Afghanistan


  • Karzai “was very angry” when he heard that the Pakistanis had picked up Taliban deputy leader Mullah Baradar, an adviser said.

    1 day ago

    Taliban chief 'captured doing secret deal'
    The Taliban’s deputy leader was holding secret talks with the Afghan government when he was captured in Pakistan, and his arrest infuriated President Hamid Karzai, it emerged today.
  • 4 days ago

    At least 30 dead in Kandahar blast
    A suicide squad detonated bombs at a newly fortified prison, police headquarters and two other locations in Afghanistan today, killing at least 30 people in the largest city of the southern Taliban heartland.

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