Tag: Afghan Taliban
Afghan Taliban release drone footage of suicide attack
Afghanistan’s Taliban have released drone footage showing a suicide bomber driving a Humvee into a police base in Helmand province and blowing it up...
Pakistan scrambles for return of chopper crew taken hostage by Taliban
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif says Pakistani govt using ‘formal and informal channels’ for safe return of six Pakistanis and a Russian aviator from Afghanistan
Pentagon not to pay Pakistan $300 million in military reimbursements
The Pentagon will not pay Pakistan $300 million in military reimbursements after US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter be decided not to tell Congress...
Afghan Taliban delegation visits China to discuss violence
A delegation from the Taliban visited China earlier this month to discuss the situation in Afghanistan, where the insurgent movement is fighting the Western-backed...
US will keep supporting democracy in Pak, says outgoing US consul...
US consul general says US is not against the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as it wants Pakistan to prosper
Afghan Taliban dismiss reports of slowdown since change of leader
The Afghan Taliban said on Tuesday they were launching new operations after the end of the holy month of Ramadan, dismissing reports that they...
Former Afghan spy chief says letters show Pakistan supports militants
The former head of Afghanistan’s main intelligence agency released documents the other day which he said showed that Pakistani intelligence services helped leaders of...
Afghan forces’ casualties climbing in 2016, top US commander says
Afghan forces are suffering rising levels of battlefield casualties this year after unprecedented numbers of police and soldiers were killed and wounded in 2015,...
Afghan Taliban, TTP gunfights leave 14 dead in Afghanistan
Pakistani and Afghan Taliban have clashed in eastern Afghanistan, causing casualties on both sides, Afghan officials said on Friday.
The Afghan Defence Ministry said eight...
Taliban use ‘honey trap’ boys to kill Afghan police
The Taliban are using child sex slaves to mount crippling insider attacks on police in southern Afghanistan, exploiting the pervasive practice of “bacha bazi”...
Taliban shadow judge Qazi Mohsin wounded in north of Afghanistan
The shadow judge of the Taliban group identified as Qazi Mohsin was wounded during an operation in northern Baghlan province of Afghanistan, local media...
Afghan Taliban gun down three women in Logar
Taliban militants allegedly shot dead three sisters in the central Logar province of Afghanistan, local officials said Sunday.
The officials said that the women were...
Afghan Taliban kidnap 47 in Kunduz
Unidentified militants seized 47 passengers traveling on a highway in Afghanistan’s Kunduz province on Wednesday, officials said, the latest in a series of kidnappings...
Mullah Mansour met with Iranian officials two months before his death:...
According to Jahan, the Taliban chief agreed to stop ISIS’s expansion on Afghanistan’s northern border and the frontier with Tajikistan.
Attack on Mullah Mansoor pushing Taliban away from negotiations: PESA
Says real motive behind drone attack is to damage growing Pak-China ties
The Pakistan Ex-servicemen Association (PESA) has said that the US attack on Mullah...
Mullah Mansour often travelled to UAE, Iran: Afghan Taliban
The Afghan Taliban confirmed that their former leader Mullah Mansour frequently travelled to the Middle East over the past decade in order to raise...
Sirajuddin Haqqani may be even more deadly foe than Mansour
The Haqqani network is thought to have introduced suicide bombing to Afghanistan and the US State Department calls it the most lethal insurgent group targeting US-led and government forces in Afghanistan.
