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Taliban inks maiden defence pact with Russia as Kabul seeks muscleThe pact was signed following a meeting between Taliban defence minister Mawlawi Mohammad Yaqoob and Sergei Shoigu, secretary of Russia's S...
'Heavy clashes' at Afghanistan-Pakistan border: Taliban forcesTaliban forces launched armed reprisals against Pakistani soldiers along the shared border, accusing Islamabad of carrying out air strikes ...
Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan's Paktika province kill at least 15Pakistan carried out airstrikes on Barmal district in Afghanistan, killing at least 15 people, including women and children. The Taliban's ...
UK defence ministry fined for Afghan data breach during Taliban takeoverThe British data regulator has fined the Ministry of Defence (MoD) 350,000 pounds for a series of email data breaches that exposed the pers...
Pakistan Interior Minister's recent speech "provocative and baseless": Taliban-led Defence MinistryTTP is allied with the Taliban, which seized power in neighbouring Afghanistan in August last year. The radical Islamic outfit has stepped ...
Taliban claim of controlling 90% of Afghan border is 'absolute lie', says KabulThe Taliban's claim on Thursday came after the group captured key border crossings with Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Pakistan in rece...
Russia pursues diplomacy backed by military exercise to stabilise Eurasia amid Taliban surge & fears of ISISRussian military has stated that it will conduct military drills next month with Tajikistan and Uzbekistan near the border with Afghanistan...
Russia to hold Central Asia army drills near Afghan borderTroops from a Russian military base in Tajikistan and the Central Military District will take part in the games, the defence ministry said....
53 Taliban militants dead in Afghanistan in 24 hoursMeanwhile, 20 Taliban militants were killed and eight others wounded during a cleanup operation conducted by ANDSF on the outskirts of Lash...
Afghan forces retake provincial capital Qala-e-Naw after Taliban incursion: Defence ministryThe ministry said 69 Taliban fighters had been killed in fresh operations on the edge of Qala-e-Naw - the first major provincial capital en...
Afghan forces fight to recapture Taliban-held district outside KabulWardak mayor Zarifa Ghafari said that if the district was not taken soon, fighting would reach the gates of Kabul in a few days. The defenc...
Taliban seize district on outskirts of Afghan capitalZabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Taliban, said the insurgents had captured the area on Tuesday, adding that their fighters had seize...
Taliban, Afghan forces clash as United States hands over baseThe Taliban and government forces clashed across several provinces, the ministry said, including in the former insurgent bastion of Kandaha...
Three killed in Afghan army helicopter crash, say officials"The helicopter was shot down by our Mujahideen in Washer district of Helmand province," a spokesman for the group, Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, sai...
10 Taliban terrorists killed, three injured during airstrikes in Afghanistan's FarahLast week, seven Taliban terrorists were killed after the Afghan military foiled an attack on security checkpoints in the southern Afghan d...
Afghan defence minister Asadullah Khalid flies to embattled Helmand after Taliban gainsThe fighting in the province, where U.S. and British troops for years fought to clear Taliban from a string of poppy-growing districts, com...
Afghan military helicopter crash kills four: officialsThe aircraft was flying from Herat to the neighbouring province of Farah on Friday night when it experienced "technical problems", Farah pr...
- Pakistan military demands foolproof security for Pervez Musharraf
The General Headquarters wrote a letter to the Defence Ministry seeking security for Musharraf, The Express Tribune reported.
Pakistan military demands foolproof security for MusharrafPakistan's security establishment has demanded foolproof security for ex-military ruler Pervez Musharraf, who is facing a Taliban death thr...
- Afghanistan urges Pakistan to stop 'terrorists'
Pakistan should stop terrorists from using its soil to attack Afghanistan, the Afghan defence ministry has said.