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Pak helicopter crash-lands in Afghanistan, crew taken hostage by Taliban
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad, Aug.5 (ANI): A helicopter of Pakistan's Punjab province government crash-landed in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, following which the Taliban insurgents took the crew hostage before setting the helicopter on fire.
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US air strikes doing more harm than good, says former Afghan president
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
London, Aug. 4 (ANI): Former Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai has said international efforts to help Afghan Security Forces regain control over the territory taken by the Taliban are doing more harm than good.
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Pak Govt's helicopter crash lands in Afghanistan; Taliban takes crew
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad/Kabul, Aug. 4 (ANI): A Pakistan's Punjab Government Mi-17 helicopter crash landed on Thursday in Afghanistan's Logar province, where Taliban militants took the crew hostage before setting the helicopter on fire.
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Kabul should decide if it wants peace talks or not: Taliban
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad, Aug. 4 (ANI): Confirming that the Taliban recently visited China seeking their role in the peace talks, a senior Afghan Taliban leader Agha Jan Mutasim said that it was now up to Kabul to decide whether it wanted to come to the negotiation table.
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US designates Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, Abrini on terrorist list
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington, Aug. 4(ANI): The United States State Department has designated Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), a splinter group of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Mohamed Abrini, a member of the Europe-based Islamic State as Specially Designated Global Terrorists.
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China double deals Taliban and Afghanistan government
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Hong Kong, Aug.3 (ANI): The Chinese leadership has come in for harsh criticism from the Afghan government for having invited a Taliban delegation to meet with Chinese officials in Beijing last month.
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Taliban executes 19-year-old girl in Afghanistan
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul, Aug. 2 (ANI): Taliban militants publicly executed a 19-year-old girl in northern Sar-e-Pul province on charges of abandoning her family over a domestic issue.
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Most IS men in Afghanistan are Pakistan Taliban fighters, says US Commande
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington, Aug. 1 (ANI): Commander of the US and the NATO forces in Afghanistan Gen. John W. Nicholson has said almost 70 per cent of the fighters of the militant Islamic State (IS) group in Afghanistan are Pakistani Taliban who joined IS after having been forced out of their country.
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Taliban claims responsibility for Kabul explosion, gunfight underway
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C., Aug 1 (ANI): The Taliban has claimed responsibility for explosion that rocked a hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan early Monday morning and a fierce gunfight is underway between security forces and the assailants.
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Women gang-raped by Taliban militants in Afghanistan
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul, July 31 (ANI): The local security officials on Sunday said that a group of the Taliban militants have allegedly gang-raped a woman in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province.
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Taliban team visited China to discuss atrocities against Afghan people: Re
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Peshawar, July 31 (ANI): A delegation from the Taliban had visited China earlier this month to discuss the situation in Afghanistan, reports suggest.
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Taliban captures Helmand's Khanashin district
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul, July 30 (ANI): Local officials on Saturday said that Khanashin district in Afghanistan's Helmand province has fallen to Taliban after hours of clashes with the security forces since last night.
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