LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): Local security sources on Monday claimed a bomb making factory of Taliban militants has been destroyed in a foreign forces attack in Naad Ali district of southern Helmand province. A statement from 215 Maiwand Military Corps in...

WASHINGTON (Pajhwok): Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Wednesday said the US believed there was a way forward for the Taliban to reconcile in an Afghan-led, Afghan-owned reconciliation process. Mattis told reporters travelling with him to India: “We...

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Nearly a dozen Taliban militants, including their commander, have joined the peace process and shunned insurgency in eastern Nangarhar province, an official said Monday.

CHARIKAR (Pajhwok): Five Taliban militants were killed and three others wounded during a security forces’ operation in Koh-i-Safi district of central Parwan province, an official said Friday. The operation involving forces from Parwan and the...

HERAT CITY (Pajhwok): Local officials on Wednesday said Taliban militants had cut off the supply of electricity imported from Turkmenistan to western Herat province. Jilani Farhad, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the insurgents...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Afghanistan national security advisor (NSA) Hanif Atmar on Wednesday called on Russia to exert pressure on the Taliban to arrive at the negotiating table.

KABUL (Pajhwok): The High Peace Council (HPC), the Afghanistan Ulema Council (AUC), the Grand National Council of Jihadi Leaders and Afghan Women ’s Association on Saturday asked the government and the Taliban to agree on a truce during Eid-ul-Adha...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Free media supporting group NAI on Thursday said torching media installations and threatening local journalists against working in Ghazni province was against ‘the freedom of expression’ and Islamic and the country’s laws. Abdul...

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Taliban on Wednesday announced cancelling their security cooperation with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for what they said the organization’s noncooperation with Taliban’s inmates. The Taliban’s move comes...