Islamic Emirate

Taliban says foreign troops in Afghanistan to withdraw within 18 months as talks with US made ‘significant progress'

Taliban officials said US negotiators on Saturday agreed on a draft peace pact setting out the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan within 18 months, potentially ending the United States’ longest war.

Six Taliban inmates executed by Afghan government

Six Afghan Taliban inmates on death row were hanged today, government sources said, in the first set of executions endorsed by President Ashraf Ghani since he came to power in 2014.