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Afghan Taliban adopting Indian melodies for their nasheeds: Report

Taliban security personnel offer prayers along a hillside in Charkint district of Balkh province.
Published on Sept 04, 2024 10:32 am IST

Biden administration blames Donald Trump over chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal

US President Joe Biden.
Published on Apr 07, 2023 02:25 am IST

Afghan agents pour 3,000 litres of liquor into Kabul canal

Representative Image
Published on Jan 02, 2022 05:48 pm IST

US special envoy for Afghanistan on India visit, meets NSA and foreign secretary

Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla meets US special representative for Afghanistan, Thomas West
Published on Nov 16, 2021 07:51 pm IST

Taliban set hard conditions for peace talks with Afghan govt

Taliban fighters stand on a vehicle along the roadside in Kandahar on Friday.
Published on Aug 14, 2021 11:19 am IST

Afghan peace talks to open in Doha, 19 years after 9/11 triggered war

Abdullah Abdullah, Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation, talks with the media at Kabul International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Updated on Sept 12, 2020 06:30 am IST

Taliban to halt military operations over 3-day Eid holiday

An Afghan man wearing a protective face mask walks past a wall painted with photo of Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. envoy for peace in Afghanistan, and Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the leader of the Taliban delegation, in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Updated on Jul 28, 2020 09:59 pm IST

Taliban set to release first prisoners in fragile Afghan exchange

A man wearing a facemask as a precautionary measure against the COVID-19 novel coronavirus walk past a wall painted with images of US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad (L) and Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar (R), in Kabul April 5, 2020.
Updated on Apr 12, 2020 02:50 pm IST

The Taliban has trumped the US in Afghanistan | Analysis

Perhaps not in their wildest dreams had the American leadership over the past two decades expected this photo-op, where US Special Representative for Afghanistan, ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, sat at the same table, in front of the world, and shook hands with the Taliban, agreeing to a gradual withdrawal of US troops and their allies.
Updated on Mar 03, 2020 05:25 pm IST

Why Trump reached out to Taliban, why he pulled back, and what next

In order to attempt discerning what US President DonaldTrump may do next, it may be useful to consider his instinctive approaches to the US involvement in Afghanistan
Updated on Sept 10, 2019 06:42 pm IST

Taliban car bomb explosion kills US soldier, 10 civilians in Kabul

Resolute Support (RS) forces remove a destroyed vehicle after a car bomb explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019. The Afghan government says at least 10 civilians are dead and another 42 wounded after a Taliban suicide car bombing rocked the Afghan capital near a neighborhood housing the U.S. Embassy and the NATO Resolute Support mission. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
Updated on Sept 06, 2019 12:58 am IST

Afghan panel will decide final deal with Taliban: Tahir Qadiry

Paramilitary soldiers drag barbwire as they prepare to impose curfew in Srinagar, Aug. 7, 2019.
Updated on Jun 12, 2020 12:43 am IST

Why India needs to keep a close eye on the progress in the US-Taliban talks

US special representative for Afghan peace and reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad, has so far not seen India as central to his efforts
Updated on May 06, 2019 09:53 pm IST

How the present Afghanistan knot evokes memories of 1989

Much like the Soviet Union did in the late 1980s, the United States now contemplates the end of its longest ever military engagement
Updated on Apr 10, 2019 10:00 am IST

US-Taliban talks: A road to nowhere

The acceptable fig leaf is that Afghanistan would not be used to launch attacks on the United States
Published on Mar 25, 2019 08:52 pm IST

One of seven Indian engineers abducted in Afghanistan returns

The Indians were travelling in a largely Taliban-controlled area when they were abducted from their vehicle last year.
Updated on Mar 19, 2019 12:17 am IST

‘Don’t want interim government in Afghanistan,’ India tells US

US Special Envoy Zalmay Khalilzad at a discussion on "The Prospects for Peace in Afghanistan" at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) in Washington, DC, on February 8, 2019 .
Updated on Mar 16, 2019 04:47 pm IST

Over 100 killed in Taliban attack on Afghan security base

At least 12 people were killed Monday in a Taliban-claimed attack on a military compound in central Afghanistan.
Updated on Jan 21, 2019 09:48 pm IST

US envoy hopes for peace deal with Taliban in 2019: Report

The US special envoy to Afghanistan hopes to cement a peace deal with Taliban insurgents by April 2019, local media reported on Sunday.
Updated on Nov 18, 2018 06:11 pm IST

Taliban launch sneak attack at night to seize Afghan city, kill at least 14, say officials

In this photograph taken January 23, 2010, Taliban fighters pose during a patrol in Ghazni province.
Updated on Aug 10, 2018 04:24 pm IST

11 killed in attack on education department compound in Afghanistan

Firefighters work at the site of a deadly suicide attack in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar province, Afghanistan on Tuesday.
Updated on Jul 11, 2018 11:48 pm IST

Swaraj seeks Afghan govt’s help in securing release of 7 abducted Indians

Official sources said the Afghan foreign minister assured Sushma Swaraj that his government would make all possible efforts to rescue the abducted Indian engineers.
Updated on May 07, 2018 11:18 pm IST

Afghan Taliban announce fresh offensive in apparent snub to peace efforts

Afghan security forces stand next to Taliban militants as they are to the media in Ghazni province on April 14, 2018. Afghan security forces arrested five Taliban militants during an operation in Ghazni province.
Updated on Apr 25, 2018 11:52 pm IST

Kabul accepts offer to renew talks with Taliban, says Pakistan PM Abbasi

Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani and Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi inspect the guard of honour at the presidential palace in Kabul on April 6, 2018.
Updated on Apr 07, 2018 04:56 pm IST

US defence secy Jim Mattis says signs indicate Taliban open to Afghan peace talks

US defence secretary Jim Mattis lands in Kabul on March 13, 2018 on an unannounced trip to Afghanistan.
Updated on Mar 13, 2018 06:03 pm IST

Irreconcilable guns need to be silenced in Afghanistan: India tells UNSC

Afghan security personnel arrive at a site after a car bomb targeted foreign troops in Kabul on March 2.
Updated on Mar 09, 2018 12:07 pm IST