Abdur Rahman, 23, also known as Hafiz Khalid, died driving a vehicle laden with explosives into an Afghan military base in the town of Gereshk, north of the provincial capital Lashkar Gah, Qari Ahmadi, the Taliban’s main spokesman for southern Afghanistan, said.
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In a statement marking Eid al-Fitr, the festival at the end of the holy month of Ramadan, Taliban leader Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada combined defiant calls for the U.S. to get out of Afghanistan with more conciliatory messages
The 113 of the 122 former prisoners confirmed by US intelligence agencies to have “re-engaged” were released by Obama’s predecessor, George W Bush
In an open letter to the new US president, published on one of its official web pages, the insurgent movement said the United States had lost credibility after spending $1 trillion on a fruitless entanglement
Malala Yousafzai would not sit down and watch how the Pakistani radical Muslims deprived girls the right to formal education. For years, the Taliban blew up schools, where girls studied almost on a daily basis
The bomber blew himself up near an entrance to Gulshan-e- Iqbal Park, close to a children’s play area on Sunday evening
They said this was as a result of the major battle between rival factions over the leadership of the militant group.
They said the two factions had pledged allegiance to different leaders following the death of Taliban supreme leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar
It said 148 of those released were convicted of security-related related crimes, indicating that they were mostly Taliban.
It said others were jailed for a wider range of criminal activities.
Boko Haram made over $70 million from ransoms collected for kidnappings between 2006 and 2011, it is believed