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PENCE URGES PEACEFUL END TO STANDOFF OVER AFGHAN GOVERNOR
FILE PHOTO Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani poses for a photograph at the 72nd United Nations General Assembly at the U.N... READ MORE›
A NEW U.S. AIR BLITZ IN AFGHANISTAN ISN'T STOPPING FOR WINTER. BUT WILL IT STOP THE TALIBAN?
Taliban fighters blend back into their villages, where it's warm, and U.S. forces hunker down through the holidays... READ MORE›
PAKISTAN-US TIES TESTED BUT NOT KILLED BY HUGE AID CUT
Because Afghanistan does not accept that the Pakistani Taliban is sitting in Afghanistan... READ MORE›
'WE TRIED TO MAKE IT FUN'
Boyle and his American wife Caitlan Coleman were held captive by a faction of the Afghan Taliban for five years... READ MORE›
PAKISTAN SAYS US MILITARY AID SUSPENSION 'COUNTERPRODUCTIVE'
State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said the security spending would be suspended until Pakistan takes decisive action against the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani network... READ MORE›
WHY CAN'T THE USA AND PAKISTAN AGREE ON THE 'WAR ON TERROR'?
In the video, NBC's Islamabad producer Waj Khan gives his assessment of current relations between the US and Pakistan... READ MORE›
STAND-OFF OVER POWERFUL AFGHAN GOVERNOR FORESHADOWS BITTER ELECTION FI
Atta Mohammad Noor, Governor of the Balkh province, poses for a photo before an interview in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan January 1, 2018... READ MORE›
PAKISTAN SAYS U.S. MILITARY AID SUSPENSION 'COUNTERPRODUCTIVE'
State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said the security spending would be suspended until Pakistan takes decisive action against the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani network... READ MORE›
US PLACES PAKISTAN ON RELIGIOUS-FREEDOM WATCH LIST
The US has placed Pakistan on a watch list for severe violations of religious freedom, amid an escalating war of words between the two countries... READ MORE›
KABUL SUICIDE ATTACKER KILLS AT LEAST 11, WOUNDS 25 AS POLICE HANDLED SHOPKEEPER PROTEST
A suicide attacker blew himself up near a crowd of police and protesters in Kabul Thursday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 25 others, officials sa... READ MORE›
PAKISTAN: TRUMP'S PRESSURE TESTS STRATEGY FOR ENDING AFGHANISTAN WAR
The 255 million currently being withheld is annual military aid that the United States still provides directly to Pakistan in return for fighting terrorism... READ MORE›
KABUL PROTEST HIT BY DEADLY BOMB ATTACK
Close to a number of police who were trying to provide security for an ongoing protest, the deputy interior ministry spokesman, Nasrat Rahimi, told AFP... READ MORE›
PAKISTAN SHRUGS OFF IMPENDING US AID CUTS, WARY OF HARSHER MEASURES
Ties with the United States are likely to stay fraught as Pakistan's strategic calculus remains unchanged, said Raoof Hassan, executive director of the Islamabad-based Regional Peace Institute... READ MORE›
AFGHANISTAN WAR: ONE AMERICAN KILLED AND FOUR WOUNDED IN ACTION
Four Americans were wounded during a combat engagement in eastern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said Tuesday... READ MORE›
TOP U.S. COMMANDER WANTS MORE AGGRESSIVE AFGHANISTAN PUSH THIS YEAR
The Trump administration's Afghanistan strategy gives the U.S. military greater authority to launch offensive attacks against a resilient Taliban and an emerging Islamic State affiliate... READ MORE›
PAKISTAN SUMMONS US AMBASSADOR AFTER DONALD TRUMP'S ANGRY TWEET
David Hale was summoned by the Pakistan foreign office on Monday local time to explain Mr Trump's tweet... READ MORE›
TRUMP ATTACKS PAKISTAN 'DECEIT' IN FIRST TWEET OF THE YEAR
Pakistan has already had millions of dollars of US aid withheld for allegedly not taking enough action against the Taliban-allied Haqqani network... READ MORE›
PAKISTAN SUMMONS US AMBASSADOR OVER TRUMP'S 'LIES AND DECEIT' TWEET
Relations between the US and Pakistan have been strained for years over Islamabad's alleged support for Haqqani network militants, who are allied with the Afghan Taliban... READ MORE›
PAKISTAN SUMMONS US AMBASSADOR AFTER TRUMP'S TWITTER TIRADE
Afghanistan officials cheered Trump's tough talk against Pakistan, which it accuses of sponsoring terrorist attacks on Afghan soil... READ MORE›
TRUMP BLASTS PAKISTAN FOR 'LIES' AND 'DECEIT' IN FIRST 2018 TWEET
No more! The Pakistani Defense Ministry responded to Trump's broadside with its own tweet... READ MORE›
U.S. HAS GIVEN PAKISTAN $33 BILLION AND IT HAS REPAID AID WITH 'LIES & DECEIT' AS IT HARBORS TERRORISTS
In August, the United States said it would hold up 255 million in military assistance for Pakistan until it cracks down on extremists threatening Afghanistan... READ MORE›
BLAST AT AFGHAN OFFICIALS FUNERAL KILLS 18
Explosion kills at least 18 civilians and wounds 13 more in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar province... READ MORE›
BLAST AT FUNERAL IN EASTERN AFGHANISTAN KILLS 15
A suicide attack at a funeral in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Sunday killed at least 15 people and wounded 13, the governor's spokesman said... READ MORE›
SOME AFGHAN CHILDREN FIND A REFUGE FROM JAIL FOR NOW
The women are hardly career criminals most want what is best for their children, and that is not an adult jail, Ms. Nasim said... READ MORE›
MOTHER OF KABUL BLAST VICTIM: 'ISIL, WHY MY SON?'
Over the past two years, ISIL has claimed a growing number of attacks in certain areas of Afghanistan where its presence was previously rare... READ MORE›
HOURS AFTER AFGHAN BLAST CONFUSED FAMILIES SEARCHED DESPERATELY FOR NEWS
There are several governments in Afghanistan, what government do you mean?... READ MORE›
DEADLY ATTACK AT KABUL CULTURAL CENTER IS LATEST IN TERRORIST CAMPAIGN AGAINST SHIITES
In August, 31 people were killed in a terrorist attack on a Shiite mosque in Herat, a city close to the Iran border... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE CLAIMS DEADLY BLAST AT AFGHAN SHIITE CENTER
I have little doubt that this attack deliberately targeted civilians, said Toby Lanzer, the acting head of the United Nations mission in Afghanistan... READ MORE›
ATTACK ON CULTURAL CENTRE IN AFGHAN CAPITAL KILLS DOZENS
Attack on cultural centre in Kabul kills at least 41, including students... READ MORE›
ATTACKERS STORM SHIITE CULTURAL CENTER IN KABUL; 35 KILLED
In an interview, Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid denied involvement in Thursday's attack on the cultural center... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : Faryab Province
A POLICEMANS BEAR HUG STOPS A SUICIDE BOMBER FROM KILLING MORE
Broad-shouldered and heavily muscled, Lieutenant Pacha shouted at the suspect to halt, but instead the man started running... READ MORE›
DEFENSE DEPARTMENT: THE WAR ON TERROR HAS COST $250 MILLION A DAY FOR 16 YEARS
A 2011 paper from Harvard Kennedy School professor Linda Bilmes estimated the cost of veterans' benefits as 600 billion to 1 trillion over the next 40 years... READ MORE›
TALIBAN HOSTAGE FAMILY FREED BY PAKISTANI TROOPS
A North American family of five are released from Afghan Taliban captivity by Pakistani troops... READ MORE›
REPORTER READS NEWS MINUTES AFTER ISIL ATTACKS STATION
Defiant Parwiz Sapy appeared calm and collected on Shamshad TV as he announced to viewers on Tuesday The attack has ended... READ MORE›
DEADLY ATTACK ON METHODIST CHURCH IN PAKISTAN
But Pakistan's Christian minority has also frequently been the subject of militant attacks, and guards had been placed near the church in Quetta as a result... READ MORE›
CANADIAN SAYS CHILD KILLED, WIFE RAPED IN AFGHANISTAN
Former hostage Joshua Boyle says Haqqani network killed his infant daughter and raped his wife while in captivity... READ MORE›
KIDNAPPED CANADIAN-AMERICAN FAMILY FREED IN PAKISTAN GUN BATTLE AFTER 5 YEARS IN CAPTIVITY
I've personally written to several of the most senior government officials in Afghanistan, those with great power over the execution of your brothers, Patrick Boyle says... READ MORE›
KABUL SUICIDE BOMB ATTACK KILLS DOZENS
Afghanistan suicide bomb attack Dozens killed in Kabul... READ MORE›
TRUMP STIFFED GOLD STAR DAD AFTER PROMISING HIM $25K CHECK
He said, 'I'm going to write you a check out of my personal account for 25,000,' and I was just floored, Baldridge told the paper... READ MORE›
FOUR KILLED IN 'SUICIDE ATTACK' AT AFGHAN VOICE
Kabul Four killed in 'suicide attack' at Afghan Voice... READ MORE›
ISIS IN AFGHANISTAN IS US TOOL TO CAUSE TROUBLE IN WHOLE REGION - EX-AFGHAN PRESIDENT KARZAI TO RT
Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai says ISIS is tool of the US in Afghanistan, used to destabilize whole region... READ MORE›
AFGHAN MILITANT GROUP KILLED OUR INFANT DAUGHTER
U.S. officials have long accused Pakistan of ignoring groups like the Haqqani network, which was holding the family... READ MORE›
ANALYSIS | WHAT WERE CAITLAN COLEMAN AND JOSHUA BOYLE REALLY DOING IN AFGHANISTAN?
Why did Boyle and Coleman, seven months pregnant, decide to go to Kabul?... READ MORE›
ISIS NUMBERS GROWING FAST NEAR CHINA'S NEW SILK ROAD, SAYS RUSSIA
Top Russian diplomat Zamir Kabulov said over the weekend that Moscow is ready to sit down with Washington to discuss cooperation on Afghanistan... READ MORE›
CAITLAN COLEMAN AND JOSHUA BOYLE ARE FREE. THEIR MYSTERIOUS STORY IS RAISING NEW QUESTIONS.
The patriarch of the Khadr family was killed in 2003, along with al-Qaeda and Taliban members, in a shootout with Pakistani security forces near the Afghanistan border... READ MORE›
DEADLY ATTACK HITS AFGHAN POLICE TRAINING CENTRE
In June, Gardez' police headquarters was attacked by Taliban fighters, killing at least five officers... READ MORE›
JOSHUA BOYLE SAYS TALIBAN-LINKED CAPTORS RAPED CAITLAN COLEMAN, KILLED INFANT DAUGHTER
Coleman and Boyle were abducted in October 2012 while traveling in a remote area of Afghanistan outside Kabul... READ MORE›
AT LEAST EIGHT KILLED IN SUICIDE ATTACK ON PROVINCIAL AFGHAN POLICE HQ
A suicide car bomber and gunmen attacked a provincial Afghan police headquarters on Tuesday, killing at least six people and wounding 30, officials said... READ MORE›
AFGHAN SUICIDE MOSQUE ATTACKS KILL SCORES OF WORSHIPPERS
Some 60 people have been killed in two separate attacks on mosques in Afghanistan, officials say... READ MORE›
US AIRSTRIKES KILL SCORES OF CIVILIANS IN KUNDUZ PROVINCE, AFGHANS SAY
A US soldier was killed on Saturday after sustaining injuries on an operation in Logar in the eastern part of the country, the US military said... READ MORE›
HUNTING TALIBAN AND ISIS FIGHTERS FROM 20000 FEET
With the war in Afghanistan now in its 17th year, President Trump's strategy aims to drive the Taliban to a negotiated settlement... READ MORE›
TILLERSON AND THE MISSING WALL CLOCK
Images show him meeting President Ashraf Ghani in a windowless room at Bagram Airfield, under a US military clock and a red fire alarm... READ MORE›
AMERICAN WOMAN AND FAMILY FREED IN PAKISTAN FIVE YEARS AFTER BEING KIDNAPPED BY TALIBAN
The release also could help ease tensions between the United States and Pakistan over efforts against the Taliban and other militant groups along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border... READ MORE›
TALIBAN ATTACKS KILL AT LEAST 69 ACROSS AFGHANISTAN
Taliban militants struck government targets in many provinces of Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing at least 69 people, including a senior police commander, and wounding scores of others... READ MORE›
AFGHAN ARMY BASE DESTROYED BY TALIBAN SUICIDE BOMBERS
At least 43 Afghan soldiers have been killed after two suicide bombers in Humvee trucks targeted a military base in the southern province of Kandahar... READ MORE›
NOW PUTIN IS BEING ASKED TO BRING PEACE TO AFGHANISTAN
Russia has a significant role in bringing the Taliban to the negotiating table, Afghan National Security Adviser Mohammad Haneef Atmar told reporters in Moscow on Thursday... READ MORE›
FIGHTERS STORM TV STATION IN AFGHANISTANS KABUL
At least one security guard was killed as fighters stormed a private television station in the Afghan capital, Kabul... READ MORE›
ICC SEEKS TO INVESTIGATE CIA, U.S. MILITARY FOR ALLEGED WAR CRIMES
The U.S. State Department said in a statement that it was reviewing Bensouda's authorization request, but opposes the International Criminal Court's involvement in Afghanistan... READ MORE›
SUICIDE ATTACK NEAR AFGHAN INTELLIGENCE HQ
Ten people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack near the compound of Afghanistan's intelligence agency in Kabul, officials say... READ MORE›
A TALE OF TWO HOTELS A BUDDHA BEHIND EACH
BAMIAN, Afghanistan -- The two hotels are separated by a 400-yard stretch of asphalt road, but they seem worlds apart... READ MORE›