Tag: Taliban
Airstrikes kill 16 militants
At least 16 militants have been confirmed killed as fighting planes struck Taliban hideouts in Balkh district of the northern…
US resumes talks with Taliban in Doha
The United States resumed talks with the Taliban in Qatar Saturday, a US source said, three months after President Donald…
US-Taliban talks back on track, says Trump
President Donald Trump said Thursday the US and the Taliban insurgents, are talking to make a deal again, two months…
Air raids kills 21 militants in Afghanistan
At least 21 militants were on Friday killed in the northern and eastern region of Afghanistan as the Defense Ministry…
Afghan defies Taliban to vote again after they cut finger in 2014
The Taliban cut off Safiullah Safi's right forefinger for voting in 2014. That did not stop the businessman from doing…
Taliban poll warning: Pakistan shuts border crossings with Afghanistan
Pakistan on Friday closed all border crossings with Afghanistan in a bid to improve security ahead of presidential elections in…
Explosion hits eastern Afghanistan during President Ghani’s rally
Casualties were feared after an explosion struck an election campaign rally in Afghanistan’s eastern Parwan province on Tuesday.
Taliban to end 18-year old war with U.S
The Taliban is willing to sign the “finalized agreement with the U.S.,” the militant organization’s deputy head of political office…
Mercurial Trump declares Taliban peace deal ‘dead’
Mercurial President Donald Trump on Monday said that US peace talks with the Taliban are over and announced that the…
Taliban threatens to kill more Americans after Trump snub
President Donald Trump’s decision to cancel Afghan peace talks will cost more American lives, the Taliban said on Sunday while…
6 Afghan journalists “mistakenly kidnapped” by Taliban
The Taliban have kidnapped six Afghan journalists working for private and government media organisations in eastern Paktia province, government officials…
U.S close to a deal with Taliban, Kabul regime in the dark
The US and the Taliban are "close" to a deal that would see the Pentagon slash troop numbers in Afghanistan,…
US nears peace deal with Taliban
The United States is hoping for a breakthrough as talks with the Taliban resumed in Doha on Saturday in a…
Suspected terrorist sympathiser yanked off Middle East-bound plane
Officials said on Friday that Federal authorities removed a Bronx man off an airplane bound for the Middle-East after learning…
Taliban kills 8 Afghan soldiers, 4 civilians in Ghazni bombing
Taliban Islamist fighters killed at least eight Afghan security force members and four civilians, as well as wounding more than…