Peace talks between the Afghan government and the radical Hizb-e-Islami Afghanistan party led by Gulbudin Hekmatyar have reportedly broken down after three months following the latter insisted on new impossible-to-meet demands such as foreign forces pulling out of the aid-dependent country.
A Pakistani Taliban militant wanted for his role in a school massacre has died in a US drone strike in Afghanistan, Pakistani and American military officials said on Wednesday.
Afghan government has put in place all necessary security measures ahead of Eid-ul-Fitar, the second annual religious festival to mark the end of Muslims holy month Ramadan.
New Taliban leader Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada on Saturday issued his maiden message as supreme leader, calling on the United States and its allies to withdrawal all its forces from the militancy-plagued country.
Two explosions hit an Afghan police convoy in the western part of Kabul on Thursday, leaving more than 20 people dead, sources said.
The situation in Afghanistan seems different as militants have intensified activities since the beginning of the holy month.
After terrorists killed more than 100 Pakistani school children 18 months ago, the country’s leaders vowed to crack down on religious seminaries that are recruiting grounds for domestic and international Islamist militant groups.
Up to 165 Taliban militants have given up fighting in the northern Faryab and Jauzjan provinces over the past couple of days as military crackdowns against armed oppositions in the said provinces is underway over the past couple of months.
The three separate blasts that claimed 26 lives inclduing two suicide bombers and 14 Nepalese nationals and injured more than 50 others in Afghanistan on Monday have been widely condemned.
The key commander of Taliban militants in the northern Baghlan province with Pul-e-Khumri as its capital was captured on Sunday, provincial governor Abdul Satar Bariz said.
A Taliban commander was killed among eight militants as a pilotless plane targeted a Taliban hideout in Dasht-e-Archi district of the northern Kunduz province Saturday night, an army spokesman in the province Ghulam Hazrat Karimi said Sunday.
A total of 13 Taliban militants were killed after Afghan special police force launched a night raid operation in eastern Logar province overnight, the Interior Ministry said on Monday.
Afghans have registered cases of kidnapping of passengers by armed militants over the past one year which means Afghan Taliban adopted a new tactic to subdue Afghans, political analysts said.
The Afghan forces have obviously adopted an aggressive stance against Taliban in the northern region as more than three dozen armed militants have been killed since Friday, officials said Saturday.
Unknown armed militants intercepted a bus in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz on Wednesday and 47 passengers were taken to an unknown location.
Pakistan will raise the issue of U.S. drone attacks in the United Nations as they are against the country's sovereignty, the country's top foreign affairs adviser Sartaj Aziz said on Thursday.
Afghan forcesrs have set free nine abducted passengers from the clutch of Taliban in the northern Kunduz province and the operation goes on to secure the safe release of remaining passengers, an army spokesman in the northern region Nasratullah Jamshidi said Thursday.
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