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Taliban attacks kill 23 police officers in northern Afghanistan
Jan 01, 2019 09:52Taliban militants kill at least 23 police officers, as armed group storms security posts in Northern Sar-e-Pul Province.
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Iran confirms hosting Taliban delegation for peace talks
Dec 31, 2018 12:55Iran says it has hosted a delegation from Taliban to discuss possible ways to end hostilities in Afghanistan.
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Taliban rejects Afghan government’s offer of peace talks
Dec 30, 2018 09:01The Taliban militant group has rejected a call by the Afghan government for formal peace talks next month in Saudi Arabia.
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German troops may leave Afghanistan if US forces withdraw: Report
Dec 29, 2018 03:43Former German Defense Chief General Harald Kujat has warned that a probable American military withdrawal from Afghanistan may jeopardize German troops and force them to leave.
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Taliban to US: Leave Afghanistan or face Soviet-style defeat
Dec 27, 2018 13:49The Taliban militant group has warned the United States it would face the same fate as the Soviet Union in the 1980s if it did not leave violence-wracked Afghanistan.
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Iran eyes close military ties with Afghanistan
Dec 27, 2018 03:25Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani expressed the country’s readiness to enhance military and defense cooperation with Afghanistan.
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“Iran talking to Taliban ‘to aid Afghan security’”
Dec 26, 2018 08:05Iran’s top security official has confirmed that the country has been holding talks with the Afghan Taliban in coordination with Kabul to help relieve rampant insecurity in Afghanistan.
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Pakistan foreign minister in China discusses US troop pullout from Afghanistan
Dec 25, 2018 16:45The foreign ministers of China and Pakistan have discussed "new changes" to the situation in Afghanistan amid plans by the United States to withdraw about half of its 14,000 troops based in the war-torn country.
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Blast, gunfire rock govt. compound in ongoing attack in Afghan capital
Dec 24, 2018 10:30Several people have been injured as militants detonated a car packed with explosives before storming a Kabul government compound in an ongoing attack in the Afghan capital.
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Afghanistan: Ghani replaces top security chiefs amid rising Taliban insurgency
Dec 23, 2018 15:16Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani has replaced two of the country's top security chiefs with staunch anti-Taliban officials in the wake of intensified assaults by the militant group across the war-ravaged country.