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Taliban ban women from leaving home alone, force men to grow beards in cap
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Takhar [Afghanistan], July 2 (ANI): Taliban have reportedly issue news rules and regulations in recently captured districts of Afghan Takhar province, including forbiding women from leaving home without a male relative and forcing men to grow beards.
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Afghanistan: Taliban captured 700 military vehicles as fighting intensifie
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 2 (ANI): The Taliban have captured as many as 700 trucks and Humvees from the Afghan security forces as well as dozens of armoured vehicles and artillery systems in June alone, according to an investigative report.
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Afghan advisor, Russian security council chief discuss Afghanistan situati
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], July 2 (ANI): Afghanistan National Security Advisor (NSA) Hamdullah Mohib held talks with Secretary of the Security Council (SCS) of the Russian Federation, Nikolai Patrushev in Moscow on Friday and discussed the security situation in light of the withdrawal of troops in Afg
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India concerned with increased violence in Afghanistan: MEA
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 2 (ANI): India on Friday expressed concerns over increased violence in Afghanistan and said that the government has issued a security advisory for its nationals in the war-torn country.
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International Crisis Group urges Pakistan to pressure Taliban to reduce vi
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 1 (ANI): The Brussels-based group International Crisis Group (ICG) on Thursday urged Islamabad to pressure the Taliban into reducing violence in Afghanistan.
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14 killed in Taliban-led attacks in northern Afghanistan
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul (Afghanistan) July 2 (ANI): Four police personnel and ten local pro-government militiamen were killed in two separate Taliban-led attacks in northern Afghanistan on Thursday night.
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June deadliest month in Afghanistan's ongoing conflict in 2 decades
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul (Afghanistan) July 2 (ANI): Afghan National Security and Defense Forces (ANDSF) have killed over 6,000 Taliban terrorists in June, which was the deadliest month of conflict in the country, claimed authorities over here.
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Last US troops to leave Afghan's Bagram Air Base today as withdrawal nears
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 2 (ANI): The last contingent of US troops are expected to leave the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan on Friday, said a senior defense official, marking the end of the American presence at the compound that became the centre of military power in the country.
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Blinken discusses Afghan peace with Uzbek, Tajik counterparts
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], July 2 (ANI): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday discussed peace and cooperation in Afghanistan with his Uzbek and Tajik counterparts during separate bilateral meetings in Washington.
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Afghanistan sees 45 pc surge in poppy cultivation, drug smuggling
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 2 (ANI): Afghanistan has witnessed a 45 per cent surge in poppy cultivation and drug smuggling this year when compared to the same period last year, the Afghan deputy minister of counter-narcotics said on Thursday.
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4 injured in mortar round explosion in Afghanistan's Balkh province
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Mazar-i-Sharif [Afghanistan], July 1 (ANI): Four persons were injured on Thursday in an explosion at the residence of Atta Mohammad Noor, the former governor of Afghanistan's Balkh province.
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Afghan airstrikes kill 33 Taliban terrorists in northern Balkh province
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Mazar-i-Sharif [Afghanistan], July 1 (ANI/Xinhua): As fighter planes struck Taliban gatherings in Kaldar and Shortepa districts of Afghanistan's northern Balkh province on Wednesday, a total of 33 terrorists were confirmed dead, army spokesman in the northern region Mohammad Hanif Rezai said
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