The Trump administration's emerging deal with the Taliban has the potential to bring greater stability to Afghanistan, after an 18-year inconclusive war in that country.
The number of present Afghan security forces is at the lowest level since 2015, according to the Pentagon’s latest Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction [SIGAR] report that chronicles the American and NATO-led mission to create a fully capable Afghan fighting force.
An Afghan official says four police officers were killed and two others wounded when Taliban militants attacked a security checkpoint in the western province of Farah.
Including foreign rebels, dozens anti-government militias were killed during military operations conducted by Afghan security forces in western Herat province.
At least 79 militants have been killed and 57 others wounded in multiple extensive military crackdowns conducted by the Afghan security forces in the past 24 hours, security official said Sunday.
At least 151 Taliban militants were killed in counter-terrorism operations during the past 24 hours across Afghanistan, said a Defense Ministry statement on Tuesday.
Two Taliban fighters were killed during a raid in Bala Boluk district of Farah province, sources said, as cited by the Khaama Press News Agency. About 1,000 pounds of Hashish and a cache of weapons were destroyed during the operation.
Afghan security forces have arrested 30 militants loyal to the Taliban group in the southern Kandahar province, provincial Governor Hayatullah Hayat said Tuesday.
At least two people have been slightly injured after clashes erupted between the provincial council members of Herat province in the west of Afghanistan.
An Afghan security forces raid against Taliban fighters in eastern Nangarhar province mistakenly killed at least six civilians, including a woman and two children, provincial officials said Saturday.
About six militants were killed and four wounded after Afghan security forces launched a night raid operation in the country's northern province of Kunduz overnight, a local official said Saturday.
Clashes between the ISIS militants and the Taliban have forced tens of thousands of civilians to flee their homes in two provinces in eastern Afghanistan.
At least six militants have been killed and 11 others sustained injuries as a clash erupted between security forces and the Taliban fighters in Shamulzayi district of the southern Zabul province, said an army statement released here Monday.
Afghan Taliban insurgents are battling fighters loyal to ISIS over control of territory in eastern Afghanistan in some of the heaviest clashes over the past year between the rival militants, officials said on Wednesday.
The Archto and Bazar Bashi villages in Sancharak district of northern Sar-e-Pul province collapsed to the hand of the Taliban militants, a local official confirmed on Monday.
Reacting to Taliban’s announcement of their spring offensive, NATO’s Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan on Saturday said the rebels chose war over peace and the alliance was also ready to fight them.
