A military offensive in southern Afghanistan is chasing the Taliban out of their stronghold in Kandahar province, the Afghan President's half brother said.

To step up pace of reconciliation talks, the Afghan government has opened direct contacts with Al Qaeda-linked Haqqani faction of the Taliban, which is believed to have close ties to Pakistan's milita

Peshawar: Although the Pakistani military claims it has been eliminating the Taliban presence in the Peshawar Frontier Regions (FR), the locals there have little hope, as following the end of earlier

A former Afghan President who heads a new peace council said on Thursday he’s convinced the Taliban are ready to negotiate peace after nine years of war in Afghanistan.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai confirmed holding unofficial talks with the Taliban "for quite some time," in a bid to end the nine-year war, according to an interview transcript released on Sunday.

The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the arson attack on the Nato tankers near the Akhtarabad terminal in Quetta.

Islamabad: More than 50 oil tankers carrying fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan were destroyed in two separate Taliban attacks in Pakistan, a media report said.

Twenty-five tankers were destroyed af

Pakistan's ISI is pushing the Taliban to attack US troops and their allies based in Afghanistan, the media here has said, close on the heels of a White House report that slammed Islamabad for not doin

Twenty Taliban militants, including two rebel commanders, were killed in fighting with security forces in Afghanistan, Xinhua reported on Thursday.

To starting reconciliation discussions that could pave the way to end the fighting in Afghanistan, the high-level leadership of the Taliban has reached out to senior Afghan government officials, accor