May 23, 2020, at 03:38 pm
Islamabad/IBNS: Taliban deputy leader and Haqqani network head Sirajuddin Haqqani was found in a Pakistan hospital after he was tested positive for the deadly Covid-19, media reports said.
Pakistan continues to support Taliban to counter India, says Pentagon report
May 22, 2020, at 03:35 pm
Washington: USA's Department of Defense (Pentagon) has released a report outlining Pakistan’s continued support to Taliban and the notorious Haqqani terrorist network with an aim to countering its rival India, according to Afghanistan media reports.
May 20, 2020, at 10:51 am
Kabul/IBNS: At least 12 people, including women and children, were killed or wounded as an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) planted by Taliban militants ripped through a civilian vehicle in Afghanistan's Zabul province, media reports said on Wednesday.
At least 40 Taliban militants killed in Afghan forces' response attack in Kunduz
May 19, 2020, at 04:19 pm
Kabul/Sputnik/UNI: At least 40 Taliban militants were killed and over 50 others injured in Afghanistan's northern Kunduz province in an operation by Afghan security forces, a deputy spokesman for the Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.
Afghanistan: Suspected Taliban terrorists set five people on fire after shooting them
May 19, 2020, at 10:23 am
Kabul/IBNS: Suspected Taliban terrorists set bodies of five people on fire after shooting them in Afghanistan's South-eastern Ghazni province, media reports said.
Pak-based Haqqani backs terror groups planning another 9/11 in West, claims ex-Afghan intel chief
May 18, 2020, at 01:52 pm
Kabul: Former Afghan intelligence chief Rahmatullah Nabil has alerted that Pakistan-based Haqqani Network is 'backing' proscribed terror groups that are planning to carry out an attack in the West.
Afghanistan: Security forces kill key Taliban commander in Uruzgan
May 17, 2020, at 08:28 pm
Kabul/IBNS: Security forces in Afghanistan have killed 23 Taliban militants including a key Taliban commander, media reports said on Sunday.
Kabul, Nangarhar attacks were carried out by Taliban: Amrullah Saleh
May 17, 2020, at 06:17 pm
Kabul/UNI: Afghanistan's First Vice-President Amrullah Saleh on Sunday blamed the Taliban for the deadly attacks that struck Kabul and Nangarhar, calling them the 'enemy of the country'.
Pashtun activist claims Pakistan Army committing human rights violations
May 13, 2020, at 06:10 pm
Islamabad: A Pashtun activist has accused the Pakistan Army of committing human rights violations in the country's tribal areas bordering Afghanistan.
Taliban maintains close ties with terror groups: Afghanistan NDS chief
May 11, 2020, at 05:02 pm
Kabul/IBNS: The head of Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security (NDS) has said Taliban’s relations with other terrorist groups 'continue to be close and mutually beneficial which is against the spirit of the peace agreement the group had signed with the United States'.
Seven Taliban militants killed as heroin lab busted in eastern Afghanistan - Authorities
May 09, 2020, at 08:02 pm
Kabul/Sputnik: Afghan security forces have busted a clandestine drug lab run by the Taliban in the eastern Paktia province, killing seven militants and arresting three others, the Interior Ministry said on Saturday.
Afghan releases more than 100 Taliban prisoners
May 05, 2020, at 07:53 pm
Kabul/UNI:The Afghan government has released 102 more members of the Taliban as per the agreement between the Islamist group and the US announced National Security Council Spokesman Javid Faisal on Tuesday.
Taliban kill 3 soldiers in attack on checkpoints in Eastern Afghanistan
May 03, 2020, at 09:13 pm
Kabul/Sputnik/UNI: Three Afghan soldiers were killed and five others injured in a gunfight with Taliban militants in the eastern Afghan province of Paktia, a spokesman for the governor said on Sunday.
US threatens to retaliate if Taliban doesn't stop violence
May 03, 2020, at 08:50 am
Kabul/UNI: The United States threatened Taliban and other conflict parties in Afghanistan with retaliatory actions if the militants do not reduce the scale of violence in the war-torn country.
Dozens of Taliban militants killed in southern Afghanistan in past 24 hours - Police
May 02, 2020, at 05:13 pm
Kabul/Sputnik/UNI: Dozens of Taliban militants have been killed in Afghanistan’s southern provinces of Zabul and Helmand in the past 24 hours, the police said Saturday.
Afghanistan: Civilian casualties down, but hundreds still killed, despite US-Taliban deal
Apr 28, 2020, at 01:49 pm
New York/IBNS: In the first quarter of 2020, the number of civilian casualties in Afghanistan fell by nearly a third from the same period a year earlier, representing the lowest first quarter figure since 2012, according to a UN report released on Monday.
Taliban kill 7 members of Afghan public uprising forces in Takhar province
Apr 27, 2020, at 07:10 pm
Kabul,/Sputnik:At least seven members of Afghanistan’s public uprising forces, which operate under the Ministry of Interior Affairs, were killed on Monday in the northern province of Takhar during a Taliban attack, an witnesses said.
Afghanistan: Taliban commander Mullah Khaliq killed during operation
Apr 25, 2020, at 12:19 pm
Kabul/IBNS: Afghanistan security forces killed a key Taliban commander Mullah Khaliq alias Saifullah during its operation in northern Balkh province of the country, media reports said.
Afghanistan: Taliban terrorists fire mortars, 1 civilian killed
Apr 20, 2020, at 05:09 pm
Kabul/IBNS: Suspected Taliban terrorists fired mortars in North-eastern Kapisa province which left at least one civilian killed, media reports said.
Afghanistan: Local police commander killed in suspected Taliban attack
Apr 19, 2020, at 05:46 pm
Kabul/IBNS: In a suspected attack by Taliban terrorists, a local police commander and two others were killed in Afghanistan's western province of Badghis on Sunday, media reports said.
Afghanistan: Security forces kill six Taliban terrorists
Apr 18, 2020, at 05:43 pm
Kabul/IBNS: The Afghanistan security forces have killed six Taliban militants and wounded two others in the country's South-eastern Paktiya province, media reports said on Saturday.
Pakistan reactivates Taliban terror to launch attacks in India's Kashmir: Reports
Apr 18, 2020, at 01:43 pm
Islamabad/IBNS: Pakistan has reactivated Taliban terror camps, which are situated at Afghanistan-Pakistan border, to launch attacks in Kashmir region of India, media reports said.
Afghanistan security forces kill shadow governor of Taliban
Apr 12, 2020, at 06:15 pm
Kabul/IBNS: Afghanistan security forces have killed the shadow governor of the Taliban group in central Maidan Wardak province of Afghanistan, media reports said.
Afghanistan: Suspected Taliban terrorists kill civilians
Apr 08, 2020, at 04:43 pm
Kabul/IBNS: Suspected Taliban terrorists have killed eight civilians in Afghanistan's Balkh province, media reports said on Wednesday.
Two Taliban killed, 4 injured in clash with army in southern Afghanistan – Police
Apr 06, 2020, at 06:04 pm
Kabul/Sputnik/UNI: A clash between the forces of the Afghan government and the Taliban movement in the southernmost Helmand province of Afghanistan has resulted in two radical insurgents being killed and four others injured, with no reported casualties on the army's part, the local police headquarters said in a statement on Monday.
Afghanistan: Prominent Taliban leader killed
Apr 06, 2020, at 10:41 am
Kabul/IBNS: The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) has killed a Taliban leader in Afghanistan's central Wardak province, media reports said.
Taliban violence in Badakshan leaves 10 dead
Apr 03, 2020, at 05:34 pm
Kabul, Afghanistan/UNI: A Taliban raid at an Afghan army checkpoint left 10 people dead, Afghan Army spokesperson announced on Friday.
Taliban prisoner release postponed: Afghan National Security Council Spokesman
Mar 31, 2020, at 12:15 pm
Moscow/Sputnik/UNI: The release of Taliban prisoners, expected to begin Tuesday, has been delayed, Afghan National Security Council spokesman Javid Faisal said.
At least 6 dead after Taliban clash with Afghan police in Kandahar : Source
Mar 28, 2020, at 05:33 pm
Kabul/Sputni/UNI: Clashes occurred between the Afghan National Police and the Taliban radical group overnight Saturday in the Spin Buldak district of the southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan, Sputnik has learned from local sources.
Afghanistan: Roadside bomb explosion in Nangarhar kills Taliban commander
Mar 20, 2020, at 09:30 am
Nangarhar/IBNS: A Roadside bomb explosion in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province left at least one Taliban commander and his security guard killed, media reports said on Friday.