Taliban fighters on Sunday captured two more provincial capitals as they gained ground in their fight to take over Afghanistan’s…
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The Afghan president on Monday blamed the American troops’ speedy pullout for the worsening violence in his country and said…
In the midst of growing global concerns over the Taliban making rapid advances in Afghanistan, India on Thursday said it…
Senior Afghan leaders are in the Middle Eastern state of Qatar talking peace with the Taliban, whose leader on Sunday…
The UN humanitarian chief in Afghanistan appealed for USD 850 million Thursday to help the war-torn country cope with the…
Juventus manager, Maurizio Sarri has said he was labeled a “Taliban” because he stuck to his own style of football.…
Oritsefemi (a.k.a ‘Musical Taliban’) seems to be very proud of his two grown up daughters. The Double Wahala crooner shared a photo of…
A bomb tore through a bustling fruit and vegetable market in Islamabad Wednesday, killing at least 20 people, police said, the latest violence to hit government peace talks with the Taliban. The blast took place around 8:00 am (0300 GMT) at the wholesale…
Afghan voters turned out in large numbers Saturday, braving Taliban threats, to choose a successor to President Hamid Karzai in the country’s first democratic transfer of power as US-led forces wind down their 13-year war. Long queues formed outside…
Gunfire and explosions rocked Kabul Friday as Taliban militants attacked a guesthouse used by an anti-landmine aid group, the latest violence to hit the city ahead of next weekend’s presidential election. At least three Afghans were wounded in the attack…
Eight people were killed and 26 injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a hotel in a Shiite…
A total of 21 people, including 13 foreigners, died in a Taliban suicide assault on a popular restaurant in Kabul,…
Two Britons were among the 21 people killed in a Taliban attack on a popular restaurant in Kabul, the Foreign Office in London said on Saturday. “We can confirm the deaths of two British nationals in Afghanistan on the 17th of January,” a spokeswoman…
A Taliban suicide attacker detonated an explosives-packed car next to a NATO military convoy in Kabul on Friday, killing three NATO personnel and injuring at least four civilian passers-by, officials said. The blast in the Afghan capital left the twisted…
After a five-year wait, Mohammad Janis Shinwari is relieved to be in the United States, safe from the threats of the Taliban. But as a former interpreter for US troops in Afghanistan, Shinwari fears for the lives of his colleagues back home, who are…
Taliban insurgents fighting against the US-backed Afghan government expressed their support on Monday for President Hamid Karzai’s refusal to sign a security pact with Washington. Karzai is locked in a public dispute with the US over the security deal…