Taliban commander surrenders in Afghanistan

September 29th, 2009 KABUL - A key Taliban commander was killed in Afghanistan's Kunduz province by policemen, police said Tuesday. "Policemen shot dead Taliban key commander Mullah Rashid in Kunduz province during an operation Monday evening," said the province's Inspector General of Police Abdul Razaq Yaqubi.

September 27th, 2009 KABUL - A senior advisor at the Afghan Foreign Ministry has seconded General Stanley McChrystal's stance that the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) is still offering covert support to the Taliban in Afghanistan. Daoud Muradian said Taliban's recent resurgence in Afghanistan is being funded by Pakistan's intelligence services.

September 26th, 2009 KABUL - The Taliban have executed three civilians in Western Afghan province of Herat in an apparent bid to terrify government servicemen, the police said Saturday. "The rebels sprayed bullets and killed three brothers (of a family) on charge of spying for the government in Gazara district Friday," Ikramudin Yawar, senior police officer in west Afghanistan, told Xinhua.

August 20th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - A Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan commander, Khurshid, said to be a close ally of Mullah Fazlullah,surrendered before the District Coordination Officer Mingora at Saidu Airport along with 60 of his comrades. The Dawn quoted the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), as saying that the surrender was witnessed by a number of notables of the area, while the operation, Rah-e-Raast is continuing in Swat and Malakand Division.

July 20th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Top US commander in Afghanistan has said that they are facing difficulties in their latest military campaign against the Taliban due to lack of "insufficient cooperation" from Pakistan. General Stanley McChrystal, the commander of the International Security Assistance Force and US Forces in Afghanistan, is believed to have pursued this line in his secret visit to Islamabad over the weekend during which he met President Asif Ali Zardari and Army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani.

July 2nd, 2009 KABUL - A Taliban commander told CBS News Thursday that militants had captured one U.S. soldier and three Afghan nationals in Paktika province, near the Pakistani border.

June 27th, 2009 LAHORE - The International Security Assistance Force deputy commander, Lieutenant General Jim Dutton, has said that the Pakistan military's operation against Baitullah Mehsud is extremely important in defeating the Taliban on both sides of the Pak-Afghanistan border. The Daily Times quoted him as saying, that the troop surge in Afghanistan could push the Taliban back to their original positions, including Pakistan.

June 26th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - At least six militants, including a Taliban commander, were killed in two separate clashes in northwest Pakistan, Geo TV said Friday. The report said the security forces bombed two Taliban hideouts Thursday in the Chapri Feroz Khel and Atman Khel areas, killing at least six militants including a local Taliban commander.

June 24th, 2009 KABUL - Afghan troops killed 23 Taliban fighters in Uruzgan province, a senior military commander said Wednesday. "Acting upon intelligence report, Afghan troops backed by the US-led Coalition forces pounded Taliban militants in Chinartook area, killing 23 rebels including their commander Mullah Ismael Kuchi," commander of Afghan Corps in the region General Shir Mohammad Zazi told Xinhua.

June 11th, 2009 KABUL - A Taliban commander and more than a dozen suspected insurgents were killed in air strikes by coalition forces in Afghanistan's northwest Ghor province, a military statement said Wednesday. Mullah Mustafa, the Taliban commander who was involved in activities against the government and US-led forces in the province and neighbouring areas, was killed in the attack, the statement said.

June 2nd, 2009 KABUL - Six people were killed Tuesday in a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan's northeastern Bagram district, while a senior Taliban commander was killed in a separate incident in the country's southern Helmand province, officials said. In the latest incident, a suicide bomber blew up a civilian car in Bagram district Tuesday, 50 km north of Kabul, killing all six people in the vehicle, the interior ministry said in a statement.

May 6th, 2009 US commander: Taliban beheading led to air strikesKABUL — Amid a U.S. apology for civilian deaths in Afghanistan, the commander of U.S.

March 24th, 2009 KABUL - NATO officials are claiming that a senior Taliban leader responsible for numerous roadside bombings and suicide attacks has been killed along with nine other insurgent fighters. Maulawi Hassan, described as a well-known Taliban commander in southern Afghanistan, was killed in an attack on Saturday on his compound near Kajaki, in Helmand Province, the New York Times quoted a NATO statement, as saying.

March 23rd, 2009 KABUL - Eight policemen were killed Monday in an attack by Taliban rebels in Afghanistan's Kandahar province, a police officer said. 'The Taliban insurgents attacked a police patrol in Spin Boldak town, killing eight policemen and wounding another,' Sahib Jan, commander of the Highway Police in the region, told Xinhua.

March 21st, 2009 KABUL - Thirteen Taliban militants were killed in fighting with Afghan security forces in the southern province of Helmand, a military official said Saturday. Twentyfive people were also detained following the Friday night operation, Helmand military commander Mohidin Ghori said.