The Taliban has attacked targets in different parts of Kabul, the Afghan capital, including a police headquarters in the western part of the city, killing at least one and wounding several people. A senior army official also reported an attack on a building on its eastern outskirts on Wednesday, as[…]
The United Arab Emirates says five of its diplomats were killed in a bombing in Afghanistan’s Kandahar that killed at least 11 people and wounded 17 others, including the UAE Ambassador. The official Emirati news agency, WAM, said the officials were “on a mission to carry out humanitarian, educational and development projects”.[…]
Fighters have killed at least 30 civilians after abducting them in the remote Afghan province of Ghor, according to an Afghan police official. Suspected ISIL fighters killed dozens of civilians on Tuesday in the Firoz Koh district in revenge for the death of one of their commanders, a provincial official[…]
The Afghan Taliban has denied reports its leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was killed in a US strike in Pakistan, as Washington and Kabul said it was probable he was dead. Earlier on Saturday, US officials told several media organisations that drone attacks authorised by President Barack Obama had likely killed[…]
US Secretary of State John Kerry was the target of rocket strikes that hit the Afghan capital on Saturday, the Taliban has confirmed. Kerry was in Kabul for talks on Afghanistan’s unity government, which has been marred by corruption and an internal feud. Although Kerry was apparently the intended target[…]
Afghanistan’s Taliban group has officially denied any negotiations or exchange of information with Russia to fight the spread of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in Afghanistan. The group dismissed the claims on Friday, saying they “don’t need anyone’s support to fight and eliminate the presence[…]
The Sangin district of Afghanistan’s Helmand province has fallen to the Taliban just a day after Helmand’s deputy governor used Facebook to plead with the Afghan president for help in holding off the group. Sangin fell to the Taliban after hours of fierce clashes that killed more than 90 soldiers[…]
A breakaway faction of the Taliban has elected its own leader, sparking speculation over the unity of the group and its future decisions. Abdul Manan Niazi, the spokesperson for the High Council of Afghanistan Islamic Emirate, told Al Jazeera that Mullah Mohammad Rasool Akhund, a senior Taliban official, has been[…]
In Khawaja Ghar, a village in Deh Sabz district on the dusty outskirts of Kabul, there is little noticeable government presence, and Afghan soldiers and police are a rare sight. In fact, you are almost as likely to come across a Taliban fighter, residents of Khawaja Ghar and surrounding settlements[…]
Turkish authorities have arrested the head of the bar association in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir on a charge of “promoting terrorism” after he commented on the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) group during a televised debate. Tuesday’s detainment of Tahir Elci, a prominent lawyer who last week said on the[…]
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