Taliban Provincial Governor

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  Taliban Members Are Now Governors, Police Chiefs In Afghanistan

  The Taliban appointed 44 of its members to key roles including provincial governors and police chiefs on Sunday, a key step in shoring up its governance as the country grapples with growing security and economic problems.

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  Taliban Claim Control Of Panjshir, Promise Government 'Soon': 10 Points

  The Taliban today claimed victory over the Afghan Resistance in the holdout Panjshir Valley and promised to announce a new government soon in Afghanistan. Images on social media showed the Taliban putting up a flag at the provincial Governor's office

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  Taliban Provincial Governor Vows To Fight ISIS

  As a Taliban commander, he spent years battling the former Afghan government. Now, with his hardline movement back in power, Mullah Neda Mohammad vows to continue fighting against rival jihadists, the ISIS group.

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  Taliban Capture Sixth Afghan Provincial Capital, Aibak: Deputy Governor

  The Taliban on Monday seized a sixth Afghan provincial capital in less than a week, overrunning the northern city of Aibak, its deputy governor and an insurgent spokesman said.

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  Afghan Army Helicopter Crashes, Killing 25 On Board: Officials

  An Afghan army helicopter carrying 25 people crashed in western Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing all those on board, officials said. The aircraft crashed due to "bad weather" in Anar Dara district, Farah provincial governor spokesman Nasir Mehri said, but the Taliban claimed its terrorists brought it down. Both pilots and 23 passengers were killed...

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  30 Afghan Soldiers Killed By Taliban In First Big Attack Since Ceasefire

  Taliban terrorists killed 30 members of the Afghan security forces in an ambush in the western province of Badghis on Wednesday, the provincial governor said, their first major attack since a ceasefire for the Eid al-Fitr holiday.

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  Afghan Political Crisis Deepens As Powerful Governor Refuses To Leave Post

  Afghan President Ashraf Ghani's bid to oust one of the country's most powerful provincial governors has run into strong resistance that has deepened political uncertainty just as Washington steps up its campaign against the Taliban insurgency.

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  Gunmen Attack State TV Station In Afghanistan, 2 Blow Themselves Up

  Gunmen attacked a building of Afghan state television in the eastern city of Jalalabad on Wednesday and engaged in a gun battle with security forces, the provincial governor's spokesman said.

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  Afghanistan Taliban Seize Kunduz City Centre in Milestone Gain

  Taliban fighters battled their way into the centre of Kunduz city in northern Afghanistan on Monday and seized the provincial governor's office, in one of the militants' biggest territorial gains in 14 years of war, witnesses and officials said.

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  US, Afghan Soldiers Killed in Firefight Between Afghan, NATO Forces

  An American and an Afghan soldier were killed on Wednesday when a firefight broke out between Afghan and NATO coalition forces at a compound where a senior US diplomat met a provincial governor in eastern Afghanistan, police and US sources said.

• Taliban Detonate Truck Bombs in Central Afghanistan, 18 Killed

  Taliban insurgents detonated two powerful truck bombs outside the office of Afghanistan's spy agency and a police compound in the central town of Ghazni on Thursday, killing 18 people and wounding around 150, the provincial governor said.

• Taliban attack kills 19 Afghan soldiers, more missing: official

  The Taliban attacked an Afghan army base in the country's eastern Kunar province early on Sunday, killing 19 soldiers and kidnapping seven, the spokesman for the provincial governor said.

• Taliban attack Afghan courthouse, leaving 53 dead

  A provincial governor says at least 53 people, including nine attackers, have been killed in a daylong gun-battle in western Afghanistan.