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Car blast kills 14 in Ghazni, Taliban claim responsibility

07 Jul 2019

At least eight security personnel and six civilians were killed and over 180 people sustained injuries when Taliban attacked a government security compound on Sunday, officials said, as rival Afghan...

Taliban car bomb kills 12 in Afghanistan

07 Jul 2019

Taliban fighters killed at least eight Afghan security force members and four civilians, as well as wounding more than 50 civilians, by blowing up a car bomb in central Ghazni...

US, Taliban scramble to finalise draft on troop withdrawal

05 Jul 2019

Taliban and US negotiators are scrambling to finalize a draft agreement that will outline the withdrawal of American and NATO troops from Afghanistan and a verifiable Taliban guarantee to fight...

Taliban kill 26 pro-government militia members in Afghanistan

29 Jun 2019

Afghan officials say a Taliban attack against pro-government forces has killed at least 26 in the northern province of Baghlan. District chief Fazeluddin Muradi says that the insurgents' attack also...

US, Taliban to open Doha talks in fresh bid to end war

29 Jun 2019

A fresh round of talks between the US and the Taliban is to begin in Qatar, just days after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Washington is hoping for...

Afghan leader in Pakistan to talk ties, peace with Taliban

27 Jun 2019

The Afghan president on Thursday praised Pakistan’s efforts to advance the peace process in the region as he reached out to Islamabad for help in bringing the Taliban to the...

Momentous UAE move to empower women

23 Jun 2019

The new UAE election rule issued under the Presidential Resolution No. (1) of 2019 towards raising women’s representation in the Federal National Council (FNC) to 50 per cent with effect...

Afghan Taliban leader pledges to keep fighting until goals met

01 Jun 2019

The head of the Afghan Taliban pledged on Saturday to continue fighting until the movement’s objectives were reached and indicated it was still not ready to open talks with the...

Taliban says progress made at Afghan talks in Moscow but no breakthrough

30 May 2019

A Taliban official said on Thursday that decent progress had been made at talks with a group of senior Afghan politicians in Moscow but that there had been no breakthrough...

Six dead in suicide blast at Kabul military academy