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The Taliban say there will be no intra-Afghan talks if about 5,000 of their prisoners are not released.
2020-03-2

A Taliban attack on an Afghan military base in Sangin District, Helmand Province, kills at least 10 Afghan soldiers and injures 4 others.
2019-12-28

Taliban insurgents ambush an Afghan National Army checkpoint, killing 15 members of the security forces.
2019-12-24

Taliban insurgents kill 13 and injure 55 people in an attack on a police headquarters in Puli Khumri, Afghanistan, using guns and suicide vests. The Taliban's high command recently rejected a ceasefire offer from the Afghan government.
2019-05-5

The Afghan National Army abandons the western Shib Koh District after the government failed to resupply troops stationed there. The district, which borders Iran, is now effectively under Taliban control.
2018-12-12

The Taliban kills 12 members of Afghanistan's security forces who were captured in recent ambushes in the Ghazni Province on June 3 and 5.
2016-06-8

Several Sangin security force members are killed by Taliban suicide attacks, using captured military Humvee vehicles, in the southern Afghan province of Helmand.
2016-02-13

A Taliban attack on Kandahar International Airport results in at least 50 civilian and Afghan National Security Forces personnel dead and 35 injured.
2015-12-9

Carrying coffins holding the beheaded bodies of seven ethnic Hazara, thousands of demonstrators from Afghanistan's different ethnic groups - Pashtun, Tajik, Uzbek, and Hazara - march on the Presidential Palace in Kabul, urging the government to take action against the rising violence against Afghan civilians. The murders, which the United Nations denounced as a potential war crime, have fueled a growing sense of insecurity since the Taliban briefly seized control of Kunduz in late September.
2015-11-11

The Taliban announces the start of its annual spring offensive warning it would attack foreign embassies as well as military targets.
2015-04-22