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Taliban likely to miss Afghan peace meeting, says host Uzbekistan
Mar 12, 2018 14:56The Taliban is likely to miss an Afghan peace conference at which participants are set to call for direct talks between the militant group and the government of President Ashraf Ghani, the Foreign Ministry in Uzbekistan says.
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Taliban kill 18 soldiers in Afghanistan's Farah province
Mar 10, 2018 14:17At least 18 Afghan soldiers have been killed by Taliban militants in Afghanistan’s western province of Farah.
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Talks at impasse as Taliban seek direct negotiations with US
Mar 04, 2018 16:03The 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.
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Taliban kill 4 paramilitary soldiers in Pakistan
Feb 14, 2018 14:02Four paramilitary soldiers have been killed when Taliban militants opened fire on a patrol in Pakistan's western city of Quetta, police say.
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Taliban invites US senator for ‘mutual talks’ in Doha
Feb 12, 2018 13:10Taliban has invited a US senator for “mutual talks” in the Qatari capital Doha, where the so-called Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has an office.
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Afghanistan's president hints talks with Taliban possible
Feb 04, 2018 05:18Afghan 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.
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Taliban-claimed bombing kills 11 soldiers in northern Pakistan
Feb 04, 2018 03:05At 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.
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Afghanistan says it has evidence attackers trained in Pakistan
Feb 01, 2018 13:53Senior 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.
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Taliban openly active in 70% of Afghan territory: Study
Jan 31, 2018 10:27A 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.
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At least 3 soldiers killed in Taliban attack on checkpoint in eastern Afghanistan
Dec 09, 2017 11:46At least three soldiers have been killed after Taliban militants launched an attack on a checkpoint in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Ghazni.