Tag: PostTaliban

The Taliban marked five years in power on Saturday, seeking to portray their government as in control even as aid and rights groups warned of escalating crises.Outside the former US embassy in Kabul, armored Taliban vehicles took part in a parade, displaying flags and banners, and celebrating what the ...

Afghanistan’s Taliban government said on Saturday its ceasefire with Pakistan would remain even though their latest talks failed, blaming Islamabad’s “irresponsible and uncooperative” approach.The two sides met on Thursday in Turkey to finalise a truce agreed on October 19 in Qatar, following deadly clashes between the South Asian neighbours.Both ...

The top Taliban leader on Saturday slammed President Donald Trump’s travel ban on Afghans, calling the United States an oppressor, as Afghanistan’s rulers seek greater engagement with the international community.The comments from Hibatullah Akhundzada marked the first public reaction from the Taliban since the Trump administration this week moved ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan’s Taliban freed two Americans in exchange for a Taliban figure imprisoned for life in California on drug trafficking and terrorism charges, officials said Tuesday.The deal came as Joe Biden, who oversaw the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan ...

Afghan Taliban forces targeted "several points" in neighboring Pakistan, Afghanistan's defense ministry said on Saturday, days after Pakistani aircraft carried out aerial bombardment inside Afghanistan.The statement from the Defence Ministry did not specify Pakistan but said the strikes were conducted "beyond the 'hypothetical line'" - an expression used ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s airstrikes on eastern Afghanistan killed 46 people, mostly women and children, a Taliban government official said Wednesday, raising fears of further straining relations between the two neighbors.Hamdullah Fitrat, the deputy spokesman for the Afghan government, said those killed in the strikes that targeted four ...

The Taliban defense ministry on Wednesday rejected Pakistan's allegations that Afghans were involved in an attack on Chinese engineers, as ties between the neighboring nations sour amidst rising insecurity.Pakistan's military had said at a press conference on Tuesday that a suicide bomb attack in March in Pakistan's northern ...

Islamabad has not yet commented on today’s air strikes, but spokesmen of the TTP and Afghan interim government said the attacks hit targets in camps occupied by hundreds of Pakistani insurgents and their families.One of the Pakistani air strikes destroyed the home of a ranking TTP commander, Abdullah Shah, ...

The Taliban will attend China’s Belt and Road Forum this week, a spokesman for the Islamic group ruling Afghanistan said.The move underscores Beijing’s growing official ties with the Afghan administration, despite its lack of formal recognition by any government.Taliban officials and ministers have at times travelled to regional meetings, ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A senior Taliban delegation was visiting western Afghanistan’s Herat province on Monday in the aftermath of the powerful earthquake that killed at least 2,000 people over the weekend and flattened entire villages, a statement said.Saturday’s magnitude 6.3 quake hit a densely populated area in Herat and ...