Tag: Taliban

Twenty-five Afghan policemen have been killed while attempting to escape the Taliban siege in the central province of Uruzgan, a source in the Gizab district told Sputnik on Monday. The ...

Ten police officers and 15 Taliban members were killed in clashes that are underway between the security forces and the militant group for the fourth day in a row in ...

A twin airstrike on a Taliban base in the northeastern Afghan province of Kunduz has left 30 civilian casualties, a Sputnik correspondent reported on Saturday. "One airstrike was carried out ...

The Taliban Islamist movement has attacked three police posts in the eastern province of Nangarhar, leaving eight officers killed and four more injured, a source told Sputnik on Thursday. The ...

The President of United States, Donal Trump, called off talks with the Taliban after the group's deadly attack of a U.S. Army forces in Baghram airbase, Afghanistan, yesterday. The ultraconservative ...

Four US Army soldiers were killed when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in the western part of Afghanistan. The extremist Taliban movement claimed responsibility for the attack ...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (11:20 A.M.) - Head of Afghanistan delegation and Deputy of High Peace Council Hajji Din Mohammad confirmed Afghanistan’s readiness to start a direct dialogue with Taliban, speaking on ...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (2:20 P.M.) - Militants were seen being fired upon after launching a rocket attack in the direction of Kabul's presidential palace on Tuesday, in aerial footage released by the ...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (3:30 P.M.) - The Iranian Embassy in Afghanistan issued a statement on Wednesday that denied the allegations of Tehran training the Taliban, state-owned IRNA reported. "Terrorism and extremism ...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (11:30 P.M.) - Afghan President Ashraf Ghani declared a formal end to the government's ceasefire with the Taliban, but urged militants to join peace negotiations, at a press ...