KABUL – Weeks after Pakistan denied the United States used its airspace to carry out a drone strike inside Afghanistan, the Taliban’s acting defence minister said Pakistan had allowed American drones to use its airspace to access Afghanistan. Addressing a news conference in Kabul on Sunday, ...

Acting Minister of Interior Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Sarajudin Haqqani met with Russia’s special representative for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov and pledged that Afghanistan will not threaten any country. Sarajudin Haqqani said that the Taliban are committed to their pledges ...

The supreme leader of the Taliban in Afghanistan has warned against the danger of turncoats and infiltrators in the movement that has taken charge of Afghanistan. In a statement, reflecting the seriousness of the threat, Haibatullah Akhundzada urged Taliban commanders to purge their ranks. He ...

KABUL – TIME has revealed its list of the 100 most influential people of 2021 and Afghan Deputy PM and Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar has been named as ‘charismatic military leader and a deeply pious figure’. The 'prestigious' list is broken into six categories including ...

NEW YORK – Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director William Burns secretly held a meeting with Abdul Ghani Baradar, co-founder and deputy leader of the Taliban movement, in Kabul on Monday, it emerged on Tuesday. The Washington Post in a report citing sources said that both held meeting in ...

ASADABAD (Pajhwok): Taliban’s Red Unit deputy commander for eastern Kunar province has been killed and an Islamic State (IS) recruiter arrested in Nangarhar province, sources said on Monday. Kunar police spokesman Faridullah Dehqan told Pajhwok Afghan News that NiazSalim, deputy commander of the ...

JALALABAD, Afghanistan, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) — A Taliban key commander Mullah Ghafar has been killed in Pachiragam district of the eastern Nangarhar province, a statement of the provincial government said here Saturday. The security forces launched a special operation Friday night in ...

Mark Milley, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, held unannounced talks with the Taliban peace negotiators in Doha, capital of Qatar, to urge a reduction in violence across Afghanistan, AP reported. Gen. Milley met for about two hours with the Taliban negotiators on Tuesday and flew ...

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan met with the Taliban delegation led by their deputy leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar. The discussions focused on the progress in the Afghan peace process and the way forward, Khan’s office said. In this meeting, Khan reiterated that there was no military ...

PAKTIA, Afghanistan - A key commander of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has been killed in Afghanistan's Patika province on Thursday. According to the sources, a Taliban key commander identified as Ehsanullah alias Omar Khattab was killed during the operation in Paktika ...