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

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.

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.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said Sunday that any interruption in the Republic governing system would come at a great cost to the country especially as it currently provides equality to all Afghans. Speaking at a meeting with members of the Shia Ulema (scholars) Council of Afghanistan at the Presidential Palace,Ghani said: “The Republic is an umbrella and a bed where […]

Afghanistan has urged the Saudi government to play a proactive role in achieving a lasting ceasefire in the war-torn country. Foreign Minister Mohammed Haneef Atmar, who recently held wide-ranging talks with his Saudi counterpart Faisal bin Farhan, issued the call in an interview.

At least 38 militants have been killed in a security operation in the Arghandab district of southern Kandahar province.

Four Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers and six Taliban militants have been killed in two separate incidents of violence in northern Faryab province, sources said on Sunday.

The Afghan general consul in Dubai, Masoud Azizi, said that 28 were sent to Kabul this week. At least 200 Afghan nationals have been released from Dubai prisons with the help of the Afghan consulate over the last eight months, officials from the consulate said on Sunday.

Authorities in Afghanistan say they have rearrested 600 members of the Taliban who were freed from imprisonment as part of a peace-building agreement between the United States and the insurgent group. Afghanistan’s national security adviser, Hamdullah Mohib, made the announcement Sunday, alleging the men in question had returned to the battlefield to plot deadly attacks against government forces and civilians.

The Ministry of Defense says that 56 insurgents have been killed in clashes with security forces in different parts of the country in the past 24 hours. Mod stated, that Taliban fighters had gathered in different parts of the Arghandab district of Kandahar province yesterday to attack the positions of the security forces.