CIVILIAN VICTIMS OF AFGHAN WAR EXCEED 10,000 IN 2017

At nearly 2,300, 2017 recorded the highest number of civilian casualties from suicide and complex attacks in a single year since the UN mission began documentation in 2009... READ MORE›

NO END IN SIGHT AS PENTAGON REPORTS AFGHAN WAR COSTING $45 BILLION PER YEAR

Tens of billions are just being thrown down a hatch in Afghanistan, said Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky... READ MORE›

LANDMINES KILLING PEOPLE IN PAKISTAN'S SOUTH WAZIRISTAN

Officially, the military denies it ever laid any landmines in the district, blaming Taliban forces for doing so... READ MORE›

AIRSTRIKE HITS DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS HOSPITAL IN AFGHANISTAN

The military has been playing an increasingly active role in Afghanistan amid a Taliban resurgence, particularly in the northern province of Kunduz... READ MORE›

WATCH RUSSIAN TV S BIZARRE TRAILER FOR PUTIN PRESS CONFERENCE

LONDON -- First the Pakistani Taliban bombed or burned over 1,000 schools... READ MORE›

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›

U.S. DROPS 'MOTHER OF ALL BOMBS' IN AFGHANISTAN, AIMING FOR ISIS CAVES

ISIS's offshoot in Afghanistan is suspected of carrying out several attacks on minority Shia Muslim targets... READ MORE›

POSSIBLE U.S. AIRSTRIKE HITS DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS HOSPITAL; AT LEAST 9 DEAD

Military jets have conducted numerous airstrikes in Kunduz after the Taliban overwhelmed Afghan security forces on Monday... READ MORE›

EXPLOSIVES FOUND AT GERMAN CHRISTMAS MARKET

The suspicion of an improvised explosive device has been confirmed, police said on Twitter... READ MORE›

AFGHAN ISIS BRANCH MAKES INROADS IN BATTLE AGAINST TALIBAN

He was released in 2005, and joined the Pakistani Taliban before defecting to the new Islamic State branch... READ MORE›

AFGHAN CRISIS GROWS AS PUSH TO RETAKE KUNDUZ FALTERS

Officials and local elders in Kunduz said they had yet to see all but a few of the promised government reinforcements... READ MORE›

ROADSIDE BOMB KILLS 11 IN SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN

Powerful blast destroys a van traveling through restive Helmand province, killing all 11 passengers on board... 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›

DOZENS OF STUDENTS KILLED IN PAKISTANI TALIBAN ATTACK ON PESHAWAR SCHOOL

Pakistani soldiers transport rescued school children from the site of an attack by Taliban... READ MORE›

19 KILLED AFTER AFGHAN HOSPITAL HIT IN SUSPECTED U.S. AIRSTRIKE

The Doctors Without Borders hospital is the only such facility in northeastern Afghanistan, providing free care to all based on medical needs... 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›

US GENERAL SAYS AFGHANS REQUESTED STRIKE

There are currently about 10,000 American troops in Afghanistan, and most are there to train and advise Afghan forces... READ MORE›

TAKING HOLD IN KUNDUZ AFGHANISTAN NEW TALIBAN ECHOED THE OLD

Another resident, Ahmad Khalid, said that before fleeing Kunduz on Thursday, he saw Taliban fighters huddled around a car... READ MORE›

AFGHAN SECURITY FORCES STRUGGLE JUST TO MAINTAIN STALEMATE

But by one important measure, Lieutenant Javed and the other soldiers in the district are succeeding The Taliban flag does not yet fly over Musa Qala... 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›

ANALYSIS | THE WEST IS INDIFFERENT TO AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ'S WORLD OF TERROR

You can lament their desperation, wonder at the woeful state of Afghanistan's security forces and even celebrate their resilience... READ MORE›

BY EVENING, A HOSPITAL. BY MORNING, A WAR ZONE.

Even the Taliban didn't harm wounded Afghan security forces taken to the hospital, the guard said... 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›

OBAMA APOLOGIZES TO DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS FOR U.S. BOMBING OF HOSPITAL

Doctors Without Borders has condemned the airstrike on the hospital in Kunduz as a possible war crime... READ MORE›

EXCLUSIVE: IN TURF WAR WITH AFGHAN TALIBAN, ISLAMIC STATE LOYALISTS GAIN GROUND

IS supporters have proved ruthless, reportedly beheading several Taliban commanders, and IS' success in taking over swathes of Iraq and Syria underlines the risks to Afghanistan... 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›

AFGHANISTAN VIOLENCE: DEADLY SUICIDE BOMB HITS KABUL

At least 28 people have been killed and 329 injured in a huge explosion in the centre of the Afghan capital Kabul, police and officials say... 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›

AFGHAN TALIBAN KILL DOZENS AT KANDAHAR AIRPORT

Dozens of people have been killed in a Taliban attack on a heavily fortified civilian and military airfield in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar... READ MORE›

ATTACKERS IN AFGHAN UNIFORMS KILL 2 NATO SOLDIERS

Officials had repeatedly warned that if Musa Qala fell the Taliban could tighten their grip on northern Helmand... READ MORE›

8 PEOPLE DETAINED IN CONNECTION WITH ST. PETERSBURG METRO BOMBING - OFFICIAL

Eight suspects have been detained as part of the St. Petersburg terrorist attack investigation, according to the Russian Investigative Committee, which is leading the inquiry... 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›

U.S. TROOPS DISPATCHED TO KUNDUZ TO HELP AFGHAN FORCES

Another Afghan official from Kunduz confirmed that coalition advisers are now also actively engaged in trying to trying to drive the Taliban from the city... READ MORE›