KABUL - At least 150 Afghan troops have been killed or injured in the last 24 hours in a surge of attacks by Taliban militants as foreign forces withdraw, senior government officials said on Monday. Fighting is now raging in 26 of the country's 34 provinces, the officials said, speaking on ...

KABUL (AT News): At least 406 Taliban militants have surrendered to the Afghan security forces in three western provinces within one month, ministry of defense said on Tuesday. Ministry’s spokesman, Fawad Aman said that 59 Taliban fighters laid down their arms and surrendered to the Afghan ...

KABUL - Over 40 Afghan Taliban militants and commanders surrender and join peace process. In Afghanistan, 40 Taliban militants have surrendered to Afghan National Army in Ghor province amid military pressure in the mountainous region. Afghan Ministry of Defense said in a statement that the ...

HERAT, Afghanistan: At least 20 Afghan commandos were killed in a Taliban ambush in western Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday, marking yet another loss for the elite troops amid a push to end the war. Provincial governor Abdul Ghafoor Malikzai said the special forces soldiers were ambushed ...

KABUL: In Afghanistan, fifteen members of public uprising forces and civilians have been killed in a Taliban attack in western Ghor province. A member of Ghor Provincial Council said today, that clash started after a group of Taliban attacked some security outposts in Poshta Noor village in ...

KABUL: In Afghanistan, eighteen security Personnel have been killed in Taliban attack at security posts  near Jam minaret in Ghor province.

HEART: Taliban fighters have stormed several security posts providing protection to Afghanistan’s historic minaret of Jam, cutting access to the UNESCO World Heritage Site and killing 18 security forces, officials said Wednesday. The attack comes less than a week after the revered 12th-century ...

KABUL: Afghan officials said on Tuesday that two Taliban attacks targeted Afghan security checkpoints in the country’s west and east, killing at least 23 members of the security forces. In western Ghor province, Abdul Hai Khateby, the governor’s spokesman, says 18 policemen and pro-government ...

KABUL: In Afghanistan, thirteen people have been killed and over hundred houses destroyed due to flash floods in Ghor province over past two days. Provincial governor Ghulam Nasir Khazih said floods largely damaged provincial capital Firoz Koah and neighboring Tolak and Shahrak districts where ...

KABUL:In Afghanistan, seven security personnel have been killed and two other injured in an ambush by Taliban on the highway between Balkh and Kunduz.  A government official said that the head of police operations in Ghor province Faqir Ahmad Noori is among those killed.