Topic: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
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Anxious to accelerate peace moves, top-level US officials have held talks with a representative of an insurgent movement led by a former Afghan ...
Insurgent-led Afghan party raises fears of unsavory leaders claiming power by ballot boxDozens of candidates in Afghanistan's parliamentary elections represent a party linked to Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a former prime minister with ties to al-Qaida who is believed to be a mastermind ...
President in 1994, Burhanuddin Rabbani; prime minister to June 28, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (term expired and not extended).. A blockade of Kabul led to fighting in northern Afghanistan over a tenuous road link to neighbouring Tajikistan. Rabbani refused to relinquish the presidency when ...
Afghan opposition figures held a final day of talks at a holiday resort in the Maldives on Friday, organised by a relative of the warlord and former Afghan premier Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.The meeting at the Paradise tourist resort island began on Thursday ...
<div id="subtitle">CIA victim said to have once rescued future Afghan President Karzai; family wants remains</div><div><p>The only prisoner known to have died in the CIA's network of secret prisons once rescued Hamid Karzai, wading through rocket ...
<div><p>The only prisoner known to have died in the CIA's network of secret prisons once rescued Hamid Karzai, wading through rocket and small-arms fire to take the wounded future president to safety in Pakistan, according to his brother and ...
The delegation represents fighters loyal to Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, 60, one of the most brutal of Afghanistan's former resistance fighters who leads a part of the insurgency against American, NATO and Afghan forces in the north and northeast of the country. "Senior ...
The Taliban gained control of villages in northeastern Afghanistan on Monday after two days of gunbattles with another Islamist group that ended with nearly 70 of the rival militants retreating and surrendering to government forces nearby, officials said.The fierce fighting, which ...
Afghan insurgent leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has claimed responsibility in a video message for an August ambush that killed 10 French soldiers, an Afghan news agency reported Monday, saying it had seen the footage.In the video statement, Hekmatyar also says he lost ...