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The Taliban issued a statement claiming responsibility for the attack on the base. A suicide bomber targeted members of an irregular anti-Taliban militia, killing 25 people, according to a local police spokesman.

When countries with relations marred by hostility and distrust agree to talk, they must make an effort to create a conducive atmosphere beforehand, as otherwise talks will not only fail but the mistrust will deepen.

Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said Friday (August 7) that deceased Taliban chief Mullah Omar was neither killed nor buried in Pakistan.

“A suicide auto bomb attack at the entrance of Hamid Karzai worldwide Airport and has caused casualties both on civilians and security forces”, Danish said.

Last month, 11 Hazaras were kidnapped in northern Baghlan province, which also has been plagued by militants since the Taliban stepped up their war against Kabul in April. “Do you have a taste for digging your own graves?” After all the Afghan security forces consist...

“Since I took office, Afghans have been waiting for Pakistan to show their tangible commitment” to peace, Ghani said, speaking in Afghan Pashto.

Explosions and gunfire also erupted when Camp Integrity, a US special forces base in Kabul, came under attack late Friday, killing nine people, including a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation service member.

The statement on Monday from President Ashraf Ghani’s office also says it will not accept any “parallel political structure” opposed to the Afghan government. Mullah Omar’s death will have serious ramifications not just for the future of Afghanistan, but...

Military jets were heard flying over the centre of Kabul shortly after the Camp Integrity explosions.

A wave of attacks on Afghan army and police bases and American special forces in Kabul has killed at least 50 people and wounded hundreds, during the deadliest day in Kabul for years.

At least 50 people have been killed and hundreds wounded in a wave of attacks on the Afghan army, police and U.S. special forces in the Afghan capital Kabul.

An Afghan store clerk waits for customers at a news stand where local papers carry headlines about the new leader of the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, August 1, 2015.

– AFP pic, July 31, 2015.The new Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour has a reputation as a relative moderate who favours peace talks with the government, but his leadership already faces challenges to its legitimacy.

The foreign trooper is American and the remaining eight victims are Afghans, according to Afghan sources. “I think that was a little over-optimistic”. “Anything is possible”.

Mulla Omar’s brother, Abdul Mannan is already member of the Taliban Leadership Council, though he reportedly didn’t agree to Mansour selection as the new leader in the council’s previous meeting.