Afghan police officer killed in Taliban attack

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, finding himself a little isolated with both the US and Pakistan favouring talks with the Taliban, will be in India next week for talks with the government here in what will be his second visit in six months. A first on ...

In what was one of the deadliest attacks, Taliban militants on Wednesday rammed a vehicle laden with explosives and opened fire into a courthouse in Farah province in western Afghanistan, setting off a fierce battle with explosions and gunfire, that killed at ...

Taliban attacks killed at least ten Afghan police on Sunday, officials said, in the latest violence against the force which is due to take more security responsibility from NATO troops before their withdrawal next year. In one of the incidents, ...

The failure highlights how tenuous women's rights remain a dozen years after the ouster of the hard-line Taliban regime, whose strict interpretation of Islam added to the hardship in the lives of Afghan women. The law has been in effect since 2009 ...

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The Taliban is the same group that preferred war with the United States over handing over its friends from the Al Qaeda. It is the same group that continues to haunt Afghans. So what has led to talks with the Taliban in the run-up to 2014, when Western troops ...

Islam Times - A senior Taliban commander has been killed in a joint military operation by Afghan security forces and US-led forces in Afghanistan's northern province of Balkh. A (combined) Afghan and coalition security force killed a senior Taliban ...

From an International Security Assistance Force Joint Command News Release KABUL, Afghanistan, May 17, 2013 A combined Afghan and coalition security force arrested a senior Taliban leader in the Baghlan-e Jadid district of Afghanistan's Baghlan ...

A senior Taliban leader was arrested Friday during an operation in northern Afghan province of Baghlan, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) forces said."An Afghan and coalition security force arrested a senior Taliban leader ...