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Taliban officials attending an international conference in Moscow in October 2021. ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO/POOL/AFP via Getty Image Taliban-led Afghanistan is set to strike a deal with Moscow soon on imports of oil and gas. The negotiations come as the world increasingly closes itself to Moscow's energy market. With its banks sanctioned, the Taliban said it would […]
Published time: 12 Nov, 2018 09:03 Edited time: 12 Nov, 2018 09:15 After years of struggle against the Taliban in Afghanistan, US special adviser Zalmay Khalilzad is planning to visit Russia to discuss a peace settlement, his Russian counterpart Zamir Kabulov said on Monday. DETAILS TO FOLLOW Let’s block ads! (Why?)
The Afghanistan war cannot be won militarily and peace will only be achieved through a political resolution with the Taliban, the newly-appointed American general in charge of US and NATO operations has conceded. In his first interview since taking command of NATO’s Resolute Support mission in September, Gen. Austin Scott Miller provided NBC News with […]
Taliban militants have captured eight police security posts in northern Afghanistan amid an insurgents’ offensive that continues in the conflict-ridden country, local media report. The clashes in Sari-Pul province started on Sunday night, local officials confirmed to TOLOnews, adding that the militants had attacked the area from three directions. “If the government does not send […]
After more than 15 years of war, the US appears more open to dialogue with the Taliban. RT’s Ilya Petrenko explores why the US has cooled its rhetoric about the “barbarian” enemy that now controls large parts of Afghanistan. As Petrenko reveals, Washington’s longtime adversary in Afghanistan is becoming more palatable by the month, with […]
Taliban fighters attacked the city of Ghazni in central Afghanistan early on Friday, burning police checkpoints, shelling buildings and seizing control of parts of the city, officials said. The Defense Ministry in Kabul said the attackers had been driven off but were still present in one area of the city and had occupied civilian houses, […]
Taliban militants killed 30 Afghan soldiers and captured a military base in the western province of Badghis on Wednesday, in their first major attack since a ceasefire for the Eid al-Fitr holiday, Reuters reported. Provincial Governor Abdul Qafoor Malikzai said the Taliban attacked two security posts in the early hours. One military base was targeted […]
Taliban militants in Afghanistan have announced they will suspend hostilities with the government forces for three days to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid. Foreign forces in Afghanistan are excluded from the truce, however. The announcement comes after Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Thursday declared his own unconditional, week-long ceasefire against the Taliban, but not […]
Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Malala Yousafzai returned to Pakistan, six years after being shot by the Taliban. Yousafzai has been an advocate for schooling for girls. In 2014, she became the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for her education advocacy. Nobel laureate and education activist Malala Yousafzai returned to her native Pakistan on Thursday, […]
Enlarge / An Iraqi Air Force AC-308 Eliminator fires a Hellfire missile. Afghanistan is getting 7 of these aircraft courtesy of the US Air Force. (credit: US Air Force) The US military has fought the Taliban in Afghanistan for 16 years now, and frequently has done so from the skies with Hellfire strikes by Predator […]
