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Amid peace talks, Kabul releases more than 200 Taliban prisoners
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], Jun 11 (ANI): At least 170 Taliban prisoners have been released from the Pul-e-Charkhi and another 130 jail inmates are expected to be freed on Tuesday, a move that has come when peace talks are underway to end the nearly-two decades-long civil war in Afghanistan.
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US Representative arrives in Pakistan to discuss Afghan peace process
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 2 (ANI): Zalmay Khalilzad, the United States' Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, arrived here on Sunday to facilitate a peace process that ends the 19 years of war in Afghanistan.
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'Decent progress' but no breakthrough in talks at Moscow, says Taliban
Updated : 6 years, 12 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], May 31 (ANI): The Taliban on Thursday said that "decent progress" was made by the group with Kabul government officials during peace talks held here with the aim to end the 18-year long war in Afghanistan.
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US considering direct talks with Taliban
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Jul 17 (ANI): The United States is considering to join the direct talks with Taliban, in an attempt to end the 17 year-long war in Afghanistan.
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Taliban says is not tired of war in Afghanistan
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], October 8 (ANI): Afghanistan's insurgent group Taliban has said, in a statement, that it is not tired of war even as the United States-led invasion that toppled the group's regime has entered into its 17th year.
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US Defense Secretary Mattis arrives in Kabul
Updated : 8 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 27 (ANI):United States Defence Secretary James Mattis arrived in Kabul on Wednesday with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, to discuss ways to implement President Donald Trump's strategy of winning the war in Afghanistan with President Ashraf Ghani. Read More
Top Pakistan Army official blames 'collective failures' for Afghanistan ex
Updated : 8 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 10 (ANI): A top Pakistan Army official has termed the expanding war in Afghanistan a 'collective failure' and insisted that there is no military solution for the violence and will assist Afghanistan in reconciliation talks.
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U.S. is fighting Pak created war in Afghanistan, China to bear the brunt
Updated : 8 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [U.S.A.], August 31 (ANI):U.S. President Donald Trump's new strategy to end the 17-year old war in Afghanistan is bound to fail, due to the fact that strategically United States is fighting Pakistan's game-plan in Afghanistan under the chief geopolitical patronage of China and sin
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Afghanistan will become Iraq if war is outsourced: Karzai
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 12 (ANI): Reacting to the alleged plans of the United States administration to outsource the war in Afghanistan, former Afghan president Hamid Karzai has said that if such step is taken, then the security situation in the country would get as worse as Iraq.
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Getting close on Afghanistan strategy: Trump
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New York [U.S.], August 11 (ANI): Terming Afghanistan as 'a mess' that he took over from the previous administration, U.S. President Donald Trump said that his administration is getting close to a decision on an updated strategy for the war in Afghanistan.
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Trump may sack Nicholson for not winning Afghan war
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New York [U.S.A], August 4 (ANI): President Donald Trump has almost decided to sack General John Nicholson as military commander in the region as American troops are not winning the war in Afghanistan, according to the U.S. media reports.
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US cannot win war in Afghanistan without Pak support: US military chief
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [United States], July 26 (ANI): The United States cannot win the war in Afghanistan without Pakistan's support, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Joseph Dunford has said.
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