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Afghanistan's National Resistance Front, Taliban talks end without resultA member of the Resistance Front's negotiating team speaking on condition of anonymity, said on Tuesday that the Islamic Emirate team in re...
India, Tajikistan to expand connectivity, security & trade tiesAfghanistan situation also figured prominently when foreign minister S Jaishankar held wide-ranging discussions with his Tajik counterpart ...
Anti-Taliban leader Ahmad Masoud visits Iran to stitch allianceAhmad Masoud, an ethnic Tajik and the son of legendary military commander Ahmad Shah Masoud, is reportedly carrying a message of Tajik Pres...
Ghost towns and old men in Afghanistan's Panjshir"There is no one left, except the elders, and the poor who cannot afford to leave," said Abdul Wajid, 30, who stayed behind to watch over t...
Afghanistan: A fast-evolving powder keg waiting to explodeThe Taliban are a jihadi force that believes in the practice, imposition and spread of extreme Sunni Islam through conquest and violence. H...
Taliban say they took Panjshir, last holdout Afghan provinceThousands of Taliban fighters overrun eight districts of Panjshir overnight, according to witnesses from the area. They spoke on condition ...
Taliban say they have entered capital of holdout Afghan regionEarlier on Sunday Fahim Dashti, spokesman for the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRFA), which groups opposition forces, said the...
Taliban fighters crush a women’s protest amid flickers of resistanceSeveral of the women, who were demanding inclusion in the yet-to-be named Taliban government, said they were beaten by Taliban fighters — s...
Panjshir resistance holds as Taliban yet to name governmentFacing the challenge of morphing from insurgents to rulers, the Taliban appear determined to snuff out the Panjshir resistance before annou...
In a message to Taliban, Tajikistan honours Ahmed Shah MassoudTajikistan, strategically placed in Central Asia, on Thursday awarded its highest distinction to former Afghan defence minister Massoud and...
Putin rules out any boots on ground in Afghanistan amid conflict between Taliban & OppositionHe recalled that the conflict in Afghanistan has been continuing for decades. "The former Soviet Union has its own experience in that count...
Taliban can assert independence from their Pakistani paymasters: William DalrympleThe US government's decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan is “strategically wrong-headed” and “emotionally ill-considered”, the auth...
Taliban cuts off telecom network to defiant Panjshir"They have cut off telecommunication services in Panjshir for the last two days. Panjshir people are facing challenges in this regard and c...
View: Why there was no Northern Alliance 2.0 this time in AfghanistanThe Alliance, a concoction of tribal leaders and warlords held out in the northern parts of Afghanistan against the Taliban more than 25 ye...
Government must step up outreach in Jammu and Kashmir amid Taliban triumph in Afghanistan, says former Army chiefGen Roychowdhury, who commanded the 16 corps in Kashmir at the height of the militancy in the early 1990s, said buoyed by the Taliban's tak...
Taliban marks Afghan independence as challenges to rule rise"Fortunately, today we are celebrating the anniversary of independence from Britain," the Taliban said. "We at the same time as a result of...
Will never, ever bow to Taliban, vows Afghanistan's first Vice President Amrullah Saleh"I will never, ever and under no circumstances bow to d Talib terrorists. I will never betray d soul and legacy of my hero Ahmad Shah Masou...
Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's grandson moves on from family's bitter past"We have to let go, we have to choose a point of (new) beginning," Baheer who now teaches a course on transitional justice at the American ...
Afghan president replaces two top ministers, army chief as violence growsSince the United States announced plans in April to pull out all of its troops by Sept. 11, at least 30 districts have been seized by the T...
America stands ready to restore to power the very forces that gave rise to 9/11Eighteen years after that fateful day for Afghanistan and the region, Taliban is on the cusp of making a comeback having survived the spott...