(BNA): Special Representative of UN’ Secretary-General in Afghanistan Jean Arnault met with Iranian Foreign Minister’s special envoy for Afghanistan Mohammad Ebrahim Taherian in Tehran on Monday, Iranian media reported. Jean Arnault heading a delegation arrived in Tehran to meet with Iranian officials and discuss Afghanistan’s issues, according to local media. During the meeting, the two
(BNA): One hundred and twenty-six Taliban insurgents have been killed in the past 24 hours in clashes with security and defense forces across the country. Ruhollah Ahmadzai, spokesman for the Ministry of National Defense, told B NA, 126 Taliban were killed and 79 others were wounded in clashes and attacks by defense and security forces
(TOLO News): in the military, intelligence and diplomatic channels to make sure that Afghanistan never again becomes a base from which terrorist groups would not attack the US – but he did not go into details about it. Sullivan made the remarks at a press briefing on Monday in response to a question on US’s
(BNA): 14 Taliban insurgents were killed in Jawzjan and a car full of enemy explosives was destroyed. The insurgents gathering in the Quduq area of Qushitipa district of Jawzjan province was targeted by the country’s air force, in which 9 Taliban insurgents were killed and four motorcycles and their weapons were destroyed. Also, a car
(TOLO News): The center of Dawlat Shah district in the northern province of Faryab fell to the Taliban on Monday evening, a member of the provincial council, Abdul Ahad Elbek said on Tuesday. Elbek said that a number of the security forces have evacuated the center of the district after heavy clashes with the Taliban,
(Pajhwok): US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad is due in Kabul, Doha and the region, the State Departments said on Sunday. Khalilzad and an US inter-agency delegation, including National Security Council, Department of Defense and USAID representatives departed on June 4 for travel to the region. The delegation will meet in Kabul
(Afghanistan Times): Taliban insurgents show no sign of reducing the level of violence in Afghanistan to facilitate peace negotiations with the government, and appear to be trying to strengthen their military position as leverage, with the “unprecedented violence” of 2020 carrying into 2021, UN experts said in a new report circulated the other day. The
(Afghanistan Times): At least 181 Taliban insurgents were killed and 83 others wounded in a series of military operations conducted by the Afghan security forces in different provinces across the country in the past 24 hours, the defense ministry said Saturday. Backed by the Afghan Air Forces, the Afghan security forces conducted operations and counter
(Afghanistan Times): Three districts are purportedly fallen into the Taliban as armed conflicts have been intensifying across the country. A local source in the eastern province of Nuristan, talking on condition of anonymity, said that the security forces retreated from Do Ab and Mandawal districts of the province. The source denied giving further information in
(Afghanistan Times): An airstrike killed 13 public uprising forces in northern Badakhshan province including a commander, residents claimed on Saturday. The airstrike was conducted on Friday in Kohsan district of the province. According Mahmood Rahman, a member of the Badakhshan provincial council, a commander of the public uprising forces was killed alongside his comrades in