Taliban

Talks at impasse as Taliban seek direct negotiations with US

Mar 04, 2018 16:03

The Afghan government's surprising new peace offer to Taliban is immediately running into a wall as the militants show no sign of shifting from their demand that talks for a conflict-ending compromise take place with Washington, not Kabul, a media report says.
Taliban kill 4 paramilitary soldiers in Pakistan

Feb 14, 2018 14:02

Four paramilitary soldiers have been killed when Taliban militants opened fire on a patrol in Pakistan's western city of Quetta, police say.
Taliban invites US senator for ‘mutual talks’ in Doha

Feb 12, 2018 13:10

Taliban has invited a US senator for “mutual talks” in the Qatari capital Doha, where the so-called Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has an office.
Afghanistan's president hints talks with Taliban possible

Feb 04, 2018 05:18

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has admitted that Kabul would accept talks with certain elements of the Taliban as the government finds itself under mounting public and international pressure to improve security in the wake of recent major acts of terror in the capital.
Taliban-claimed bombing kills 11 soldiers in northern Pakistan

Feb 04, 2018 03:05

At least 11 soldiers, including an army officer, have lost their lives and 13 others sustained injuries when an assailant detonated his explosive vest in Pakistan’s northern district of Swat, police say.
Afghanistan says it has evidence attackers trained in Pakistan

Feb 01, 2018 13:53

Senior Afghan authorities say they have given neighboring Pakistan evidence showing that the militants who carried out a recent series of deadly attacks were trained on Pakistani soil.
Taliban openly active in 70% of Afghan territory: Study

Jan 31, 2018 10:27

A new study finds that the Taliban militants are openly active in 70 percent of Afghanistan’s soil, fully controlling four percent of the country and having presence in another 66 percent.
At least 3 soldiers killed in Taliban attack on checkpoint in eastern Afghanistan

Dec 09, 2017 11:46

At least three soldiers have been killed after Taliban militants launched an attack on a checkpoint in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Ghazni.
Pakistani Taliban attack university campus, 11 wounded so far

Dec 01, 2017 04:13

Pakistani Taliban militants have attacked the campus of an agriculture university in the northwestern city of Peshawar, wounding at least 11 people.
Roadside bomb kills five anti-Taliban fighters in Pakistan

Nov 30, 2017 16:06

A roadside bomb has claimed the lives of at least five anti-Taliban fighters and wounded two others in an area of the troubled northwestern Pakistan, intelligence sources say.