Afghan govt to offer economic incentives to Taliban fighters who switch sides in the war The Afghan government is crafting a plan to ...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Friday marked the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha with a call on the Taliban and other Islamist insurgents ...
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar issued a statement Saturday telling people of the West not to listen to U.S. President Barack Obama's justifications of war and vowing to defeat NATO troops like other invaders of history. In a statement ...
Taliban supreme leader Mullah Omar is reasserting direct control over the militant group, ordering attacks and shuffling field commanders in Afghanistan, The Wall Street Journal has reported. Citing unnamed US officials and insurgents in Afghanistan, the newspaper said this represents a change ...
Afghan women pray at the grave of Saint Ali Mofaq in Herat, Afghanistan, 29 April 2009. According to the media reports on 29 April, the deputy of the Afghan Taliban's supreme leader Mullah Omar has announced that the militants would launch a ...
The United States supports Afghan government efforts to reconcile with insurgents but not with Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban leader who harbored Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, a Pentagon spokesman said Wednesday. "We as a government do not believe that Mullah Omar ...
A Taliban commander and at least 15 others died in a suspected US missile strike on a militant training camp in Pakistan's tribal belt bordering Afghanistan, officials said Monday. The attack came hours before officials and tribal leaders from both countries met ...
A Taliban commander and at least 15 others died in a suspected US missile strike on a militant training camp in Pakistan's tribal belt bordering Afghanistan, officials said on Monday. The attack came hours before officials and tribal leaders from both countries ...
A suspected US missile strike on a militant training camp in Pakistan's tribal belt bordering Afghanistan killed a top Taliban commander and at least 15 other people, officials said Monday. The attack was the latest in a series on Pakistani soil which ...
EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana welcomed Thursday a move by Afghan President Hamid Karzai to reach out to the Taliban but rejected talks with those who opposed peace. "I think that contacts should be broadened with people who are ready to ...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Tuesday he had asked the king of Saudi Arabia to help engage the Taliban militia in peace talks, though the discussions have not yet started. The US-backed Karzai said Afghan envoys had made repeated trips to the ...
Taliban supremo Mullah Mohammad Omar on Tuesday offered international forces safe passage if they withdrew from Afghanistan and ordered his fighters to drop certain tactics, such as attacks in mosques. In a traditional message for the Muslim Eid al-Fitr festival posted on ...
