Noor Zahid VOA News November 29, 2016 The Afghan Taliban, accused by the government of destroying millions of dollars’ worth of national improvements, vowed Tuesday to protect a new natural gas pipeline, a cooper mine, and upgrades to highways and railways. A Taliban statement released by the group’s spokesperson, Zabihullah Mujahid, said Taliban leadership does
Ayaz Gul VOA News November 3, 2016 ISLAMABAD — The U.S. military says that two of its service members died as a result of wounds they sustained during early morning counter-Taliban operations in northern Afghanistan. “The service members came under fire during a train, advise and assist mission with our Afghan partners to clear a Taliban
Ayaz Gul VOA News October 22, 2016 ISLAMABAD — An Afghan Taliban delegation has traveled to Pakistan from Qatar for talks with officials to raise various issues, including “arrests” of some insurgent leaders, shutting down of some religious seminaries for Afghan refugees and “increasing problems” facing the displaced community in the neighboring country. A senior Taliban
Ayaz Gul VOA News October 18, 2016 ISLAMABAD — The Taliban has formally refuted reports of secret meetings with Afghan government officials, insisting there has been no change in the group’s policy for holding peace negotiations. The Guardian newspaper, in an exclusive article published Tuesday, quoted anonymous Afghan officials and sources within the Taliban as confirming
Ayaz Gul VOA News October 18, 2016 ISLAMABAD — Senior Afghan government and Taliban representatives reportedly have held at least two secret meetings in recent days in a bid to resume a long-awaited peace dialogue to end the war in Afghanistan. A source within the National Unity Government (NUG) in Kabul has confirmed to VOA the
1TV: Taliban has branded Donald Trump as non-serious after the group watched a debate between the U.S. presidential runner and his rival from a secret location in Afghanistan, it has been reported. “Trump… [says] anything that comes to his tongue,” Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told NBC News. Click here to read more (external link). Related Taliban
Ayaz Gul VOA News September 5, 2016 ISLAMABAD — A suicide bomber in a police uniform detonated his device near the Afghan Defense Ministry in Kabul Monday, killing at least 24 people and wounding more than 90 others. Afghanistan’s Tolo TV reported that the ministry’s senior commander, General Abdul Raziq, along with the intelligence chief for
VOA News Ayaz Gul September 4, 2016 ISLAMABAD — The Taliban is urging India to stop giving lethal military equipment to the Afghan government, condemning it as a “clear hostility” towards the war-torn nation. In its first public reaction to New Delhi’s growing military cooperation with Kabul, the Islamist insurgency alleged Indian aircraft and equipment are
Ayaz Gul VOA News August 31, 2016 ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan’s Taliban confirmed to VOA Tuesday it has been holding a Canadian man, his American wife and their two children hostage, saying the insurgent group is waiting for the U.S. and Canadian governments to meet its demands. Joshua Boyle and his wife Caitlan Coleman, in a video
Press TV August 27, 2016 A US drone attack has killed 22 Afghan soldiers held by Taliban militants in the southern Helmand province, while Taliban have overrun a strategic district elsewhere. Provincial officials announced the fatalities on Saturday. Taliban also confirmed the death toll, saying the airstrike had killed three of the group’s members in the Nad-e-Ali district on Thursday.