Tag: Taliban

The early morning attack in Sari Pul province highlights Afghanistan’s fragile security situation, with local forces facing a persistent Taliban insurgency as NATO winds down its military presence.

Taliban insurgents have stepped up attacks against Afghan security forces in a bid to undermine the Western-backed government as foreign combat troops prepare to withdraw from Afghanistan by the end of the year.

Earlier on August 30, at least 32 suspected militants had been killed and three militant hideouts were destroyed by army gunship helicopters in a remote area of Bangidar in North Waziristan

A breakaway faction of Pakistan Taliban, whose militants had pumped bullets into her two years ago, has criticised the choice of Malala Yousafzai for...

A suicide car bomber killed at least five people in an attack that targeted a former district police chief in southern Helmand province on...

This is the third drone attack in the past 36 hours. At least eight people were killed and four others injured in a drone strike in the Bari Mail area of Shawal in North Waziristan late on October 6

After Wednesday’s blasts, the Taliban said they were sending “a clear message to the stooge government that signed the slave pact, and we will step up our attacks after this”.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for both blasts and said at least 20 soldiers were killed, but the insurgents regularly exaggerate death tolls after attacks.

A series of coordinated attacks in the last week have focused on Ajristan district in the strategically important province of Ghazni, after recent offensives in Kandahar, Helmand and Logar.

Taliban have beheaded 12 civilians and torched some 60 homes in an assault on security forces in the eastern Ghazni province, an Afghan official...

At last 38 Taliban militants were killed and three others were injured following military operations by Afghan national security forces in various provinces of...

When asked a question regarding the political situation in Pakistan, Bajwa said that the army was not involved in politics nor was it supporting a particular faction during the current crisis.

Insurgents detonate truck bombs and fire rocket-propelled grenades outside office of Afghanistan’s spy agency and a police compound, over 150 injured Taliban insurgents detonated truck...

Military sources said that following his recovery Prof Ajmal Khan was handed over to his family.

The United States has imposed sanctions on four extremists including two Taliban members and two other men that it accuses of ties with al...

Two different factions of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attacks, and said they were a response to the military’s ongoing assault on militant hideouts in North Waziristan tribal area.

Afghan Taliban fighters stormed a police checkpoint overnight in southern Afghan province of Helmand, killing four policemen, an official said. Deputy district Governor Mohammad Rassoul...