AFGHAN TALIBAN SEIZE KEY DISTRICT WHERE UK LOST 104 SOLDIERS

The Taliban has captured a key district in Helmand province once considered the deadliest battlefield for British and US troops in Afghanistan... READ MORE›

TALIBAN CAPTURE KEY AFGHAN DISTRICT; 9 POLICE KILLED

Helmand, which accounts for the bulk of Afghanistan's billion dollar opium crop, is already largely in the hands of the Taliban but the capture of Sangin... READ MORE›

AMERICAN SOLDIERS WOUNDED IN AFGHAN 'INSIDER ATTACK'

Elsewhere in Afghanistan, Taliban fighters attacked a district headquarters in the Kandahar province using a suicide car bomb, said Samim Khpolwak, a spokesman for the governor... READ MORE›

AFGHAN SOLDIER SHOOTS, WOUNDS 3 U.S. TROOPS

Elsewhere in Afghanistan, Taliban insurgents attacked a district headquarters in the Kandahar province using a suicide car bomb, said Samim Khpolwak, a spokesman for the governor... READ MORE›

BLASTS, GUNFIRE ROCK KABUL, TALIBAN CLAIMS ATTACKS

Explosions and gunfire ring out at security compounds in Kabul, witnesses say, as Taliban claims responsibility... READ MORE›

HELMAND: TALIBAN KILL POLICEMEN AND CONFISCATE WEAPONS

Taliban attack on an army post led to intense fighting with Afghan forces in Helmand, causing deaths on both sides... READ MORE›

DEADLY SUICIDE BLAST STRIKES LASHKAR GAH IN HELMAND

Qari Yusuf Ahmadi, a Taliban spokesman, claimed on Twitter that 39 soldiers and officers had been killed and wounded in the martyrdom attack ... READ MORE›

KABUL BLAST OUTSIDE HIGH COURT KILLS MORE THAN 20 PEOPLE

A suicide attacker detonated a bomb-rigged vehicle as workers were leaving the Supreme Court complex... READ MORE›

US AIR RAIDS HIT AFGHAN TALIBAN AFTER TUNNEL ATTACK

US air raids hit Taliban positions in the contested Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan after the fighters used tunnels to attack government checkpoints, Afghan officials said... READ MORE›

TROOPS ACTED IN SELF-DEFENSE IN AFGHAN FIREFIGHT THAT KILLED 33

A??On this occasion the Taliban chose to hide amongst civilians and then attacked Afghan and U.S. forces,a??... READ MORE›

U.S. MILITARY SAYS BATTLE WITH TALIBAN KILLED 33 CIVILIANS IN AFGHANISTAN

Earlier this month, the United States announced it would deploy 300 more Marines to Helmand province, a Taliban stronghold that has seen fierce fighting in recent months... READ MORE›

NOVEMBER FIGHT WITH TALIBAN KILLED 33 CIVILIANS

The two Taliban figures, responsible for violence in Kunduz the previous month, were killed in the operation... READ MORE›

U.S. MILITARY SAYS 33 CIVILIANS WERE KILLED IN TALIBAN BATTLE 3 MONTHS AGO

On this occasion the Taliban chose to hide amongst civilians and then attacked Afghan and U.S. forces... READ MORE›

TWIN BLASTS CLAIMED BY TALIBAN KILL MORE THAN 20 PEOPLE IN KABUL

A police official said a suicide attacker approached an intelligence agency building in Kabul before detonating his explosives... READ MORE›

23 KILLED, DOZENS INJURED AS TWIN BLASTS ROCK KABUL

23 killed, dozens injured as twin blasts rock Kabul -- RT News... READ MORE›

300 MARINES TO AID FIGHT AGAINST TALIBAN IN SPRING

Our mujahedeen continued their progress in the presence of tens of thousands of Americans and other invading forces, said Qari Yousef Ahmadi, a Taliban spokesman... READ MORE›

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A senior Taliban commander in the Pakistani city of Quetta said that 12 years of incarceration had also caused some psychological problems for Noori and Fazl... READ MORE›

AFGHAN CIVILIANS KILLED IN NATO AIR STRIKE IN KUNDUZ

The air raids on Thursday were in support of US and Afghan forces during an attack targeting senior Taliban commanders, according to provincial spokesman Mahmood Danish... READ MORE›

US ADMITS AIR STRIKES 'LIKELY' KILLED AFGHAN CIVILIANS

US forces in Afghanistan conceded on Saturday that their air strikes in the northern province of Kunduz had very likely resulted in civilian killings... READ MORE›

NIGHTCLUB SHOOTER'S DAD HOSTED ANTI-AMERICAN TALK SHOW

The name of the show refers to the Durand Line, the long-disputed border that separates Afghanistan and Pakistan... READ MORE›

AT LEAST 12 AFGHAN SOLDIERS DIE IN 'INSIDER ATTACK'

In recent months, the Taliban have stepped up attacks across the country against Afghan security forces... READ MORE›

TALIBAN BOMBER KILLS 4 AMERICANS AT KEY NATO BASE

Last December, a motorcycle-riding Taliban suicide bomber killed six US soldiers near Afghanistan's largest US military base... READ MORE›

EX-WIFE OF SUSPECTED ORLANDO SHOOTER HE BEAT ME

The two married in March 2009 and moved into the Fort Pierce condo that Mateen's family owned... READ MORE›

HOPELESS AFGHAN STRUGGLE TO SAVE BOY SEX SLAVES

'Unconscionable' Bacha bazi has seen a chilling resurgence in post-Taliban Afghanistan, where it is not widely perceived as homosexual or un-Islamic behaviour... READ MORE›

EUROPE MAKES DEAL TO RETURN REFUGEES TO AFGHANISTAN WHERE WAR AWAITS THEM

A leaked European Union memo dated March 3 discussed openly making pledges of aid at this week's conference conditional on Afghanistan's agreement with the repatriation deal... READ MORE›

HOW TERRORISM IN THE WEST COMPARES TO TERRORISM EVERYWHERE ELSE

The Islamic State claimed responsibility for killing at least 130 people in a string of terrorist attacks Friday in Paris... READ MORE›

POWERFUL BLASTS KILL AT LEAST 80 IN KABUL PROTEST

ISIL claims responsibility for blasts targeting a demonstration by members of Afghanistan's Hazara minority in Kabul... READ MORE›

PAKISTAN SCHOOL ATTACK LIVE: TALIBAN KILL AT LEAST 84 CHILDREN IN 'HORRIFYING' MASSACRE

The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack and said it was in revenge for an anti-terrorist military offensive... READ MORE›

KABUL BLAST HITS HAZARA PROTEST - '29 DEAD AND SCORES HURT'

They are angry that the route bypasses areas with large Hazara populations... READ MORE›

WAVES OF ATTACKS SHAKE KABUL ON ITS DEADLIEST DAY OF 2015

Mr. Mujahid, who generally speaks on behalf of the Haqqani network as well as the mainstream Taliban, last week denied the reports of Jalaluddin Haqqani's death... READ MORE›

ISIS CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR KABUL FATAL BOMB ATTACK ON HAZARA PROTESTERS

If true, it would mark the first attack by Isis in Kabul, and its largest ever in Afghanistan... READ MORE›

PAKISTAN SCHOOL ATTACK 132 TALIBAN HOSTAGES FEARED DEAD

26 Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Taliban, has condemned the atrocious and cowardly attack on a school in Pakistan... READ MORE›

TALIBAN PRESENT GENTLER FACE BUT WIELD IRON FIST IN AFGHAN DISTRICT

But in most ways, the social restrictions that made the Taliban international pariahs during their reign have been resurrected in full in Baghran... READ MORE›

TALIBAN CONFIRM DEATH OF LEADER AND WEIGH SUCCESSOR

The statement, in Pashto, was issued in the name of the Taliban as well as Mullah Omar's family... READ MORE›

SUICIDE BLAST HITS SOUTHERN AFGHAN CITY UNDER TALIBAN SIEGE; AT LEAST 14 DEAD

Authorities said the bomber and three other insurgents were killed, and Afghan security forces conducted house-to-house searches for any hidden Taliban fighters... READ MORE›

A YOUNG MAN IS SKINNED ALIVE. A SIGN OF NEW TALIBAN BRUTALITY?

They note that violence in Afghanistan escalated last summer after it was announced that the Taliban's other former leader, Mohammad Omar, had died two years earlier... READ MORE›

OBAMA SAYS MULLAH MANSOUR TALIBAN LEADER WAS KILLED IN US STRIKE

The strike was the first such American drone attack in the southwestern Pakistani province of Baluchistan, which is the de facto headquarters of the Afghan Taliban... READ MORE›

VIDEO SUICIDE ATTACK ON PAKISTAN POLICE HEADQUARTERS IN LAHORE

The Taliban have maintained an intense fighting tempo this winter, a season when the violence in Afghanistan typically subsides... READ MORE›

VIDEO EMERGES OF GERMAN TRAIN ATTACKER PLEDGING ALLEGIANCE TO ISILA

A purported video of the teenage Afghan refugee who attacked passengers on a German train with an axe has emerged... READ MORE›

TWO U.S. SERVICE MEMBERS KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN

Two American service members were killed and another two wounded after they came under fire in northern Afghanistan on Thursday, U.S. military officials said... READ MORE›

U.S. SAYS LATE TALIBAN LEADER WAS PLANNING ATTACKS ON AMERICANS

According to Taliban officials, the movement has set up offices in Iran, which Mansour used to visit... READ MORE›

ATTACK BY GUNMEN ALONG AFGHAN ROAD KILLS UP TO 13

On Tuesday, occurred southwest of Kabul, in Wardak Province, where the Taliban have a strong presence... READ MORE›

SENIOR U.S. GENERAL WANTS TO START STRIKING THE TALIBAN AGAIN

Many Taliban fighters think they are operating from a position of strength, according to Campbell, speaking recently to troops at an American base in Afghanistan... READ MORE›

AFGHAN TALIBAN LEADER MANSOUR 'PROBABLY KILLED' IN US AIR STRIKE

Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour has probably been killed in a US air strike, US officials say... READ MORE›

ANTITERRORISM LAWS PROMPT BRITISH LIBRARY TO DISTANCE ITSELF FROM TALIBAN PROJECT

The group's aim is to digitize the primary material shedding light on the Taliban's organization and the insurgency in Afghanistan... READ MORE›

NPR JOURNALIST AND TRANSLATOR KILLED IN AMBUSH

Mr. Gilkey was an award-winning journalist who had extensive experience covering conflicts in Gaza, South Africa, Iraq, the Balkans and Afghanistan... READ MORE›