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  28 paramilitary cops killed in Afghanistan Taliban attack

  Agence France-Presse . Kabul | Updated at 12:31pm on September 24, 2020

  The Taliban have killed 28 paramilitary policemen in fighting in southern Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday, the latest losses in an ongoing siege of a government-controlled...

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  Taliban team in Islamabad for talks with Pak officials

  Agence France-Presse . Islamabad | Updated at 11:42pm on August 24, 2020

  Pakistan has invited key members of the Taliban’s negotiating team to Islamabad, where senior officials will this week press them on the importance of starting...

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  Afghan peace talks expected in days as prisoner release approved

  Agence France-Presse . Kabul | Updated at 10:37pm on August 10, 2020

  Afghan peace talks are expected to begin within days after authorities announced Monday they would soon start releasing hundreds of Taliban prisoners accused of brutal...

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  Taliban car bomb attack on Afghan intel office kills 11

  Agence France-Presse . Mazar-i-Sharif | Updated at 10:27pm on July 13, 2020

  At least 11 security personnel were killed Monday in an attack claimed by the Taliban on a rural office of Afghanistan’s intelligence agency, officials said....

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  Taliban raids on Afghan security posts kill 18

  Agence France-Presse . Mazar-i-Sharif | Updated at 12:55am on June 18, 2020

  Taliban fighters killed at least 18 Afghan security personnel Wednesday in two attacks on checkpoints in the north, officials said, the latest violence ahead of...

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  11 militiamen killed in Afghanistan

  Agence France-Presse . Kunduz | Updated at 10:39pm on June 06, 2020

  A roadside bomb in northern Afghanistan killed 11 pro-government militiamen when it tore through a truck in a Saturday pre-dawn attack that officials blamed on...

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  Roadside bomb kills 7 in Afghanistan

  Agence France-Presse . Kunduz | Updated at 09:50pm on June 02, 2020

  Seven civilians were killed by a roadside bomb linked to the Taliban in northern Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday, even as authorities pressed for peace talks...

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  Afghan head of peace talks says ready for dialogue with Taliban

  Agence France-Presse . Kabul | Updated at 11:04pm on May 30, 2020

  A top Afghan official appointed to lead the much-awaited peace talks with the Taliban said Saturday his team was ready to start ‘at any moment’...

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  14 Afghan security force members killed

  Agence France-Presse . Kabul | Updated at 11:05pm on May 29, 2020

  Taliban fighters stormed an Afghan border post Friday, killing at least 14 security force members, the insurgents and officials said, the latest in a series...

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  14 Afghan forces killed in Taliban attacks

  Agence France-Presse . Kabul | Updated at 11:10pm on May 28, 2020

  Fourteen members of the Afghan security forces were killed in two separate attacks Thursday in the first deadly assaults officials have blamed on the Taliban...