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To Fight "Enemy Propaganda", Taliban's Baradar Seen On TV With Written Statement
Afghanistan's acting deputy prime minister Abdul Ghani Baradar appeared in a video interview posted on Wednesday to deny reports that he was hurt in a clash with a rival faction of the Taliban.
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Why The Taliban Government Is Still Not In Place
Rifts within the Taliban are delaying a new Afghan government, sources said Monday, blaming increasing discord between the Islamist group's Doha and Haqqani factions and the latter's reported refusal to accept Akhundzada as the 'supreme leader'.
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Afghan Taliban Announces Death Of Haqqani Network Founder
The Afghan Taliban have announced the death of Jalaluddin Haqqani, the head of one of the most potent militant factions operating in Afghanistan, the SITE monitoring group said Tuesday.
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US Suspends 'Security Assistance' To Pakistan
The United States has suspended its security assistance to Pakistani forces, the State Department said Thursday, demanding "decisive action" against Taliban factions based in the country.
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American Woman, Canadian Husband And Children Freed In Pakistan After 5-year Hostage Ordeal
The rescue of an American woman, her Canadian husband and their three children who were held by a faction of Taliban-linked militants for more than five years has raised hopes of a possible warming in the long fraught relationship between the United States and Pakistan.
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13 Dead, Dozens Injured In Twin Blasts At Court In Pakistan's Mardan
At least 13 people were killed and more than 50 wounded after a suicide bomber attacked a court in the Pakistani city of Mardan on Friday, police said, the latest assault targeting Pakistan's legal community.
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Pakistani Taliban Faction Denies Links To ISIS After Hospital Bombing
A Pakistani Taliban breakaway faction that claimed responsibility for the bombing of a hospital last week said on Tuesday it had no links with ISIS, whose leadership also said it was behind the attack.
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Suicide Bomber Kills At Least 63 At Pakistan Hospital
A suicide bomber in Pakistan killed at least 63 people and wounded dozens more in an attack on mourners gathered at a hospital in Quetta, according to officials in the violence-plagued southwestern province of Baluchistan.
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Pakistan Mourns Murdered Singer Amjad Sabri In Attack Claimed By Taliban
Thousands of mourners crowded the funeral procession of a beloved Pakistani singer on Thursday, a day after he was gunned down in the Karachi in an attack claimed by a faction of the Pakistani Taliban.
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Blood-Stained Swings Where Lahore Children Died: Details Of Deadly Attack
Twenty-nine children are among the nearly 70 people killed by a suicide bomber who attacked a Pakistani park crowded with families on Easter Sunday. A faction of the Taliban which has earlier pledged loyalty to the Islamic State has said the attack was intended to target Christians.
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Park Blast Near Children's Rides Targeted Christians On Easter, Says Pakistani Taliban Faction
A breakaway Pakistani faction of the militant Taliban group has claimed responsibility for an Easter Sunday bombing in a park in the eastern city of Lahore that killed 65 people.
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Fierce Clashes Between Rival Afghan Taliban Factions: Officials
Fierce clashes have erupted between two rival Taliban groups in southern Afghanistan, officials said today, reportedly leaving dozens dead in the first internecine fighting since a breakaway faction of the Islamist movement appointed its own leader.
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Afghan Taliban Splinter Faction Picks Rival Leader
A splinter faction of the Afghan Taliban has selected its own leader to challenge the new chief of the terror group, two insurgent commanders said today, raising fresh doubts about chances of breathing life into stalled peace talks.
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'Islamic State' Militants say attacked Pakistan-Afghan Border Post
Pakistan militants who have pledged allegiance to Islamic State said on Sunday they had attacked a paramilitary checkpoint along the Afghan border, in the first such assault claimed by a former faction of the Taliban in several months.
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'Islamic State' Militants Say Attacked Pakistan: Afghan Border Post
Pakistan militants who have pledged allegiance to Islamic State said today they had attacked a paramilitary checkpoint along the Afghan border, in the first such assault claimed by a former faction of the Taliban in several months.
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To Fight "Enemy Propaganda", Taliban's Baradar Seen On TV With Written Statement
Afghanistan's acting deputy prime minister Abdul Ghani Baradar appeared in a video interview posted on Wednesday to deny reports that he was hurt in a clash with a rival faction of the Taliban.
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Why The Taliban Government Is Still Not In Place
Rifts within the Taliban are delaying a new Afghan government, sources said Monday, blaming increasing discord between the Islamist group's Doha and Haqqani factions and the latter's reported refusal to accept Akhundzada as the 'supreme leader'.
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Afghan Taliban Announces Death Of Haqqani Network Founder
The Afghan Taliban have announced the death of Jalaluddin Haqqani, the head of one of the most potent militant factions operating in Afghanistan, the SITE monitoring group said Tuesday.
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US Suspends 'Security Assistance' To Pakistan
The United States has suspended its security assistance to Pakistani forces, the State Department said Thursday, demanding "decisive action" against Taliban factions based in the country.
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American Woman, Canadian Husband And Children Freed In Pakistan After 5-year Hostage Ordeal
The rescue of an American woman, her Canadian husband and their three children who were held by a faction of Taliban-linked militants for more than five years has raised hopes of a possible warming in the long fraught relationship between the United States and Pakistan.
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13 Dead, Dozens Injured In Twin Blasts At Court In Pakistan's Mardan
At least 13 people were killed and more than 50 wounded after a suicide bomber attacked a court in the Pakistani city of Mardan on Friday, police said, the latest assault targeting Pakistan's legal community.
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Pakistani Taliban Faction Denies Links To ISIS After Hospital Bombing
A Pakistani Taliban breakaway faction that claimed responsibility for the bombing of a hospital last week said on Tuesday it had no links with ISIS, whose leadership also said it was behind the attack.
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Suicide Bomber Kills At Least 63 At Pakistan Hospital
A suicide bomber in Pakistan killed at least 63 people and wounded dozens more in an attack on mourners gathered at a hospital in Quetta, according to officials in the violence-plagued southwestern province of Baluchistan.
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Pakistan Mourns Murdered Singer Amjad Sabri In Attack Claimed By Taliban
Thousands of mourners crowded the funeral procession of a beloved Pakistani singer on Thursday, a day after he was gunned down in the Karachi in an attack claimed by a faction of the Pakistani Taliban.
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Blood-Stained Swings Where Lahore Children Died: Details Of Deadly Attack
Twenty-nine children are among the nearly 70 people killed by a suicide bomber who attacked a Pakistani park crowded with families on Easter Sunday. A faction of the Taliban which has earlier pledged loyalty to the Islamic State has said the attack was intended to target Christians.
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Park Blast Near Children's Rides Targeted Christians On Easter, Says Pakistani Taliban Faction
A breakaway Pakistani faction of the militant Taliban group has claimed responsibility for an Easter Sunday bombing in a park in the eastern city of Lahore that killed 65 people.
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Fierce Clashes Between Rival Afghan Taliban Factions: Officials
Fierce clashes have erupted between two rival Taliban groups in southern Afghanistan, officials said today, reportedly leaving dozens dead in the first internecine fighting since a breakaway faction of the Islamist movement appointed its own leader.
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Afghan Taliban Splinter Faction Picks Rival Leader
A splinter faction of the Afghan Taliban has selected its own leader to challenge the new chief of the terror group, two insurgent commanders said today, raising fresh doubts about chances of breathing life into stalled peace talks.
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'Islamic State' Militants say attacked Pakistan-Afghan Border Post
Pakistan militants who have pledged allegiance to Islamic State said on Sunday they had attacked a paramilitary checkpoint along the Afghan border, in the first such assault claimed by a former faction of the Taliban in several months.
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'Islamic State' Militants Say Attacked Pakistan: Afghan Border Post
Pakistan militants who have pledged allegiance to Islamic State said today they had attacked a paramilitary checkpoint along the Afghan border, in the first such assault claimed by a former faction of the Taliban in several months.
