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A close aide to late Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar said the newly elected leader of the militant group faces significant opposition from within.
Pakistan has announced that peace talks between Afghan government negotiators and the Taliban have been postponed after the reported death of Mullah Omar.
The Taliban has rejected reports that a fresh round of peace talks has been planned with the Afghan government this week.
A spokesman for Afghanistan’s intelligence agency has said that Mullah Mohammad Omar is dead, although no official confirmation of the Taliban leader's death has been issued by the Afghan government.
A government official in Afghanistan’s northeastern province of Badakhshan has said that a group of about 100 Taliban fighters attacked several security outposts in the mountainous region in the past two days.
The second round of peace talks between Afghan and Taliban officials will be held on July 30.
A spokesman for U.S. military forces in Afghanistan says the pace of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of 2016 has yet to be determined and will be decided in the autumn after an assessment of the capabilities of Afghan government forces.
Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar has hailed as "legitimate" peace talks with the Kabul government.
The Islamic State group on July 13 released an audio recording it claims is the voice movement's leader for Afghanistan, contradicting reports he had been killed by a U.S. drone strike three days earlier.
The Afghan intelligence agency says the leader of the Islamic State (IS) extremist group in the Afghanistan and Pakistan region has been killed in a air strike.
Afghanistan’s parliament has rejected the country’s first-ever female nominee for the Supreme Court.
An Afghan appeals court has overturned death sentences handed down to four men for their part in the mob killing of a woman, falsely accused of burning a copy of the Koran.
Suicide attacks targeted a foreign military convoy and a police headquarters in Afghanistan on June 30, killing at least three and wounding nearly 60 people.
A suicide bomber and six gunmen staged a brazen attack on the Afghan parliament, killing two civilians. All of the attackers were killed by Afghan security forces. The Taliban claimed responsibility.
Afghan officials say government forces have regained control of a district in the northeastern province of Badakhshan.
Afghan police say the death toll has risen to 18 from a roadside bomb that exploded in southern Afghanistan on June 20.
Security forces in northern Afghanistan say they are preparing to launch a counteroffensive against Taliban militants after government troops took control of a district in the country’s northeast.
Officials say "intense fighting" is under way in northeast Afghanistan as government forces attempt to retake a district overrun by Taliban militants.
Officials say that at least three security personnel and eight Taliban fighters were killed when a district in northeastern Afghanistan fell under Taliban control after rebels attacked security checkpoints on June 6.
Five Taliban militants have been killed in an overnight battle when they tried to storm a police compound in Afghanistan’s eastern city of Jalalabad in an attack that began with a suicide car bomber driving into the facility’s gate.
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