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The Taliban drew from its inner high echelons to fill top posts in Afghanistan's new government on Tuesday, including an associate of the Islamist militant group's founder as premier and a wanted man on a U.S. terrorism list as interior minister. World powers have told ...

Unsurprisingly, the Taliban’s rapid takeover of power across Afghanistan has prompted headlines about a renewed “civil war”. This is misleading, however. “Civil war” implies a situation where an insurgent movement is taking on a ruling government. But in 2001, it was not just the US-backed Northern Alliance ...

Over 260 Sikhs have taken shelter at Gurdwara Karte Parwan in Kabul and need help in their evacuation, a US Sikh body said Sunday. "There are more than 260 Afghan citizens left at Gurudwara Karte Parwan in Kabul including women and over 50 children. This ...

Kabul: A bombing attack that targeted Afghanistan's acting defense minister killed at least eight people and wounded 20, authorities said Wednesday. The deputy minister was not hurt in the attack claimed by Taliban insurgents. The blast went off late Tuesday in a heavily guarded upscale neighborhood of the capital ...

KABUL, AfghanistanTaliban attempts to capture three major cities in Afghanistan have been successfully repulsed, officials said on Saturday.The insurgents mounted assaults on the cities of Lashkargah and Kandahar in the south and Herat in the west on Friday evening, but were driven away as Afghan forces inflicted heavy casualties ...

Asia & Pacific15:58 GMT 28.07.2021(updated 16:02 GMT 28.07.2021) Get short URLhttps://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e5/07/1c/1083479388_0:140:3072:1868_1200x675_80_0_0_11fe08b84fe97cc62c3af704ee9b207b.jpgSputnik Internationalhttps://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.pngSputnikhttps://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.pnghttps://sputniknews.com/asia/202107281083479427-taliban-reportedly-capture-district-in-capital-of-afghanistans-helmand-province/MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Taliban (a terrorist group, banned in Russia) have taken control of Police District 5 in the Afghan city of Lashkargah, the capital of Helmand Province, TOLOnews reported on Wednesday, citing the provincial council head.Helmand ...

At least 70 Taliban commanders were killed in Helmand and Kandahar by Afghan forces in operations carried out in retaliation to the attacks started by the group more than a month ago. According to Kabul’s ministry of interior affairs, 152 pakistani fighters were also killed in the operations in ...

KABUL: Afghan troops have pushed back the Taliban from the outskirts of Helmand’s provincial capital, Lashkar Gah, in the south of the country, with the insurgent group losing 300 men in recent days, Helmand’s governor said on Saturday. “The Taliban have been driven (out) from the limits of the ...

HELMAND (AFGHANISTAN): Pakistan's 'running with the hare and hunting with the hound' policy lays exposed in the recent onslaught of the Taliban offensive in Helmand province, as per TOLO news. According to reports, foreign fighters from Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba are supporting the Taliban in the battle. Tolo News ...

Against the backdrop of intense attacks by the Taliban in Helmand province of Afghanistan, a top Afghan official has said that fighters from Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) are involved in the fighting. The crucial province has witnessed violent clashes between the Taliban and Afghan forces since the ...