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›

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›

ISIS BLOWS UP TEMPLE AT SYRIAS PALMYRA RUINS

The entire ancient city of Palmyra is a Unesco World Heritage site... READ MORE›

JIHAD AND GIRL POWER HOW ISIS LURED 3 LONDON TEENAGERS

LONDON The night before Khadiza Sultana left for Syria she was dancing in her teenage bedroom... READ MORE›

ISIS TRANSFORMING INTO FUNCTIONING STATE THAT USES TERROR AS TOOL

ISTANBUL -- The Islamic State uses terror to force obedience and frighten enemies... 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›

FRIEDMAN THE WORLDS HOT SPOT

Let me point out a few news items you may have missed while debating the Iran nuclear deal... READ MORE›

THE BEHEADING OF A 9-YEAR-OLD GIRL PROMPTED HUGE PROTESTS IN AFGHANISTAN

They chanted slogans against the government, the Taliban and neighboring Pakistan, which is seen as having a hand in Afghanistan's Islamist insurgency... READ MORE›

MISSING UK FAMILY 'SAFER THAN EVER WITH ISLAMIC STATE'

A missing UK family of 12 have joined so-called Islamic State and feel safer than ever, according to a statement said to be on their behalf... 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›

AUSTRALIA LOOKS SET TO START BOMBING SYRIA AS LIBERALS WARN AGAINST TOO MUCH COMPASSION FOR REFUGEES

Australia looks set to start bombing Syria as Libs warn against too much refugee compassion... 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›

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›

ISIS HELD US AID WORKER AS SEX SLAVE BEFORE DEATH

DOHUK Iraq Somewhere in territory controlled by the Islamic State Kayla Mueller an American aid worker was chained in a room with other female captives... READ MORE›

BRADFORD DAWOOD FAMILY 'SPLIT TO CROSS SYRIA BORDER'

Sisters Khadija Sugra and Zohra Dawood and their children went missing after travelling to Saudi Arabia... 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›

ISLAMIC STATE BEHEADS FEMALE CIVILIANS FOR FIRST TIME IN SYRIA

Islamic State beheads female civilians for first time in Syria monitor... 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›

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›

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›

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›

ISLAMIC STATE SHOWS IMAGES OF ANCIENT SYRIAN TEMPLE DESTRUCTION

Islamic State has proclaimed a caliphate to rule over all Muslims from territory it holds in both Syria and Iraq... 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›