Tag: Taliban

KABUL: Pakistan Ambassador to Kabul Zahid Nasrullah Khan denied Islamabad’s support to Taliban, said that his country is not supporting the group. Although a number of Afghan political...

Nearly 170 killed as violence rocks chaotic polls across Afghanistan, polling extended in some constituencies till today Taliban suicide bomber kills 15 in...

KABUL: Afghanistan postponed legislative elections in Kandahar province on Friday, after a Taliban-claimed attack on a US-Afghan security meeting killed a powerful police chief...

KABUL: From a university student to a middle-aged housewife, Afghans planning to vote in the October 20 parliamentary election say they are willing to...

KABUL:  Taliban militants killed at least 22 security forces, including a district police chief, in separate attacks on security checkpoints in two Afghan provinces,...

WASHINGTON: The US envoy for Afghanistan peace efforts met with Taliban representatives in Qatar on Friday as President Donald Trump’s administration pushed to find...

KABUL: The Taliban have reinstated a security guarantee in Afghanistan for the International Committee for Red Cross (ICRC), two months after withdrawing safe passage...

  KABUL: The Taliban on Monday directed Afghans to boycott upcoming parliamentary elections and demanded a complete withdrawal of foreign forces as the only solution...

KABUL: Senior US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad on Sunday reached Kabul for talks with Afghan leaders in his first trip to the Afghan capital since...

KABUL: At least 10 policemen were killed in clashes with Taliban fighters in the central Afghan province of Wardak, officials said on Sunday, amid...

KABUL: Heavily armed Taliban fighters destroyed bridges near the central city of Ghazni on Saturday, closing the main highway between the capital Kabul and...

WASHINGTON: The US is unlikely to revoke the suspension of aid to Pakistan until it sees substantial progress against terrorists and their safe havens,...

PESHAWAR: A Taliban spokesman denied on Friday that representatives met an Afghan government delegation this week, after sources in the movement told Reuters that...

--US official says 'we have still not found a way to work more closely with Pakistan to ensure Taliban come to negotiation table'   United States...

--Taliban leader says Afghan delegation requested them for help in conducting peaceful elections   PESHAWAR: Representatives from the Taliban met an Afghan government delegation in Saudi...

--Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj walks out of SAARC meet before Pakistan’s statement --Qureshi says India’s unbecoming behaviour hindering regional connectivity --Says war is not an...

WASHINGTON: The United States used an F-35 jet against a Taliban target in Afghanistan earlier on Thursday, marking the first US combat use of...