Afghan Taliban

'Step by step the kids start hating their family. Hatred is fuelled and they feel they have no future,' said Shaheer

Kabul has requested Islamabad to help resume peace process

US top commander in Afghanistan says support for terrorists and insurgents has to be stopped

Gen Votel urges Pakistan to ensure its soil is not used against neighbours

Call for complete withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan

Taliban claims capture of Mirza Olang village but reject reports of civilian casualties

Pakistan's support to the fight against Haqqani network and other homegrown militant groups will be reviewed

The time is running out and the Taliban will lose the chance for talks, says President Ashraf Ghani

Video was distributed by the Taliban's main spokesperson and circulated on social media sites

Bomber detonated a car packed with explosives at the gate of the police headquarters in Gardez city

Protesters enraged by spiralling insecurity have established sit-in camps in at least six locations around Kabul

Kabul is reeling from a wave of bombings and clashes

Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah escapes unhurt in bombing

ISAF and the Afghan government it supports are losing the war

The elected government in Afghanistan clings on by its fingernails

Haji Muhammad Farid was Hikmatyar's former secretary and also his father-in-law

US-led forces have been fighting in Afghanistan for almost 16 years

Over the past 18 months, Taliban insurgents have twice succeeded in seizing the town centre of Kunduz

Levels of violence have traditionally dipped over Afghanistan's cold winter months

More than 100 Afghan soldiers were killed in Friday's attack on the army base

As many 140 Afghan soldiers were killed on Friday by Taliban attackers apparently disguised in military uniforms

A US official in Washington put the toll at more than 50 killed and wounded

Meeting participants say no military solution to Afghan crisis

Public anger has grown over the episode

All three countries fear the US has no interest in bringing stability to Afghanistan

United States has decided to stay away from the April 14-15 meeting in Moscow

NATO withdrew its combat forces at the end of 2014, and under Resolute Support there are 11,000 troops

Moscow has been critical of the United States over its handling of the war in Afghanistan

Taliban spokesperson says fighters have captured police headquarters and a military base overnight

Kabul throws weight behind Russian peacemaking efforts

Afghan Taliban earned $15 million from the sale of pistachios last year

Sixteen years ago this simple pleasure would have been impossible

US and EU officials would also be invited to the next meeting of the 6-nation consultations

Taliban source says Beijing wants to play a vital role for Afghan peace

Several factions within the Taliban are vying for power

Governor of Taleh va Barfak district blames Taliban for the killing of eight hazara miners

However, the development has angered Afghan government

Zakharova said Russia, China and Pakistan had "noted the deterioration of the security situation in Afghanistan

Video had been delivered to both US and Canadian officials before being posted on YouTube late on Monday night.

Akundzada in May replaced former Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Akhtar Mansour who was killed by a US drone strike

Acting US special representative’s visit to Pakistan is also linked to development

The Afghan military has also suffered at least 2,000 deaths since January

Six mediapersons put questions to the group about war and peace efforts

They invited a group of Kabul-based journalists and analysts since they opened their Qatar office in 2013

Field commanders taken on-board about the possibility

Three senior members of Qatar-based political office wrap up their two-week visit

Politicians are in touch with Qatar office, says ex-MP

Video producers use target-like overlays to give it a video game-like feel, an effect used by Daesh in Syria, Iraq

Group claims Pakistan has arrested three key members of the Afghan Taliban

‘Pakistan’s message to all combatants is loud, clear; nobody can capture Afghanistan, and key to peace lies in talks’