Afghan President Ashraf Ghani excoriated Pakistan on Monday about a recently occurred insurgent attacks in the capital city of Afghanistan killing at least 56.
The new Taliban leader scored an important victory Thursday, however, when al Qaeda boss Ayman al-Zawahiri – one of the most prominent jihadists in the world – pledged allegiance to the Taliban.
A suspected suicide auto bombing at a busy intersection near the entrance to Kabul’s worldwide airport today has killed at least five people and wounded another 16, said Afghan officials.
“Pakistan condemns these deadly attacks in Afghanistan in the strongest terms”, the ministry said, adding that Pakistan will continue to support and facilitate an “Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace and reconciliation process” with the Taliban.
“The impediment to greater and more enhanced cooperation between Iran and Pakistan will have been removed, through the removal of sanctions and that is why the work on the Iran-Pakistan pipeline could go ahead more expeditiously”, he said following talks with Aziz and...
Pakistan, which is believed to have strong influence over the Taliban, had been mediating peace talks launched last month, but postponed them indefinitely after the announcement of Mullah Omar’s death.
A vehicle bomb exploded at the entrance Kabul’s the global airport Monday, killing at least five people in the latest bloodshed following a 24-hour blitz of Taliban bombings and attacks last week.
At least five people were killed Monday when a Taliban suicide auto bomber struck near the entrance of Kabul’s worldwide airport, the latest in a wave of lethal bombings in the Afghan capital.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing that killed dozens of cadets at the police academy but no claim was made for the other attacks.
A auto bomb exploded at the entrance Kabul’s the worldwide airport Monday, killing at least five people in the latest bloodshed following a 24-hour blitz of Taliban bombings and attacks last week.
KABUL-At least five people were killed when a auto bomb exploded near the entrance of Afghanistan’s main global airport on Monday, continuing a wave of violence that has left more than 50 people dead in Kabul since last week.
The Taliban are stepping up their summer offensive, launched in late April, amid a bitter leadership dispute following the announcement of the death of longtime supremo Mullah Omar.
Following the death of longtime Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, a Taliban spokesman has confirmed that Mullah Akhtar Mohammad has been named as the group’s new leader.