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At least eight Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers were killed in a USA airstrike at an army checkpoint in eastern Logar province early on Monday, according to local media reports.

At least eight Afghan soldiers have been killed in a USA air strike on an army checkpoint in Logar province south of Kabul, Afghan officials say.

The U.S. forces carried out an airstrike targeting the Afghan National Army (ANA) check post in central Logar province of Afghanistan.

Afghan officials are holding talks with Taliban representatives in the Pakistani capital in their first official face-to-face discussions, which the Afghan president said Tuesday were aimed at starting full-fledged negotiations.

Now, even as the Taliban are making some of their biggest gains on the battlefield in years, they have appeared more willing to talk.

The first officially acknowledged peace talks between representatives of the Afghan Taliban and the government in Kabul have ended with an agreement to meet again after the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, Pakistan said on Wednesday.

“There’re a few Taliban who still don’t want peace”. As the insurgency rages in Afghanistan, the Taliban’s leadership has taken refuge in Pakistan. That will be difficult because fighters are spread across Afghanistan and Pakistan, he said.

President Barack Obama had announced his intention to pull out all but 5,500 troops by year’s end.

Government representatives struck a positive note after returning from their first face-to-face talks with militant commanders held on Tuesday in Pakistan aimed at ending the Taliban’s 13-year insurgency.

Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister Hekmat Karzai, who attended the meeting in Pakistan, said that if there were differences within the Taliban, Kabul was not concerned.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Foreign Office spokesperson Qazi M. Khalilullah said on Thursday that Prime Minister Nawaz Shar…

An Afghan government delegation has arrived in Pakistan to hold direct talks with representatives of the Taliban militant group. Pakistan has always been accused by Afghan officials of nurturing the Taliban and using them as proxies to destabilize Afghanistan and maintain...

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