Security officials say Taliban’s shadow governor for northern Faryab province also killed, Taliban deny claim. Afghan security forces on Saturday claimed killing nearly 300 Taliban insurgents, including the group’s shadow governor for the northern Faryab province bordering Turkmenistan, in ...

Afghanistan on Sunday claimed to have killed at least 90 Taliban militants amid heavy fighting in Kandahar province. The Defense Ministry said multiple assaults by the Taliban were repulsed, and subsequent clean-up operations conducted in different districts of the restive southern ...

The US military confirmed Friday carrying out an airstrike against Taliban militants it said were in the process of attacking an Afghan government checkpoint in Zhari district. The strike took place on Thursday, Col. Sonny Leggett, the spokesman for US forces in Afghanistan, said, maintaining it ...

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 ...

KABUL - Afghan Military claims killing 40 Taliban militants in combat operations across the country. In Afghanistan, forty militants have been killed in military operations with security forces in different provinces. In a statement in Kabul, Afghan Defense Ministry said that latest wave ...

KABUL - Afghanistan military claims killing at least 24 Taliban militants, Afghan media has reported. In Afghanistan, twenty-four Taliban were killed in fresh clashes in Darzab district of Jawzjan province on Saturday. A spokesman of provincial government said Taliban clashed with ...

KABUL - Atleast 16 Afghan Taliban militants killed in Afghanistan Army operations. In Afghanistan, sixteen Taliban militants have been killed in two separate incidents in northern Jawzjan and Kunduz provinces. According to Interior Ministry, eleven militants were killed during clashes with ...

In Afghanistan, at least 16 Taliban militants have been killed in separate airstrikes during the past 24 hours. In a statement, Afghan National Army Special Operations Corps said the Taliban militants have killed in airstrikes in Uruzgan, Ghazni, Paktika and Faryab provinces. 

In Afghanistan, six Taliban militants have been killed during clashes with security forces in western Farah province. In a statement, provincial police spokesman said clashes occurred after Taliban militants attacked defensive posts in two villages of Pusht Rod district. Security forces also ...

KABUL - In Afghanistan, over 40 Taliban militants were killed in latest airstrikes conducted by Afghan Air Force within the past 24 hours. According to the government spokesperson, in the eastern province of Ghazni, 16 Taliban militants were killed and five others wounded in two separate ...