KABUL: US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis arrived in Kabul on Friday to meet the new commander of NATO troops in Afghanistan and discuss progress on talks with the Taliban, despite deteriorating security…
KABUL: US Army General Scott Miller assumed command of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) forces in Afghanistan on Sunday, arriving as Washington faces growing questions over its strategy to force the Taliban…
KABUL: A Tajik or Russian plane bombed Afghanistan’s Durqad district in northeastern Takhar province on Sunday after clashes erupted near Tajikistan’s border, an Afghan government official said on Monday, reported Reuters. Khalil…
KABUL: A suicide attacker killed at least three people on Saturday by detonating explosives near the office of Afghanistan’s election commission in the eastern city of Jalalabad, where dozens of protesters had…
KABUL: The Taliban released more than 160 civilian passengers a day after they were kidnapped from three buses in northern Afghanistan but kept at least 20 soldiers and policemen as captives, an…
KABUL: An hours-long battle in the Afghan capital involving insurgent rocket attacks and military airstrikes ended Tuesday with the death of two militants, authorities said. The assault came as President Ashraf Ghani…
KABUL: Taliban insurgents kidnapped 170 passengers after stopping three buses in Afghanistan’s northern Kunduz province, a government official said on Monday. Esmatullah Muradi, a spokesman for the Kunduz governor, said the kidnapping…
KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani congratulated Afghanistan’s armed forces in Ghazni on Friday for their victory over Taliban insurgents in the strategically important city after clashes that killed at least 150 soldiers and…
CAMP DAHLKE: Captain Joe Fontana, a team leader with the US army’s 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade, is part of a new unit but he is working on problems that have been…
A Taliban attack in Northern Afghanistan on Tuesday night killed 45 Afghan security personnel KABUL: Six girls died during an explosion in Afghanistan’s Langhman province on Wednesday morning, TOLO news reported. According…
PESHAWAR: The Taliban are considering announcing a ceasefire during next week’s Eid holiday, despite heavy fighting seen over recent days in the central Afghan city of Ghazni, two senior Taliban officials said.…
KABUL: Taliban militants overran large parts of an army base in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 14 soldiers, wounding 15 and capturing dozens more in fighting over the past two days, officials…
KABUL: Afghan special forces units moved to embattled Ghazni overnight to try to beat back Taliban insurgents who have come close to overrunning the city as public anger mounted over the government’s…
KABUL: A suicide bomber detonated his explosives close to Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission’s office in Kabul on Monday, TOLO news reported. Kabul police chief’s spokesperson Hashmat Stanekzai said that at least one policeman…
KABUL: Taliban insurgents attacked police headquarters and other government buildings in Ghazni in central Afghanistan on Sunday and were threatening to seize control of the city, with the main highway now heavily…
KABUL: A delegation from the Afghan Taliban met officials in Uzbekistan during a five-day trip to the country last week to discuss issues including transport and power lines and peace in Afghanistan,…
GHAZNI: Heavily armed Taliban fighters attacked Ghazni city in central Afghanistan early on Friday, burning police checkpoints, shelling houses and business areas and seizing control of parts of the city before being beaten…
