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U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper says that the U.S. and the Taliban have negotiated a proposal for a seven-day reduction of violence in Afghanistan.
2020-02-13

Taliban militants say they have kidnapped 27 local peace activists in Farah Province as they were traveling from Herat Province.
2019-12-25

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis makes an unannounced visit to Afghanistan, to attempt to discuss peace with the Taliban, which has declined such talks with the Afghan government.
2018-09-7

A suicide bombing kills at least 14 people, mostly police officers, in Lashkargah, Helmand Province, as Taliban insurgents advance upon the Afghan city.
2016-10-10

Suspect Taliban militants kill nine and kidnap 170 in an attack on three passenger buses in Kunduz, Afghanistan.
2016-05-31

Taliban militants attack government offices in the southern Helmand Province of Afghanistan, with at least 10 killed, including seven of the attackers.
2016-03-9

A suicide bomber kills at least 13 people and injures 19 in Afghanistan's Parwan province. The Taliban claims responsibility.
2016-02-22

Several Taliban insurgents storm into Kandahar International Airport and engage Afghan security forces in a firefight.
2015-12-8

The Afghan government claims that Taliban leader Mohammad Omar died in April 2013 in Pakistan of natural causes.
2015-07-29

Taliban fighters are suspected of being responsible for a bus explosion that kills at least nine people and injures more than twenty others in Maidan Wardak Province, Afghanistan.
2013-04-8