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KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — A Taliban attack on a Kabul hotel housing foreign contractors ended Monday after all three Taliban fighters were killed, around seven hours after the assault began, police said. “The operation is over now. One policeman lost his life and three others were wounded but none of the hotel staff or guests were hurt,” Kabul police chief Abdul Rahman Rahimi told reporters. © 1994-2016 Agence France-Presse
KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — A massive Taliban truck bomb struck a hotel for foreigners on the outskirts of Kabul early Monday, officials said, just days after the deadliest attack in the Afghan capital for 15 years. There were no immediate reports of casualties from the powerful bombing, which occurred close to the US-run Bagram air base north of Kabul but rattled windows several kilometres (miles) away. The attack on Northgate hotel, a heavily guarded compound […]
KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — New Taliban leader Haibatullah Akhundzada on Saturday called on the US to end its “occupation” of Afghanistan in his first message since being appointed the militant group’s chief in May. “Admit the realities instead of useless use of force and muscle… and put an end to the occupation,” Akhundzada said in a speech on the eve of Eid-al-Fitr, the Muslim festival marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. “Our […]
(Reuters) A large explosion was heard in central Kabul several hours after a suicide attack on a building of the national security agency killed dozens of people and wounded hundreds more in the Afghan capital earlier on Tuesday. Sirens could be heard but it was not immediately clear what had caused the blast or whether there were any casualties. (Reporting by James Mackenzie; Editing by Paul Tait)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — Afghanistan expects a date for direct talks with the Taliban to be set by the end of February, the foreign minister told an international group seeking to relaunch the peace process at a meeting in Kabul Tuesday. Delegates from Afghanistan, China, the US and Pakistan met in the capital for a fourth round of talks aimed at forming a path back to the nascent peace process, which was interrupted by last summer’s announcement […]
Afghan security forces exchanged fire with gunmen barricaded in a house near the Pakistan consulate in the eastern city of Jalalabad on Wednesday (January 13) after a suicide bomber blew himself up, officials said. At least six people were killed and 11 wounded in the suicide attack and subsequent fighting, they said. The attack on the consulate, which comes amid efforts to restart the stalled peace process with the Taliban and ease diplomatic tensions between […]
MANILA , July 30 — The Philippines will provide technical assistance to Afghanistan in its own peace talks with its local Islamic rebel group Taliban by sharing lessons of its own peace process, primarily in its successful peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). A delegation from Afghanistan is currently on a three-day visit to the Philippines to learn from the country’s peace process, especially in terms of promoting women empowerment in peace […]
President Aquino has condemned Tuesday’s attack on a Pakistani army-run school that left at least 141 dead, mostly children.“Today, we join the world in condemning the outrage perpetrated on innocent schoolchildren, and school officials and personnel in Peshawar, Pakistan,” President Aquino said in a statement released at Official Gazette (www.gov.ph.)“The senseless deaths of so many young lives, and the barbarism of this attack is an affront to all civilized peoples. Such an act of terror […]
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned a deadly Taliban attack on a Pakistan school on Tuesday (December 16) as “an act of horror and rank cowardice to attack defenseless children while they learn.” “No cause can justify such brutality. No grievance can excuse such horror,” Ban said. “Getting an education is every child’s right. Going to school should not have to be an act of bravery.” At least 130 people, most of them children, were killed on Tuesday after Taliban gunmen broke into […]
Taliban a claimed responsibility for a bomb attack that killed six soldiers and wounded at least ten in a highway near Kabul, Afghanistan.
(Reuters) – A U.S. military investigation of Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl’s capture by the Taliban found he had slipped away from his unit before but had always returned, raising questions about whether or not he was deserting when he disappeared in 2009, people familiar with the findings said on Thursday. Bergdahl, 28, was freed after five years as an Afghanistan war prisoner on Saturday when the Obama administration agreed to release five Taliban leaders from Guantanamo prison […]
(Reuters) – The Afghan president is angry at being kept in the dark over a deal to free five Taliban leaders in exchange for a captured U.S. soldier, and accuses Washington of failing to back a peace plan for the war-torn country, a senior source said on Monday. The five prisoners were flown to Qatar on Sunday as part of a secret agreement to release Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who left Afghanistan for Germany on the same day. The […]
