Tag: Taliban

Afghanistan has formally sought the help of Maulana Samiul Haq to urge the Taliban to resume the Pakistan-brokered peace talks, which had been halted...

Dimming hopes that the Taliban might be weakened by a leadership struggle after their longtime leader's death, a wave of attacks on the Afghan army and police and US special forces in Kabul killed at least 50 people and wounded hundreds while at least 30 people were killed in an explosion in northern Kunduz province of Afghanistan earlier this evening.

A member of Afghanistan's NATO force and two insurgents were killed in an overnight battle at a base used by special forces in Kabul,...

A suicide attacker blew himself up near the Kabul police academy on Friday, killing at least 20 recruits, in the second major attack in...

China on Friday said that the announcement of the death of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar had made Afghan peace process more “authoritative” as the negotiating parties now know whom they should talk to.

Two more senior figures in the Taliban's Qatar political office have resigned, militants said on Thursday, as the movement began efforts for reconciliation among feuding factions following an increasingly bitter leadership struggle.

A senior Pakistani cleric widely known as the "Father of the Taliban" offered on Thursday to mediate to resolve a leadership dispute that threatens to split the insurgent movement in Afghanistan after confirmation of founder Mullah Omar's death.

The family of former Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar agreed on Tuesday to accept the decision of the insurgent group's dispute resolution council on...

Khanzada says militants had financial and material support from India

Describing terrorism as common threat for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani has said that Pakistan as a neighboring country has responsibility to cooperate with Afghanistan in fighting Taliban and other terrorist groups to reduce violence in Afghanistan.

The Afghan Taliban have released a video which they say shows members of the group pledging allegiance to the new leader, Mullah Akhtar Mansour. The...

The group has suffered a string of recent defections to IS, with some insurgents voicing disaffection with the ‘ghost leader’, who hasn’t been seen in public since the 2001 US-led invasion

FO statement says talks postponed in wake of reports regarding Mullah Omar’s death in Pakistan Taliban Shura appoints Mullah Akhtar Mansoor as new supreme leader...

Afghanistan's Taliban have captured a district in the southern province of Helmand that foreign troops struggled to secure for years, in the latest setback...

The Afghan government and Taliban representatives are set to meet again for the second round of peace talks in Murree on Friday. Media reported a...

Taliban fighters have gained ground in two provinces in northern Afghanistan, overrunning a district centre in Sar-e-Pol and seizing villages in Kunduz, local officials...

The Taliban took control of a large police base in remote northeast Afghanistan after some 100 police and border officers joined the insurgents following...