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US, Afghan forces say killed Taliban governors, fighters
Sep 15, 2019 13:24Afghan troops backed by US forces have killed two senior Taliban leaders and over three dozen fighters of the militant group in joint airstrikes conducted in northern and western regions of the war-ravaged country.
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Pakistan summons diplomats from Afghanistan, India over border incidents
Sep 15, 2019 07:21Pakistan has summoned diplomats from Afghanistan and India after several shooting incidents along two different borders killed four Pakistani soldiers and a civilian woman.
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Taliban delegation travels to Russia after talks with US collapse
Sep 14, 2019 07:18A team of negotiators from the Afghan Taliban has traveled to Russia days after the collapse of year-long negotiations between the US and the militant group.
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Taliban bomb attack kills security forces in Afghan capital after collapse of peace talks
Sep 12, 2019 11:47At least four members of Afghan security forces have been killed in a Taliban-claimed bomb explosion that rocked a Kabul district after peace talks between the US and the militant group collapsed.
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Trump: US will hit Taliban ‘with power never used before’
Sep 12, 2019 04:12US President Donald Trump has threatened to hit the Taliban harder than ever, following the collapse of peace talks between Washington and the militant group.
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Rocket explodes near US Embassy in Kabul on 9/11 anniversary
Sep 12, 2019 03:41A large explosion has rocked near the US Embassy in Afghanistan’s capital city of Kabul on the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks on the United States, but officials at the compound later declared an all-clear and reported no injuries.
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Taliban: Trump will 'soon regret' abandoning Afghan talks
Sep 10, 2019 06:55US President Donald Trump has declared as “dead” so-called peace talks with the Taliban, prompting the militant group to declare war against American forces in Afghanistan, a development that seems to only prolong the 18-year occupation of the country.
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Trump says Taliban talks dead, war back on agenda
Sep 10, 2019 03:26US President Donald Trump has declared as “dead” so-called peace talks with the Taliban, saying Washington is back at pounding the group’s positions in Afghanistan as part of its 18-year-long war in the country.
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US defends plans for Trump-Taliban meeting at Camp David
Sep 09, 2019 03:10The US has defended plans for a meeting between President Donald Trump and Taliban’s leaders at Camp David as prospects of a deal shatter between the two sides.
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Defeated foreigners must leave Afghanistan, fratricide must end: Zarif
Sep 08, 2019 15:02Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says foreign troops, who have failed in achieving their purported goal of fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, must leave South Asian country so that fratricide would end there.