Nader Nadery, a member of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan’s (IRA) peace talks team says the negotiating teams have not held any formal meetings in the last nine days. Nadery stated in a tweet that the Taliban has not been willing to engage in the peace talks.

On January 20, 2021, militants released a video of two abducted employees, Pranab Kumar Gogoi and Ram Kumar, of Quippo Oil and Gas Infrastructure Limited, an oil drilling company, appeared, in which the duo appealed to the Chief Ministers of Assam and Bihar to secure their release. On December 21, 2020, the duo was abducted by the terrorists of the […]

On January 24, 2021, five Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants, including two ‘commanders’, were killed in intelligence-based operations in Mir Ali and Khesur areas of North Waziristan District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). The slain ‘commanders’ were identified as Syed Raheem and Saifullah Raheem.

An influential Afghan Taliban commander has been gunned down in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar, says a media report. Commander Abdul Samad Mullah Tor was sprayed with bullets while offering morning prayers at a mosque in Muslim City area, Daily Times said

Unidentified gunmen have shot dead a religious scholar in central Parwan province, an official said on Monday.

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 Taliban Red Unit, was killed by unknown armed men in Ganjgal area of Sarkano district late Sunday night.

A check-post commander in Kandahar city, the capital of southern Kandahar province, Haji Mohammad, was killed in a gun-attack on Sunday. The slain commander was brother of Gulalai Mohammadi, a lower house of parliament member from central Uruzgan province.

Unidentified gunmen have shot dead an instructor at the Police Academy in Lashkargah, the capital of southern Helmand province, on Monday, a security official said.

Indian and Chinese troops were involved in another brawl on their contested Himalayan border, leaving injuries on both sides, military officials said on Monday. The fighting on January 20 came six months after a pitched battle which left at least 20 Indian troops dead as well as an unknown number of Chinese casualties.

President Ashraf Ghani and High Council for National Reconciliation (HCNR) chairman Dr. Abdullah Abdullah on Monday expressed their concern over increasing violence in the country and emphasized a permanent ceasefire.