Maimana (Pajhwok): Three Afghan National Army personnel, one local uprising group member were killed and three security personnel, two local uprising group members wounded in the Taliban attack in northwestern Faryab province, an official said on...

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Taliban on Tuesday confirmed the Afghan government has started releasing of their prisoners from its jails and the group welcomed the move. President Ashraf Ghani had promised at the end of Consultative Loya on Peace to release...

PUL-I-ALAM (Pajhwok): Local officials say 20 Taliban rebels were killed in Mohammad Agha district of central Logar province, while Taliban say the people killed were civilians.

KABUL (Pajhwok): The US special envoy for Afghanistan reconciliation has rejected the Taliban supreme leader’s suggestion that the Americans seek violence in Afghanistan. “We don’t. The level of violence in Afghanistan is unacceptable and we have no...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Up to 100 Taliban insurgents includign the gruop's Red Unit’s fighters have been killed during security operations in southern Ghazni province, claims the provincial police headquarters. In a statement, the police said on Saturday...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Taliban ’s co-founder and political leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar says the rebel movement remains committed to peace in Afghanistan . Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, a rare TV interview at the start of a two-day conference in Moscow...

KABUL (Pajhwok): A 14-member Taliban delegation led by the group’s chief negotiator Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar Akhund has left for Russia from the Qatari capital Doha to attend a ceremony marking the establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and Afghanistan .

TIRINKOT(Pajhwok): After keeping closed for several days, Taliban militants have reopened the Kandahar-Uruzgan highway in the Shah Walikot district of southern Kandahar province, residents said on Thursday.

KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Residents and drivers in southern Kandahar province on Sunday claimed the Taliban had closed the Kandahar-Uruzgan highway and were not allowing anyone to commute. According to them, the Taliban have shut the highway in...