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TOLOnews
April 26, 2018
Taliban attacked check posts in Syiah Gird, Shinwari and Shikh Ali district and clashed for several hours with security forces, but eventually they were forced to retreat, said officials. Alozai Ahmadi, a security official in Parwan province, said that during the clash two insurgents were killed and three othersÃâà...
Washington Examiner
April 26, 2018
We encourage Taliban leaders to return to Afghanistan from their foreign safe havens and work constructively for Afghanistan's future. More violence will not bring peace and security to Afghanistan.” Afghan officials countered that the Taliban insurgents can't win through force of arms, while maintaining thatÃâà...
Kansas City Star
April 24, 2018
A new wave of Taliban attacks across Afghanistan killed at least 11 Afghan soldiers and policemen on Tuesday, officials said, the latest in a particularly deadly week of assaults by militants. At least five soldiers were killed when their checkpoint was attacked by the Taliban in western Farah province,Ãâà...
WSOC Charlotte
April 23, 2018
KABUL, Afghanistan - KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghan officials say Taliban attacks on soldiers and police in western Badghis province have killed 14 troops, policemen. Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
ABC News
April 23, 2018
Taliban attacks in western Afghanistan killed 14 soldiers and policemen on Monday as Kabul residents prepared to bury their loved ones slain in a horrific bombing by the Islamic State group that targeted a voter registration center the day before, killing 57. Prayer services were held for the Kabul victims asÃâà...
New York Times
April 12, 2018
KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban insurgents overran a government headquarters in southeastern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing a district governor and the chief of security as well as at least nine others, officials said. Mohammad Arif Noori, a spokesman for the governor of Ghazni Province, said that TalibanÃâà...
Voice of America
April 7, 2018
IS Leader in Afghanistan Killed; Taliban Drug Factories Targeted ... Afghan military officials had confirmed Hekmatullah's death on Saturday, saying it happened in a strike in neighboring Jowzjan Province, an area effectively ... Hecker said the expanded strikes should send a message to Taliban leaders.
New York Times
April 3, 2018
Officials would not publicly say how many of those were civilians, but one senior security official said that about 35 percent of the dead were civilians ... the news media surveillance footage of armed men at the site of the attack in the lead-up to the bombing, as well as grainy pictures of Taliban leadersÃâà...
BBC News
March 31, 2018
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has returned to her home town in Pakistan for the first time since she was shot there by Taliban militants, security officials say. Ms Yousafzai, 20, was shot in the head by a gunman for campaigning for female education in 2012. Her family's home region of SwatÃâà...
Times of Central Asia
March 31, 2018
BISHKEK (TCA) — Russia's special envoy to Afghanistan has dismissed claims by the Pentagon that Moscow has provided arms to the Taliban during its 16-year war against U.S. forces and the Afghan government, RFE/RL reported. Zamir Kabulov said at a news briefing in Moscow on March 29 that theÃâà...
New York Times
March 28, 2018
The offer on the table, made by President Ashraf Ghani, included recognition of the Taliban as a legitimate political party, passports for their officials, an office in Kabul or somewhere else they preferred, the release of Taliban prisoners and efforts to remove their leaders from international sanctions lists.
Voice of America
March 22, 2018
Top Afghan officials see a genuine chance for peace with elements of the Taliban and the Haqqani network but worry the latest effort at reconciliation could be undermined, both by internal rivals and by Pakistan and other foreign influences. Afghan officials believe those insurgent leaders who seek to makeÃâà...
Department of Defense
March 20, 2018
The biggest effect of the announcement was the realization among government leaders and the Afghan population that “America's not leaving,” he said. That changed the calculus in the country, he added, with government leaders and forces taking new heart and the Taliban realizing they could not justÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 9, 2018
The Pakistani Taliban has confirmed the death of the son of leader Mullah Fazlullah in a suspected U.S. drone strike on March 6. ... Pakistani intelligence officials said Abdullah was killed in the Chawgam area in the eastern province of Kunar on March 6 when a training camp for suicide bombers near theÃâà...
Channel NewsAsia
December 31, 1999
HERAT, Afghanistan: Five people kidnapped from a voter registration centre in a largely Taliban-controlled area of Afghanistan were freed on Thursday (Apr 19), officials said. Gunmen attacked the facility in the central province of Ghor on Tuesday, abducting three employees of the Independent ElectionÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
December 31, 1999
Former Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor reportedly visited the Gulf emirate for fundraising a few months before his assassination in May 2016, in a US air raid in Pakistan, the Washington Post reported. In an investigation published on Saturday, the Post said US intelligence officialsÃâà...
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