June 20, 2020: At least three children were killed in a mine explosion in Paikamari village in Ferozkoh city of Ghor Province. June 18, 2020: A mortar bomb blast inside a seminary in Ishkamish District of Takhar Province killed nine seminary students. Six students were also injured in the explosion. April 1, 2020: A roadside bomb killed six children while […]
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Pentagon report says Russia working with the Taliban and others to expedite US withdrawal from Afghanistan
Russia has been actively working with the Taliban and other groups inside Afghanistan in order to expedite the withdrawal of US troops from that country, according to a congressionally mandated Pentagon report released Wednesday.
Read more ›Russia did pay extremists to attack US soldiers in Afghanistan, according to 3 separate Taliban sources
Taliban commanders have confirmed that Russia has offered financial and material support to its members in exchange for attacking US forces in Afghanistan.
Read more ›Pompeo Warns Taliban Against Attacking U.S. Troops
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has held a video conference call with the Taliban during which the top U.S. diplomat warned the insurgents against attacking American troops in Afghanistan, the Department of State says.
Read more ›US tries to push forward Taliban deal amid bounty reports, Trump’s moves to withdraw from Afghanistan
Amid reports that a Russian paramilitary unit offered the Taliban bounties to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan, the Trump administration is pushing ahead with its peace process to end America’s longest war and withdraw U.S. forces.
Read more ›U.S., Taliban say Afghan peace effort discussed in video talks
The head of the Taliban’s political office in Doha and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held a video conference to discuss the Afghan peace process, the Islamist group and the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday, in a bid to remove hurdles in the path to peace talks.
Read more ›A divided Taliban could unleash a new proxy war in Afghanistan
The COVID-19 pandemic is transforming international relations not just by straining relations among powerful states, but also by disrupting violent nonstate actors. Perhaps no major militant outfit has felt the impact as much as the Taliban. The group’s leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, is either seriously ill with the virus or possibly dead. Sirajuddin Haqqani, the head of the powerful Haqqani Network […]
Read more ›Afghan peace talks likely to start soon, reduced violence needed: Pakistan ambassador
Pakistan’s ambassador to Afghanistan said on Monday that negotiations between the Afghan government and the insurgent Taliban were expected to begin soon but that the release of 5,000 prisoners and a reduction of violence were the final hurdles.
Read more ›Mortar Strikes Kill at Least 20 at Livestock Auction in Afghanistan
The government and the Taliban pointed blame at each other in the latest attack. But in this war, there is diminishing clarity on who is to blame for the bodies piling up.
Read more ›Afghanistan war: Russia denies paying militants to kill US troops
Russia has denied reports that it offered Taliban-linked militants bounties to kill US troops in Afghanistan.
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