By Mohammad Arif Sheva in Khaama Press, 01 Nov 2020 at 01:31 PMAt least three policemen were killed and two further wounded, including a civilian, in an explosion near a police checkpoint in Herat province Sunday morning, local authorities confirmed.The bomb was placed on a motorbike and detonated near to a police checkpoint, said Abdul Ahad Walizada, a spokesman for Herat police.Meanwhile, eyewitnesses said dozens of shops and nearby houses were damaged in the explosion.No…
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By Mohammad Arif Sheva in Khaama Press, 01 Nov 2020 at 10:00 AMAt least eight Taliban were killed and further 14 wounded in a battle with Afghan National Defense and Security Forces in Qaisar district of Faryab province Saturday night, the Ministry of Defense said in a statement. Security officials seized four IED after defusing the explosive during the operation. “8 Taliban were killed and 14 others were wounded in reciprocal attacks of ANDSF in…
By Mohammad Arif Sheva in Khaama Press, 01 Nov 2020 at 09:16 AMGeneral Command of Police Special Units carried a “clearance operation” in Mohammad Agha district of Logar province, according to the Ministry of Interior Affairs, arresting at least four “Taliban terrorists”.“A group of 4 Taliban terrorists killed during a clearance operation of the GCPSU in Mohammad Agha district of Logar,” said MoIA in a tweet. “GCPSU confiscated 1 rocket launcher, 2 AK-47 assault rifles,…
By Khaled Nikzad in TOLO News, 1 Nov, 2020 at 8:58 PMParts of Lashkargah in Helmand, Faizabad in Badakhshan and the city of Kunduz in Kunduz province have witnessed attacks by the Taliban in the last few days amidst the ongoing peace talks that have faced delays over disputed points between both sides of the negotiations. “The reason behind the war is that some soldiers have left their outposts without resistance,” Helmand provincial council member…
By Mohammad Haroon Alim in Khaama Press, 01 Nov 2020 at 11:47 AMThe Afghan government and the Taliban have agreed that Qatar will play a role in facilitating peace talks and advising negotiators to both sides. Sources in Doha says after the government and the Taliban failed to resolve their differences, it was decided that Qatar should play a mediative role. According to the reports, the Qatari government will not be able to participate in…
By Najim Rahim and Thomas Gibbons-Neff in The NY Times, Nov 1, 2020KABUL, Afghanistan — A Taliban attack, most likely carried out by a drone, killed at least four security officers in northern Afghanistan on Sunday, according to senior and local Afghan officials, representing what could be the group’s first publicly known use of the method in the 19-year war. The strike targeted the governor’s compound in Kunduz, a province that has seen heavy fighting,…
By Mohammad Haroon Alim in Khaama Press, 01 Nov 2020 at 03:32 PMKandahar security officials say more than 100 Taliban fighters have been killed in clashes with security forces in the province overnight.Kandahar police spokesman Jamal Naser Barakzai told the media that 101 members of the militant group had been killed in clashes between security forces and Taliban fighters in the Arghandab and Zherai districts of the province.He added that 64 Taliban fighters were killed…
By Mohammad Haroon Alim in Khaama Press, 01 Nov 2020 at 02:54 PMAbdul Rahman, commander of the Taliban’s Red Brigade for Nad Ali district in Helmand, was killed in an airstrike, the Ministry of Defense said.According to the Ministry of Defense, the airstrike was carried out on Saturday, where seven other Taliban fighters were confirmed dead.A statement from the Ministry of Defense said that the commander of the Taliban Red Brigade was targeted by airstrikes…
By Abdulhaq Omeri in TOLO News, 30 Oct, 2020 at 6:06 PMThe US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad on Wednesday met with senior Taliban members in Doha including the group’s deputy leader Abdul Ghani Baradar and the two sides discussed issues around the implementation of US-Taliban peace agreement and the release of remaining prisoners, said Taliban spokesman Mohammad Naeem. He said they also discussed the termination of the blacklist, the causes of the…
Report in TOLO News, 30 Oct, 2020 at 3:37 PMPresident Ashraf Ghani at a ceremony on Prophet Mohammad’s birthday on Thursday said that Quran and Islamic sharia should be the basis for the peace negotiations in Doha. Ghani said the Taliban claims that they have fought for the religion but they have made the US-Taliban deal as “basis for the talks.” He called on the Taliban to make the Holy Quran and Islamic sharia as…
report on The Frontier Post / October 30, 2020KABUL: Al-Qaeda is still “heavily embedded” within the Taliban in Afghanistan, in spite of a historic US-Taliban agreement earlier this year, a senior United Nations official has told the BBC. Earlier this year, the US signed an agreement with the Taliban committing to withdrawing all American forces from the country by next summer if the Taliban ensured groups including al-Qaeda were not able to use Afghan territory…