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The Taliban are not willing to talk to the Afghan government, however they are ready for negotiations with the United States, the US special envoy says. “The Taliban are certainly ready to talk to the United States. But we’re insisting that they also need to talk to the government of Afghanistan,” the US Special […]
US Special Representative Ambassador James Dobbins arrived in Islamabad on Tuesday for talks with Pakistan leaders on Afghan reconciliation process, officials said. A Foreign Ministry official said that the US envoy will meet senior Pakistani officials to discuss cooperation in the Qatar peace process. Mr Dobbins is scheduled to call on Prime Minister […]
A heavily armed group of Afghan Taliban launched a brazen attack on security forces near the President palace early Tuesday that lead to a several hour firefight, officials and witnesses said. Afghan officials claimed that they killed all the attackers. Reports said that President Hamid Karzai was in the presidential palace at the time of […]
Pakistan welcomes the opening of an Afghan Taliban office in Qatar for the purpose of bringing peace to Afghanistan, the Foreign Ministry has said. Taliban Tuesday opened a political office in the Qatari capital, Doha, to help start talks on ending the 12-year-old conflict. Top Taliban negotiators said they wanted a political solution that would […]
A Taliban infiltrator killed at least six Afghan police men in southern Afghanistan early Thursday, officials said. The incident occurred in Helmand Province’s Musa Qala District. The Taliban claimed that an infiltrated policeman killed 10 police soldiers, including two commanders, and joined them. The head of Musa Qala District, Musa Kalim, told Afghan […]
Afghan Taliban Friday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack and killing seven Georgian soldiers in southern parts of the country. ISAF says that as a result of a suicide attack in southern Afghanistan some six ISAF soldiers were killed, but the Georgian army announced that seven Georgian soldiers were killed as a result of […]
Afghan Taliban Monday confirmed that their leaders paid two visits to Iran on the invitation of Iranian government. Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousaf Ahmadi confirmed the visit a days after Iranian Foreign Ministry denied any such visit. A delegation led by the head of political office of the Taliban in Qatar, Tayyeb Agha, […]
Afghan Taliban have captured three Americans and two Turkish engineers after their helicopter made emergency landing in Logar province, officials and Afghan media say. The head of the Logar Provincial Council said that the Taliban captured five foreign nationals and four Afghans who were travelling in a helicopter in Azra District of Logar Province […]
Foreign troops Monday claimed arrest of a senior Lashkar-e Tayyiba leader and detaining a number of other insurgents during an operation in Andar district, Ghazni province. The leader is alleged to have planned and participated in multiple attacks against Afghan and coalition forces throughout Kunar, Kandahar and Ghazni provinces. He is known to have […]
The government on Saturday banned former President Pervez Musharraf from leaving abroad a day after a court restrained him from going abroad, officials said. Musharraf returned to Pakistan on Sunday after over four-year self-exile and is now facing several cases including his government’s failure to provide security to former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who was […]
Afghan officials say that clashes between the Taliban bombers and Afghan security forces in Jalalabad city of eastern Nangarhar Province ended after three hours on Tuesday. The Nangarhar police said that a group of eight suicide bombers carried out an attack on the building of the Rapid Reaction Police Unit early morning, saying that […]
Afghan Taliban have killed their own commander who had joined the government in southern province, media reported on Wednesday. The local police commander, Mullah Zainuddin known as Mullah Zaino, was killed and his two guards injured in a mine explosion in Panjwai District of Kandahar Province, the Afghan Islamic Press reported. The head […]
