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At least 5 Taliban terrorists killed in blast in Paktia province Afghanist
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 28 (Sputnik/ANI): At least five members of the Taliban organisation have been killed in a blast in Afghanistan's southeastern province of Paktia, the local police said on Sunday.
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17 Taliban terrorists killed, 20 others injured in Afghanistan
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Sarozai [Afghanistan], June 19 (ANI): At least 17 Taliban terrorists were killed and 20 others suffered injuries in an attack by Afghan forces in Sarozai district in Paktika province on Thursday night, Afghan Defence Ministry announced.
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In a new video, Taliban speak against West, Afghan governments
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 11 (ANI): As Afghanistan government and the West step up efforts to integrate Taliban into the government, the extremist group has released a video eulogising Jihad and the Islamic Emirate, which they had established in Afghanistan in 1996, few years before 9/11.
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UN Security Council unlikely to lift sanctions over Taliban
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Moscow [Russia], May 29 (ANI): Days after the Afghan government released hundreds of Taliban prisoners as part of the peace deal with the United States, the UN Security Council was expected to vote on lifting sanctions over the group. But the matter has been squashed as certain conditions ma
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Afghan-India ties are within international framework: Kabul to Taliban on
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], may 18 (ANI): Reacting to the recent remarks from the Taliban stating that India has been playing a negative role in the country since past 40 years, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan (MoFA) has said that its relations with India are within "international fr
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Car bomb explosion kills five in Afghanistan's Gardiz, Taliban claims resp
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 14 (ANI): At least five people were killed when a car bomb exploded in front of the gate of a Defense Ministry facility in Gardiz city, the center of eastern Paktia province, on Thursday morning.
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Multiple attacks rock Afghanistan: Women and babies killed in attack at Ka
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 12 (ANI): Fourteen people, including two infants, were killed at a maternity hospital in western part of Kabul, which was attacked by gunmen on Tuesday, the Interior Affairs Ministry of Afghanistan said.
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Taliban halts talks with Afghan govt on prisoner exchange
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 7 (ANI): The Taliban on Tuesday broke off talks with the Afghan government on prisoner exchange, the main step in peace talks being brokered by the United States after it agreed on a troop withdrawal pact with the group.
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US Defense Secy speaks to Gen Bajwa, expresses appreciation for Pak's supp
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [US], Mar 20 (ANI): US Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Thursday (local time) held a telephonic conversation with Pakistani Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa and expressed his appreciation for Pakistan's support to Afghanistan reconciliation process.
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Shiite memorial service in Kabul attended by Abdullah Abdullah attacked
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], Mar 06 (ANI): A Shiite memorial service, attended by Afghanistan Chief Executive officer (CEO) Abdullah Abdullah, was attacked on Friday.
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US, Taliban to sign peace accord on Feb 29
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], Feb 21 (ANI): A seven-day long "reduction in violence" in Afghanistan, which if successful would lead to the signing of US-Taliban peace accord later this month, will begin on Friday midnight (local time).
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By ignoring 'Pakistan problem', Khalilzad and Trump ensuring neither Afgha
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington D.C [US], Feb 17 (ANI): Even as the Trump administration prepares for peace deal with Taliban, a scholar with a Washington based think-tank has said that the insurgency in the landlocked country would not have survived without Islamabad's support and by ignoring the "Pakistan prob
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