TEHRAN, August 20 - The Taliban ambushed a convoy of busses Monday on a road in northern Afghanistan and took more than 100 people hostage, including women and children, in the latest brazen assault by insurgents, provincial officials said.
TEHRAN, August 20 - Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has called for a conditional cease-fire with Taliban insurgents for the duration of the Eid al-Adha holiday.
TEHRAN, August 17 - The Afghan president is visiting the embattled southeastern city of Ghazni, a week after the Taliban in a surprise attack managed to infiltrate deep into the key provincial capital and capture several areas.
TEHRAN, August 15 - Dozens of Afghan police personnel and soldiers have been killed in a Taliban attack on a military base in Afghanistan’s northern Baghlan Province, while reports from the southeastern city of Ghazni indicate security forces have managed to push the Taliban back after five days of fierce fighting.
TEHRAN, August 15 - A Taliban assault on two adjacent checkpoints in northern Afghanistan killed at least 30 soldiers and police, officials said Wednesday, as life gradually returned to normal in parts of the eastern city of Ghazni after a massive insurgent attack last week, with sporadic gunbattles still underway in some neighborhoods.
TEHRAN, August 14 - The Taliban militant group has overrun large parts of an army base in Afghanistan’s northern Province of Faryab and captured dozens of soldiers there, officials say.
TEHRAN, August 13 - Four days of ferocious fighting between Afghan forces and the Taliban over a key provincial capital has claimed the lives of about 100 Afghan policemen and soldiers and at least 20 civilians, the defense minister said Monday.
TEHRAN, August 12 - The Taliban militants have attacked the police headquarters and other government buildings in Ghazni amid their threats to seize control of the eastern Afghan city.
TEHRAN, August 12 - The Taliban militants have attacked the police headquarters and other government buildings in Ghazni amid their threats to seize control of the eastern Afghan city.
TEHRAN, August 12 - A delegation from the Afghan Taliban met officials in Uzbekistan during a five-day trip to the country last week to discuss issues including transport and power lines and peace in Afghanistan, the movement's political office said.
TEHRAN, August 12 - An Afghan official said security forces are battling the Taliban for the third straight day after the insurgents' massive attack into the key city of Ghazni.
TEHRAN, August 12 - Representatives from Afghanistan’s Taliban militant group have held talks with senior officials in Uzbekistan, reportedly discussing a range of issues including transport, power lines, and the prospect of peace in war-torn Afghanistan.
TEHRAN, August 11 -The Taliban and Afghan government forces have both claimed to have taken control of the country’s eastern city of Ghazni following fierce fighting.
TEHRAN, August 10 - Taliban fighters tried to overrun a provincial capital in Afghanistan early on Friday, hiding inside homes before slipping into city streets during the night to attack security forces and killing at least 14 policemen before being pushed back, officials said.
TEHRAN, July 30 - A Taliban official has said that a meeting with a high ranking US diplomat aimed at a ceasefire was concluded with "very positive signals."
TEHRAN, July 26 - A Taliban suicide bomber targeted a convoy belonging to the Afghan intelligence service in Kabul on Thursday, killing three officers and wounding five people, including three civilians, a security official said.
TEHRAN, July 16 - The Taliban stormed a police checkpoint in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province and killed seven policemen, a provincial official said Monday.
TEHRAN, July 11 - Thousands have flocked to the funeral of a senior Pakistani politician and a group of other activists who were killed during an anti-Taliban event in the country’s troubled northwest.
TEHRAN, June 22 - Taliban militants killed at least 16 Afghan police and two civilians in western Badghis province after their three-day ceasefire for the Eid al-Fitr holiday ended at the weekend, officials said on Friday.