KABUL (Pajhwok): The Afghan National Army (ANA) has raided a Taliban -run prison in southern Helmand province, freeing scores of captives, the Ministry of Defence said on Friday. As a result of the overnight raid by ANA’s Special Operation Forces in...

KABUL (Pajhwok): As clashes intensified around Raghestan district of northeastern Badakhshan province, the Ministry of Interior on Friday said more than 30 Taliban fighters and five security forces had been killed so far. In a statement, the MoI...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Seven Pakistani insurgents were killed and five others wounded on Saturday when fighter jets pounded their positions near the Afghanistan border. The news site Dawn.Com, quoting unnamed security officials, said military jets the...

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): Three militants have been killed and six others wounded during an ongoing security operation in the Albarz mountains of northern Balkh province, officials said on Friday.

KABUL (Pajhwok): President Ashraf Ghani on Friday invited the Taliban to participate in the government-led reconciliation process in the interest of last peace in the war-torn country.

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Four insurgents have been killed by the roadside bomb they were planting on the Kabul -Jalalabad highway in eastern Laghman province, the Independent Directorate of Local Governance (IDLG) said on Friday.

WASHINGTON (Pajhwok): The United States on Tuesday designated Qari Saifullah, the Taliban shadow deputy governor and an operational commander in southern Zabul province, as a global terrorist.

KABUL ( PAN ): Pakistan 's new army chief, supporting the ongoing government-led peace process with the Taliban , has said terrorist attacks will no longer be tolerated.

KABUL ( PAN ): Five people, including a pro-Al Qaeda Taliban commander, were killed in a remotely-controlled bomb blast in Pakistan 's troubled northwestern region of Waziristan on Thursday morning.