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The article reports on the terrorist attacks held by Taliban in three provinces in Afghanistan on May 12, 2014 that killed at least 11 people.

The article reports that the local police and the National Army (A.N.A.) in Afghanistan rae taking lead against the terrorist group Taliban, in which American and Afghan officials considers the move as a crucial test to the ability of Afghan forces to keep the said terrorist group.

The article reports that six Taliban prisoners were executed following an order from Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai. It states that the six prisoners who were hanged at the Pol-e-Charki prison in Kabul, Afghanistan. It mentions that the prisoners have been convicted of terrorist attacks including kidnappings, assassinations, and suicide bombings.

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban made a show of force across a province of northeastern Afghanistan on Friday, Afghan officials said, attacking dozens of government installations but causing relatively few deaths or injuries. The insurgent forces struck at least six districts of Kunar Province, attacking district governors' offices, police and army outposts, and other government buildings. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban suicide bombers and gunmen barraged the diplomatic quarter and the Parliament in the Afghan capital for hours on Sunday and struck three eastern provinces as well, in a complex attack clearly designed to undermine confidence in NATO and Afghan military gains. Though the overall confirmed death toll was low, with six victims initially reported across four provinces, they were among the most audacious coordinated terrorist attacks here in recent years. The multiple sieges ended in Kabul on Monday morning after nearly 18 hours, and silence fell on the city with roads in the bullet-strafed areas beginning to reopen. The last of the attacks to be resolved was the one on the Parliament, which ended at 7:30 a.m., according to a statement by the Afghan Interior Ministry. ''The situation is normal,'' the ministry said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Toor Jan, who used to kill Americans and Canadians here, does not want much from the Afghan government. A home. A job. And, yes, eight security guards. He needs them. As one of the few Taliban commanders to switch sides, he is a target. In a rare interview, the 28-year-old, who is tall, thin and has a full black beard, is somber about the step he has taken, although he is one of the success stories of the government's biggest and best-financed peace program, which aims to bring Taliban fighters over to the government side, sapping the insurgency's strength. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on Friday at a supermarket in the capital frequented by foreigners. They said the strike was aimed at killing the head of the private security company Blackwater. Employees of Blackwater, now called Xe Services, were in the area at the time, but neither they nor anyone they were protecting were killed or wounded, said Harry W. Clark, an adviser to the company. Instead the attack killed at least nine other people, including five foreign women, four of them Filipinos, said Afghan and Western officials, and at least one child. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

KUNDUZ, Afghanistan -- This city, once a crossroads in the country's northeast, is increasingly besieged. The airport closed months ago to commercial flights. The roads heading south to Kabul and east to Tajikistan as well as north and west are no longer safe for Afghans, let alone Westerners. Although the numbers of American and German troops in the north have more than doubled since last year, insecurity has spread, the Taliban are expanding their reach, and armed groups that purportedly support the government are terrorizing local people and hampering aid organizations, according to international aid workers, Afghan government officials, local residents and diplomats. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the capture of the provincial capital of Kunduz, Afghanistan, by the terrorist organization the Taliban as of October 1, 2015. The author explains that while the fighting lasted only a few hours, the insurgency had been planning this campaign for at least two years, explores the role of the American-trained Afghan government, and examines the evacuation of the city prior to its capture.

QARGHA LAKE, Afghanistan -- As families ate a late dinner at a popular lakeside resort hotel here on a warm summer night, at least three Taliban shot their way into the compound, entered the dining room and took an unknown number of hostages, Afghan officials said early Friday. At dawn there was still gunfire, and Afghan police officers were fighting with the attackers but trying to stage a counterattack so as not to harm the families held hostage, said Gen. Mohammed Zahir, head of the Kabul Criminal Investigation Division. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The guests were still sleeping when the gunmen, dressed in police uniforms, arrived early Wednesday. In the dark, they shot the guards, scaled the front gate of the guesthouse and began firing grenades, the beginning of a terrifying two-hour siege that showed just how little it takes for the Taliban to trap foreigners in central Kabul. By the end of the siege, at least five United Nations employees, two Afghan security officials and the brother-in-law of a prominent Afghan politician were dead, as were their three attackers. But the story of how the rest of the people in the Bakhtar guesthouse had survived was one of courage -- particularly by several United Nations security guards, one of them an American identified by survivors as Max, who held off the attackers for about an hour. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]