The full withdrawal will depend on the Taliban meeting certain counter-terrorism conditions.

US to leave Afghanistan in 14 months under peace deal

The countdown to a peace deal to end the 18-year-war between the Taliban and the United States comes begins on Friday night.

Taliban and US seven days away from peace deal as 'partial truce' begins

The US wants any deal to include a promise from the Taliban that Afghanistan would not be used as a base by terrorist groups.

American Kevin King and Australian Timothy Weeks are both professors at the American University of Kabul.

The president said his administration is looking at whether to proceed with troop reductions in Afghanistan.

The Californian was captured on the battlefield in Afghanistan in 2001 and had been incarcerated in a US federal prison.

An Afghan boy who shot to fame after wearing a Messi shirt made out of a bag has fled his home after the Taliban threatened to kill him.

Thousands of mourners have attended the funeral of a prominent cleric known as the "Father of the Taliban".

They say foreign forces are excluded from the ceasefire and Taliban operations would continue against them.

The Defence Secretary has recommended a substantial increase military presence to the prime minister.

The president railed against the "atrocities," adding that Washington would not engage in future talks with the group.

Joshua Boyle, his wife Caitlan Coleman and their three young children were rescued from the Taliban-linked Haqqani network in October.

An American woman, her Canadian husband and their three children have been freed by a network linked to the Taliban after years in captivity

ITV News interviewed a group of Taliban not far outside Helmand’s provincial capital, Lashkar Gah.

More than 100 army personnel have been killed and wounded in a Taliban attack on a military base in Afghanistan.