KABUL (Pajhwok): Taliban insurgents have voiced their willingness to resume peace negotiations with the United States. A day earlier, after President Donald Trump hoped the militant movement, which had resumed informal talks with the US, would agree...
MAIMANA (Pajhwok): Taliban ’s shadow chief for the Almar district of northern Faryab province has been killed along with three other insurgents in an airstrike. In a statement, the 209 th Shaheen Military Corps said Maulvi Abdul Ghani was killed...
TIRIKONT (Pajhwok): The Taliban have long been preventing the installation of a current meter on Helmand River in Dehrawud district of central Uruzgan province on the behest of Iran, the governor alleged on Wednesday. Governor Mohammad Shafiq...
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Taliban on Tuesday termed the release of two Western hostages in return for three key rebel commanders as ‘a good omen’ and said it could help the peace process and build trust. The Taliban freed two Western hostages in southern...
JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Dozens of militants have surrendered in eastern Nangarhar province, the governor’s office said on Sunday. As many as 32 Islamic State (IS) and four Taliban fighters joined the government-initiated peace and reconciliation...
KABUL (Pajhwok): The National Security Council (NSC) has rejected reports that the government has sent a delegation abroad for talks with the Taliban . Several media outlets recently reported the government had dispatched a team to the United Arab...
KABUL (Pajhwok): A number of Wolesi Jirga or lower house members on Saturday asked the government to explain possible release of Anas Haqqani in return for two foreign professors held hostage by the Taliban . Kevin King, a 60-year-old American, and...
AIBAK (Pajhwok): Taliban militants have increased tax on trucks transporting coal from mines in Dara-i-Sauf district of northern Samangan province. Haji Raz Mohammad Moyed, Samangan provincial council head, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the Taliban...
KABUL (Pajhwok): Taliban ’s political office in Qatar says its delegation will participate in intra-Afghan talks in China. Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen tweeted China’s special representative for Afghanistan Deng Xijun met Mullah Baradar, head of...
HERAT CITY (Pajhwok): The Taliban are fighting to safeguard Pakistan ’s interests in Afghanistan , a former national security advisor (NSA) claimed on Friday. Dr. Rangin Dadfar Spanta insisted the Taliban were not fighting against the occupation of...
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Taliban on Friday rejected UNAMA’s report on civilian casualties in the increasingly deadly conflict in Afghanistan . On Thursday, the UN mission said more civilians were killed in July than in any previous one-month period...
TIRINKOT (Pajhwok): Taliban militants have allowed health officials in Uruzgan province to vaccinate children against polio disease in areas under their control, reversing an eight-month old ban. The Taliban lift ban on anti-polio campaign in...
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Taliban on Friday rejected attack on its co-founder Mullah Baradar’s home in Pakistan as false propaganda. On Thursday, the National Directorate of Security ( NDS ), claimed an armed attack on Mullah Barader’s home in Pakistan...
FARAH CITY (Pajhwok): Two key Taliban members have been killed in separate airstrikes in western Farah province, an official said on Tuesday. Mohibullah Mohib, police spokesman, said that Mullah Abdul Samad and Mullah Dawood were eliminated in air...
KABUL (Pajhwok): India has called for the involvement of all stakeholders, including the Afghan government, in the peace process. A spokesman for the Ministry of External Affairs told a weekly media briefing in New Delhi: “All processes should...
HERAT CITY (Pajhwok): Electricity pylons in western Herat province have been blown up by Taliban militants for a sixth time this solar year , local officials said Wednesday. Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) or power utility officials in Herat...
FIROZKOH (Pajhwok): Local officials on Wednesday claimed two civilians were killed and seven others injured in a Taliban attack on Laqak area on the outskirts of Firozkoh, capital of western Ghor province. Abdulhai Khatibi, Ghor governor’s spokesman...
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) on Tuesday said regional countries and the international community have once again intensified efforts to revive the Afghan peace process. MoFA spokesman Sibghatullah Ahmadi told a press...
CHARIKAR (Pajhwok): Taliban militants abducted nine election commission officials and 17 observers on the Election Day (yesterday) in central Parwan province, sources said Sunday. On Saturday, voting started at 7am and ended at 5pm under strong...
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Taliban say Russia, China and Iran support their position about their negotiations with the US. Suhail Shaheen, Taliban’s spokesman for their political office in Qatar, during a trip to China, said they traveled to Russia on...