Personnel of Afghan law enforcement agencies had captured three terrorists in Kandahar city, capital of southern province of Kandahar, the National Directorate for Security (NDS) said on Thursday.
At least six Afghan civilians were shot dead by armed men along a highway after militants intercepted three vehicles in the country's northern province of Kunduz on Tuesday, a local police said.
Afghan government forces have increased pressure on anti-government militants since the death of Taliban supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor as armed insurgents have been killed across the militancy-plagued country over the past week.
Pakistan officially confirmed the death of the former Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour for the first time on Thursday, five days after the American drone strike that killed him on Pakistani soil, raising diplomatic tensions.
The United States of America has extended an offer to new Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada for peace process and hoped he would seize the opportunity.
The selection of a hard-line cleric as the new Taliban chief on Wednesday all but dashes U.S. President Barack Obama's hopes for opening peace talks before he leaves office, one of his top foreign policy goals, current and former U.S. defense and intelligence officials said.
Taliban militants confirmed the death of their supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor on Wednesday, and also announced a less-known religious scholar, Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada as the new leader of the insurgent group.
Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor had been killed by a U.S. military drone inside the Pakistani town of Dalbandin in the southern Balochistan province on Saturday, with the Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) and U.S. President Barack Obama both confirming his death.
U.S. President Barack Obama confirmed on Monday that the leader of the Afghan Taliban had been killed in an American air strike, an attack likely to trigger another leadership tussle in a militant movement already riven by internal divisions.
Visiting U.S. President Barack Obama confirmed on Monday the death of Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor in a statement issued in Vietnamese capital Hanoi on Monday.
Afghan Taliban top leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was reportedly killed by a U.S. drone strike launched at a small town in Pakistan's southwest province of Balochistan along the Pak-Afghan border, reported local Urdu TV channel ARY on Sunday.
Cracks further appeared within Taliban rank as infighting between supporters of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor and his opponents headed by Mullah Mohammad Rasoul have killed 15 fighters from both sides in the western region of Afghanistan since Sunday, officials said Tuesday.
As senior officials from Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the United States are scheduled to meet in Islamabad soon to discuss prospects for the Afghan peace process, Pakistan believes political negotiation is still the best option to find a solution to the protracted problem.
About 29 militants were killed in two separate airstrikes in northern Afghanistan on Monday, authorities said.
Up to 16 militants were killed and nearly two dozen others injured as aircrafts pounded Taliban hideouts in Pasawand district of the western Ghor province on Sunday.
Afghanistan plans to take Pakistan to the UN security council over its continuing support to the Taliban, which Kabul says is destabilizing their country. Hekmat Khalil Karzai, deputy foreign minister told TOI in an exclusive chat, that after the deadly Taliban attack in Kabul last week, the Ghani government is exploring the UNSC option.
Afghan Taliban negotiators have arrived in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad to discuss possibility of talks with the Afghan government, sources familiar with the visit said on Monday.
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