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ISLAMABAD: A high-level Taliban delegation met with Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and other senior Pakistan officials on Thursday, the group's spokesman said . Suhail Shaheen, a spokesman for Afghan Taliban, said that the Islamic…

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Thursday reiterated Pakistan's position that the Afghan conflict can only be resolved through dialogue. The minister was speaking to the Afghan Taliban delegation held at the Foreign…

ISLAMABAD: A high-level delegation of Afghan Taliban is scheduled arrive in Islamabad today on an official visit, the group's spokesman said.  Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen said that the group's representatives will hold talks with…

At least 18 candidates are in the fray for Afghanistan’s presidential election on September 28, but only two are seen having a shot at winning in a country fractured by ethnic faultlines, unstable alliances and decades of war. President…

KABUL: Afghanistan’s Taliban insurgency has lifted a ban on World Health Organisation activities in areas the militants control, a spokesman for the group said, reversing a stance that had been complicating efforts to eradicate polio.

KABUL: A car bomb attack targeting an intelligence services building in the southern Afghan city of Qalat on Thursday left at least 10 people dead and 85 wounded, the governor of Zabul province told AFP.

REUTERS: The Taliban have sent a delegation to Russia to discuss prospects for a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan following the collapse of talks with the United States this month, officials from the insurgent group said.

WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump said Saturday he had called off a secret summit with the Taliban and Afghanistan's leader, abruptly slamming the door on a year of diplomacy to end America's longest war. In a Saturday evening…

The car bomb blast shook Shash Darak, a heavily fortified area adjacent to the Green Zone and home to several important complexes including the National Directorate of Security (NDS), the Afghan intelligence service.

KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up on Thursday in the center of Kabul, the Afghan capital, government officials said, with the blast rattling windows and doors in an area near embassies and government buildings. The…

A massive explosion rocked central Kabul late Monday, killing at least five people in a Taliban-claimed attack near an international complex while the US special envoy leading talks with the insurgents visited the Afghan capital. The…

Kunduz: Taliban insurgents on Saturday launched a multi-pronged attack on Kunduz, a strategically important city in northern Afghanistan that has come under frequent assault since 2015.

As U.S. and Taliban negotiators push to wrap up talks aimed at securing the withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan, disagreement remains about whether a pact will mean an end to the insurgents’ fight with the U.S.-backed Afghan…

Kabul: Taliban and US negotiators have wrapped up their latest round of talks for a deal that would see America shrink its troop presence in Afghanistan, both sides said Monday.

KABUL: At least 14 people were killed and 145 wounded in a massive Taliban bomb blast Wednesday as fresh violence gripped Kabul even as insurgents appear to be closing in on a peace deal with the US. The bloodshed in the capital comes…