A US-led coalition in Afghanistan finished its combat mission in December 2014, marking the formal end of the longest war in American history.
Since then, US troops have remained in the country acting in a supervisory role, training Afghan soldiers and offering military assistance when requested.
New efforts for peace in the nation comes in the wake of clashes between the US-supported Afghan security forces and members of the Taliban radical group in the Qara Bagh district of the country's east-central Ghazni province on Friday, killing at least 120.
An Afghan people's peace movement, has sprung up in the country, decrying almost two decades of war at the hands of Washington and it's appointed supervisors.
Abdul Malik Hamdard, a computer teacher, along with 50 other peace activists, described to the Washington Post spending three days walking barefoot along a highway from Kabul, the country's capital, as a form of protest and a means to draw attention to ongoing killings.
“War kills Afghan people every day,” Hamdard said, adding, “we will walk from Kabul to Mazar for peace,” referring to Mazar-e Sharif, a city 200 miles north of Kabul, cited by the Washington Post.
The peace marchers formed their group in the southern Afghanistan province of Helmand after a bombing March. In the beginning, the group organized peaceful protests in local Helmand.
In May and June, eight members of the group expanded their call…
