KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Forty ty insurgents have been killed in Shah Walikot district during an operation aimed to reopen the Kandahar-Uruzgan highway, an official said on Friday.
FEROZKOH (Pajhwok): Fifteen militants have been killed and 20 others wounded in clash with security forces in Ghor province, local officials claimed on Friday.
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): A senior analyst has panned Pakistan ’s Afghan policy as a self-destructive, monotonous and tiresome. He faulted quadrilateral dialogue process as an exaggerated attempt to do things that look impossible or run counter to Pakistan’s...
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...
Lalit K Jha WASHINGTON (Pajhwok): Chief Executive Dr Abdullah on Thursday exuded confidence that talks with the Taliban could begin in the next few weeks, but such a start would not necessarily translate into success. “As regards talks with the...
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...
KABUL (Pajhwok): A militant commander was among four fighters killed by Afghan soldiers in the central province of Uruzgan on Friday, an official said. Provincial government spokesman Dost Mohammad Nayab told Pajhwok Afghan News another four...
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): Pakistan ’s former military dictator Pervez Musharraf on Thursday said recognition of the oppressive Taliban regime in Afghanistan was a mistake on the part of Islamabad.
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.
KABUL (Pajhwok): Nine militants were killed and 10 others injured in an ongoing operation in Pakistan ’s northwestern tribal region of Khyber Agency, bordering Afghanistan , on Friday.
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.
KABUL (Pajhwok): A dozen militants were killed in an encounter with paramilitary troops in the Kech district of Pakistan ’s southwestern Balochistan province on Friday evening, a news report said.
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.
HERAT CITY ( PAN ): Eight militants and a policeman have been killed in Shindand and Ghoryan districts of western Herat province, an official said on Saturday.
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.
JALALABAD ( PAN ): More than 100 people, including policemen, civilians and insurgents have been killed in a new wave of violence in eastern Nangarhar province, officials said Friday.