Taliban group as part of its yearly spring offensive launched coordinated attacks on several districts of Kunar province in eastern Afghanistan Wednesday morning but fled the area after leaving 13 bodies behind, provincial police chief Abdul Habib Sayedkhil said.
The Afghan Taliban on Tuesday announced the start of their yearly spring offensive, the outfit said in a online statement.
Pakistans top foreign affairs adviser, Sartaj Aziz, said on Thursday that a four-nation group on peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan will meet this month to review the situation after the refusal of the Taliban to join the reconciliation.
Afghan insurgency and counter-insurgency have left 39 dead including a civilian in the southern and northern regions of the conflict-hit country over the past 24 hours, officials said Wednesday.
Pakistani security forces on Saturday captured senior Pakistani Taliban commander, Ahmad Mehsud,in a remote mountainous region of North Waziristan, security officials said.
A Pakistan Taliban splinter group claimed responsibility for the deadly suicide attack in Lahore that killed over 60 people and injured over 300 on Sunday.
Afghan security forces in crackdown against the Taliban outfit have killed 10 armed insurgents in the eastern Kunar province and captured a Taliban shadowy district governor in the northern Baghlan province over the past two days, officials said Wednesday.
Afghan militancy and violent incidents have claimed 16 lives including 12 militants affiliated with the Islamic State (IS) group over the past 24 hours in the country, officials said Monday.
The Afghan Taliban has refused to take part in direct peace negotiations with the Afghan government, but diplomatic efforts are underway to start the process.
Afghan militancy and counter-militancy have claimed the lives of 32 people including 19 armed insurgents and 13 security personnel across the conflict-ridden country over the past 24 hours, officials confirmed Monday.
Despite the Taliban's inflexibility regarding the peace process, the war-weary Afghans are looking with optimism toward the efforts by the Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG) to bring the militant group back to the negotiating table with the Afghan government so as to end the protracted conflict.
Pakistan has been entrusted with a task to bring 10 Taliban leaders to table for the next phase of Afghanistan reconciliation process.
Amid Taliban desperate attempt to overrun Maimana city, the capital of northern Faryab province 425 km northwest of the national capital of Kabul city, 130 Taliban rebels renounced violence and gave up fighting in the province on Sunday, Faryab provincial governor said.
More than 60 Taliban militants have been killed over the past three days as government forces launched aerial and ground operations against the armed outfit in parts of the northern Kunduz province over the weekend, police said Sunday.
About 12 persons were killed and over 40 others wounded when a suicide bomber targeted a local leader in Asadabad, capital of Afghanistan's eastern province of Kunar on Saturday, an official said.
Pakistan on Thursday said it is approaching all factions of Taliban and other groups to bring them to negotiating table for the direct peace talks with the Afghan government.
The fourth round of the key Quadrilateral meeting on the Afghan peace process and drafting of a roadmap to find a political solution to the lingering security crisis was held in Kabul on Tuesday.
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