Reuters - Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil, a former right hand man to the reclusive, one-eyed leader of the Taliban, believes there is only one way to end a decade of fighting in Afghanistan. Return the hardline Islamists to power.[Read more...]
AP - A suicide attacker with a bomb in his turban posed as a Taliban peace envoy and assassinated a former Afghan president who for the past year headed a government council seeking a political settlement with the insurgents.[Read more...]
AP - A suicide bomber posing as a Taliban peace envoy assassinated a former Afghan president who for the past year headed a government council trying to negotiate a political settlement with the insurgents.[Read more...]
KABUL, Afghanistan—Former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani, the official in charge of peace talks with the Taliban, was killed in his home on Tuesday in a serious blow to efforts to reach a political solution to the 10-year-old U.S.-led war. Another senior government official in negotiation attempts, Mohammed Masoom Stanekzai, was wounded in the attack, [...]
Mujahideen leader Jalaluddin Haqqani Photo: AP By Dean Nelson, South Asia Editor 1:50PM BST 17 Sep 2011 The statement was made by Sirajuddin Haqqani, the son of the legendary Mujahideen leader Jalaluddin Haqqani [...]
Reuters - The Haqqani network, one of the most feared insurgent groups in Afghanistan, would take part in peace talks with the Kabul government and the United States only if the Taliban did, its leader Sirajuddin Haqqani told Reuters on Saturday.[Read more...]
KABUL—The Taliban marked the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by detonating a powerful truck bomb that ripped through a major military base in eastern Afghanistan near the capital Kabul, killing five Afghan civilians and injuring 77 American troops. Enlarge ImageClose Associated Press Debris is seen outside the gates of Combat Outpost [...]
Reuters - When Ghulum Nabi’s father heard U.S.-backed troops toppled Afghanistan’s Taliban after the September 11, 2001, attacks, he rushed to their family home in an Afghan refugee camp in Pakistan to spread the news.[Read more...]
An Afghan bid to persuade Taliban fighters to lay down their arms has made “modest” progress so far, with about 10 percent of insurgents switching sides, a British general said Thursday.[Read more...]
A soldier watches over the border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan Photo: GETTY 1:47PM BST 27 Aug 2011 It was the latest of a series of attacks that Pakistani officials say have been launched [...]
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