokered by Pakistan between representatives of the Afghan government and Tehreek-i-Taliban Afghanistan (TTA) concluded Wednesday in Murree, with both parties agreeing to meet again.

The attack occurred Sunday evening when the driver of an explosives-laden vehicle rammed his auto into a police checkpoint in Khost City, the capital of the eastern province of Khost.

All of the dead are believed to be Afghan.

KABUL: At least 12 civilians were killed in twin roadside bomb blasts in Afghanistan, officials said on Sunday, blaming the attacks on the Taliban as the militants intensify their summer offensive.

Previous attempts to engage Kabul and Taliban in negotiations have fallen flat, including the opening of a Taliban office in Qatar in 2013 which was shut down after ex- Afghan President Hamid Karzai sharply criticized the move, arguing that Kabul would only engage in inter-Afghan...

The bomber detonated the explosives at a military roadblock near the entrance to Camp Chapman, said Faizullah Ghairat, the Khost city police chief.

“There’re a few Taliban who still don’t want peace”. As the insurgency rages in Afghanistan, the Taliban’s leadership has taken refuge in Pakistan. That will be difficult because fighters are spread across Afghanistan and Pakistan, he said.

The Afghan government publicly confirmed Tuesday that a delegation from the High Peace Council has traveled to Islamabad, Pakistan, to engage in talks with the Taliban.

Ceasefire is a major demand from the Afghan government as Dr Ashraf Ghani’s government is seemingly helpless in countering the Taliban’s spring offensive, the official said, adding that during the dialogue held on Tuesday night at Murree, the Afghan Taliban delegation...

However an official with the Pakistani Foreign Ministry said that two days of talks would begin on Wednesday.

A delegation from Afghanistan’s president is meeting representatives of the Taliban in the Pakistani capital, officials said, in the first publicly acknowledged talks with the insurgents fighting to topple the government in Kabul.

Division among Taliban leaders have been rife.