A key Taliban commander and close aide to former Taliban supreme leader and founder has asked the group’s current supreme leader Mawlavi Haibatullah Akhundzada to cut ties with Pakistan. The top Taliban leader, Syed Mohammad Tayyab Agha, reportedly asked Akhundzada ...
Read More »Afghan Taliban brief Pakistan about talks with Kabul: Officials
Three senior Afghan Taliban members traveled to Pakistan this week and held a series of meetings with Pakistani officials in Islamabad, mainly to brief them about the recent talks held in Qatar between the Afghan Taliban and Kabul, a senior ...
Read More »Taliban demanded prisoners release, blacklist removal in Qatar talks
KABUL: The Taliban delegation demanded the release of prisoners and removal of the group’s leaders from the UN blacklist during the informal talks held in Qatar, it has been reported. The group also demanded that the Taliban group should be ...
Read More »Stanikzai met Mullah Omar’s brother as secret Afghan talks revive in Qatar
KABUL: The Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security (NDS) Chief, Masoom Stanikzai has met with the brother of Mullah Mohammad amid reports secret peace talks have revived in Qatar. According to the sources in Taliban group, quoted in a report ...
Read More »Ready to end fight if foreign troops exit guaranteed: Taliban splinter group
KABUL: A splinter group of the Taliban in Afghanistan has said the group is ready to end fighting if the exit of the foreign troops from the country is guaranteed. The group led by Mullah Mohammad Rasool, an arch rival ...
Read More »Pressure growing on Taliban to join peace talks, ex-top Taliban leader
KABUL: A former top Taliban leader has said the group is under pressure to revive peace talks with the Afghan government months after the group rejected calls by the Afghan government to participate in direct peace talks. Agha Jan Motasim ...
Read More »Taliban chief instruct fighters to adopt softer approach in his Eid message
KABUL: The Taliban supreme leader Mawlavi Hibatullah Akhundzada has instructed the group’s fighters to adopt softer approach in his message released on the occasion of Eid-ul-Adha. The statement by Akhundzada comes in contrast to the brutal approach of insurgency adopted ...
Read More »Afghanistan fighting the forces of devil and darkness: Abdullah
The Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah said Afghanistan is fighting the forces of devil and darkness as he insisted on increasing support to the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF). In his speech during a conference on the Future ...
Read More »Taliban overrun Paktia’s Janikhel district in eastern Afghanistan
GARDEZ: Taliban have overrun the Janikhel district of southeastern Paktia province after fierce fighting with security forces, local officials confirmed on Saturday. The militants also seized two key security posts in the embattled town near the Pakistanborder after hours of ...
Read More »Reject ISIS and support Taliban group, Al-Qaeda leader tell supporters
The leader of the Al-Qaeda terrorist network Ayman Al-Zawahiri has called on supporters to reject the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group and support the Taliban group in Afghanistan. Al-Zawahiri made the call in his latest video ...
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