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.
UK to withdraw over 300 troops from Afghanistan following US-Taliban Peace Deal
Mar 11, 2020, at 06:44 pm
London/UNI: United Kingdom has decided to pull out more than 300 of its troops stationed in Afghanistan by the middle of July following the peace agreement between the Taliban and the United States.
Taliban killing too many Afghans in the countryside, says US State Department
Mar 11, 2020, at 03:36 pm
Washington/IBNS: Days after a peace deal was signed between the two groups, the US State Department on Wednesday confirmed that the Taliban has taken steps to stop attacks against the coalition force in the cities but they are killing too many Afghans in the countryside.
Pakistan wants Taliban to rule Afghanistan, says former Afghan President's brother
Mar 10, 2020, at 11:39 pm
Geneva/IBNS: The brother of a former Afghanistan President has said that Pakistan is backing the Taliban group to topple the elected government in his nation.
Taliban hand prisoner list to US Delegation – Spokesman
Mar 10, 2020, at 06:16 pm
Kabul/Sputnik/UNI: The Taliban have handed to a US delegation a list of 5,000 fighters they want released from Afghan prisons, the spokesman for the militant group’s Qatar office said on Tuesday.
Intra-Afghan talks expected to open amid renewed Taliban violence, US airstrikes
Mar 10, 2020, at 04:55 pm
Kabul/Sputnik/UNI: Intra-Afghan negotiations are expected to open on Tuesday amid uncertainty as the Taliban are stepping up attacks on country’s forces and US warplanes are carrying out airstrikes on the group’s positions, yet hopes for long-awaited peace has became possible after President Ashraf Ghani finally agreed to a prisoner swap.
The US-Taliban Agreement: Vindication of terrorism and betrayal of the common Afghan
Mar 08, 2020, at 07:22 pm
It had been argued in the EFSAS Commentary of 06-09-2019 titled ‘Strange negotiations in an incongruous environment do not portend well for peace in Afghanistan’ that the talks that the United States (US) was engaged in with the Taliban represented basically an acceptance of defeat by the US, its willingness to renege on the promises, both articulated and implied, made to the people of Afghanistan, and in its rush to get out of Afghanistan its sheer lack of interest in, or commitment to, the prospects of long-term peace in the country.
‘Unanimous’ ICC gives go-ahead to probe Afghanistan alleged war crimes
Mar 06, 2020, at 10:13 am
New York/IBNS: Prosecutors have been given the green light to investigate alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Afghanistan - and beyond its borders – linked to Afghan, Taliban and US troops, the International Criminal Court said on Thursday.
U.S. forces conduct 1st airstrike against Taliban after peace deal
Mar 04, 2020, at 05:04 pm
Kabul/Xinhua/UNI: The U.S. forces in Afghanistan conducted a defensive airstrike in support of Afghan security forces in southern Helmand province on Wednesday, the first raid after a U.S.-Taliban deal was signed.
Moscow hopes US, Taliban comply with peace agreement - Russia's top Afghanistan diplomat
Mar 03, 2020, at 07:02 pm
Moscow/Sputnik/UNI: Moscow hopes that both the United States and Taliban will comply with the agreement they have recently reached, Russia’s Presidential Representative for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, told reporters in Moscow Tuesday.
China welcomes U.S.-Taliban peace deal: FM spokesperson
Mar 02, 2020, at 05:07 pm
Beijing/Xinhua/UNI: China welcomes the signing of a U.S.-Taliban agreement as a positive step in achieving a political solution of the Afghan issue, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Monday.
Top Iranian diplomat says US surrendered to Taliban
Mar 02, 2020, at 08:59 am
Tehran/Sputnik/UNI: Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif on Sunday described the US-Taliban peace deal as Washington’s "surrender" that followed years of a humiliating war in Afghanistan.
United States-Taliban deal: UN welcomes efforts to reach political settlement in Afghanistan
Mar 01, 2020, at 07:16 pm
New York/IBNS: On Saturday the United Nations called for further reductions in violence in Afghanistan, and for the conditions for intra-Afghan peace talks to be met, following the announcement of an agreement between the United States and the Taliban.
No commitment to release Taliban prisoners: Ashraf Ghani
Mar 01, 2020, at 06:45 pm
Kabul/IBNS: A day after the Taliban group and the US signed a peace deal, Afghanistan president Ashraf Ghani on Sunday said his government has not pledged to free Taliban prisoners.
Historic peace treaty signed between Taliban and US ends nearly 19 years of conflict in Afghanistan
Feb 29, 2020, at 09:58 pm
Doha/IBNS: After nearly 19 years of hostilities, United States signed a peace deal with Taliban which came after months of negotiations between the representatives of the two sides here.
US inks landmark peace agreement with Taliban
Feb 29, 2020, at 07:37 pm
Doha/UNI: The United States on Saturday signed the much-awaited peace agreement with Taliban, here in the Qatar capital.
Afghan government sends officials to Qatar at Taliban’s request : sources
Feb 28, 2020, at 12:43 pm
Kabul/Sputnik/UNI: The Afghan government has sent a delegation to Qatar at the request of the Taliban, days before the militant group and the United States are supposed to sign a peace deal there, sources from the Afghan presidential palace told Sputnik on Thursday.
Pompeo says US-Taliban deal to include timeline for troops withdrawal, intra-Afghan negotiations
Feb 26, 2020, at 10:27 am
Washington/Xinhua/UNI: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday that a possible US-Taliban peace deal will include a timetable for conditions-based US troop withdrawals and the start of the intra-Afghan negotiations.
US to ink deal with Taliban on Feb 29: Pompeo
Feb 21, 2020, at 07:46 pm
Washington/UNI: The United States has reached an “understanding” with the Taliban and the two sides would sign a peace deal on February 29, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday.
US-Taliban peace deal finalised:Abdullah
Feb 17, 2020, at 07:24 pm
Kabul,/UNI: Chief Executive of the Afghan Unity Government Abdullah Abdullah on Monday claimed that the peace agreement between the Taliban and US has been "finalised."
Over 50 Taliban militants surrender in 2 Afghan provinces: Defense Ministry
Feb 17, 2020, at 05:23 pm
Kabul/Sputnik/UNI: More than 50 members of the Taliban movement have surrendered to the Afghan security forces in the country's provinces of Herat and Ghor, the Afghan Defense Ministry said on Monday.
Foreign military helicopter crashes in Afghanistan because of Taliban attack: statement
Feb 17, 2020, at 05:18 pm
Kabul/Sputnik/UNI: A foreign military helicopter crashed in Afghanistan on Monday in a Taliban attack, according to the movement's statement.
Kandahar: 5 Taliban terrorists killed
Feb 16, 2020, at 04:29 pm
Kabul/IBNS: Conducting an operation in south Kandahar province, the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces have killed five suspected Taliban terrorists, media reports said on Sunday.
US tells Ghani ready to use lethal force if Taliban violates deal with Washington: Reports
Feb 16, 2020, at 12:23 am
Moscow/Sputnik: US officials have assured Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and other Afghan delegates that Washington will not abandon Afghanistan after signing an agreement on the reduction of violence with the Taliban movement and is ready to use lethal force if the deal is violated, CNN reported on Saturday, citing a source in Munich.
Afghanistan: Security forces arrest Pakistani family, seize explosives
Feb 15, 2020, at 03:59 pm
Kabul/IBNS: Afghanistan security forces recently arrested a Pakistani family in Ghazni province and seized a large cache of explosives belonging to Taliban, media reports said on Saturday.
16 militants arrested in S. Afghan province: police
Feb 10, 2020, at 05:54 pm
Kabul/Xinhua/UNI: Sixteen Taliban militants have been arrested in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province as fighting rages in the country, local police said Monday.
Taliban leader killed in Afghanistan airstrikeÂ
Feb 10, 2020, at 03:25 pm
Kabul/IBNS: A prominent Taliban leader, who was in charge of high-tech weapons of the group in northern Balkh province, was killed in an airstrike, media reports said on Monday.
Series of airstrikes on Taliban, ISIS kill over 50 militants throughout country: Military
Feb 09, 2020, at 10:47 pm
Kabul/Sputnik/UNI: The Afghan authorities confirmed on Sunday that at least 19 members of the Islamic State terrorist group (IS, banned in Russia) were killed in airstrikes in the eastern Kunar province on Sunday, while 39 Taliban members were eliminated in the series airstrikes by Afghan air forces in other provinces, namely Kandahar, Kunduz, Herat, Balkh and Helmand.
10 militants killed in airstrike in E. Afghanistan
Feb 09, 2020, at 04:20 pm
Kabul/XinhuaUNI: At least 10 Taliban militants were killed in an overnight airstrike in Afghanistan's eastern Kunar province, the Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
Afghanistan: Premature bomb explosion leaves five Taliban terrorists killed
Feb 09, 2020, at 03:39 pm
Kabul/IBNS: A premature bomb explosion in north Afghanistan left at least five Taliban terrorists killed, media reports said.