SUICIDE BOMB ATTACK KILLS 15 ARMY TRAINEES IN KABUL

The Afghan security forces are facing a resurgent Taliban, and ISIL is also weighing in, Al Jazeera's Jennifer Glasse, reporting from Kabul, said... READ MORE›

MILITANTS ATTACK KABUL AIRPORT DURING MATTIS VISIT US STRIKE HITS CIVILIANS

Ghani said his government remains open to talks with the Taliban as well as a peace strategy involving Pakistan... READ MORE›

12 AFGHAN SECURITY FORCES KILLED IN KANDAHAR

Taliban spokesman Qari Yusouf Ahmadi said the Taliban captured Maroof for a few hours and after removing weapons and other items left the district... READ MORE›

TALIBAN TARGETS U.S. SECRETARY OF DEFENCE'S PLANE AT KABUL AIRPORT ATTACK, AMERICANS RESPOND WITH AIRSTRIKE

The statement said the original Taliban attackers had fired several rounds of high-explosive ammunition, including mortars, in the vicinity of the Kabul airport... READ MORE›

TALIBAN TARGETS U.S. SECRETARY OF DEFENCE'S PLANE AT KABUL AIRPORT ATTACK, AMERICANS RESPOND WITH AIRSTRIKE

The statement said the original Taliban attackers had fired several rounds of high-explosive ammunition, including mortars, in the vicinity of the Kabul airport... READ MORE›

INSURGENTS ATTACK KABUL AIRPORT DURING VISIT BY MATTIS; U.S. AIRSTRIKE HITS CIVILIANS

It is a classic example of what the Taliban are up to right now, Mattis said... 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›

MORE THAN 100 CHILDREN KILLED IN TALIBAN ATTACK ON PAKISTAN SCHOOL

We selected the army's school for the attack because the government is targeting our families and females, said the Taliban spokesman Muhammad Umar Khorasani... READ MORE›

SWEDEN TO DEPORT 106YO AFGHANI WOMAN, WORLD'S 'OLDEST REFUGEE' - REPORTS

Sweden rejects the asylum application of the world's oldest refugee... READ MORE›

TALIBAN SPLINTER GROUP CLAIMS ATTACK ON CHRISTIANS AT PAKISTAN PARK; 60 DEAD

A spokesman for the Jamaat ul-Ahrar militant group, which is an offshoot of the Pakistani Taliban, asserted responsibility in a telephone interview Sunday... READ MORE›

AFGHANS LOOK INTO REPORTS OF TALIBAN LEADERS DEATH

KABUL Afghanistan The Afghan government said on Wednesday that it was investigating new reports that Mullah Muhammad Omar the elusive leader of the Taliban is dead... READ MORE›

TALIBAN RELEASE IMAGES OF GUNMEN WHO KILLED 148 AS THEY CLAIM MASSACRE WAS JUSTIFIED AND WARN OF FURTHER VIOLENCE

Pakistani Taliban spokesman Mohammad Khurasani also vowed more attacks as he warned civilians to detach themsleves from all military institutions... READ MORE›

TALIBAN SUICIDE BOMBER KILLS CIVILIANS IN HELMAND

Early in July, an American soldier was killed and two others were wounded in an attack in Helmand province while conducting operations against the Taliban... READ MORE›

'BIN LADEN'S SON HAMZA URGES TERROR ATTACK' ON LONDON IN AL-QAEDA MESSAGE

Hamza Bin Laden calls to move the war from Kabul, Gaza and Baghdad, to Washington, London, Paris and Tel-Aviv... READ MORE›

TALIBAN SUICIDE BOMB ATTACK ON AFGHAN FORCES KILLS 13

The resurgent Taliban are at the peak of their summer fighting season and have been ramping up their campaign against government forces... 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›

PAKISTAN TALIBAN VOW SUPPORT FOR IS

The Pakistani Taliban has been waging its own insurgency against the Islamabad government since 1997... 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›

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›

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›

PAKISTAN PRESS FREEDOM UNDER PRESSURE FROM ARMY

He just said 'Raheel Sharif, Raheel Sharif' without calling him general, Mir says of a recent episode of his influential Capital Talk programme... 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›

IS LEADER IN AFGHANISTAN KILLED, US BELIEVES

Hafiz Saeed Khan, leader of so-called Islamic State IS in Afghanistan and Pakistan, died in a US drone strike last month, the US believes... 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›

DEATH TOLL IN PAKISTAN EASTER SUICIDE ATTACK CLIMBS PAST 70

Christians make up only about one percent of Pakistan's population, but have maintained a larger presence in Lahore... READ MORE›

WHITE HOUSE SET TO SELL NEW FIGHTER JETS TO PAKISTAN

It is the nature, not the size, of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal that tops Mr. Obama's agenda... READ MORE›

72 DEAD AFTER SUICIDE BOMBER STRIKES CHILDREN'S PLAY AREA IN LAHORE

Pakistani rescuers and officials gather at a bomb blast site in Lahore... READ MORE›

JOHN KASICH AND BERNIE SANDERS ARE THE FIRST CANDIDATES REACTING TO THE LAHORE, PAKISTAN BOMBING

US presidential candidates have begun reacting to the suicide bomber who killed 65 people, mostly women and children, in Lahore, Pakistan on Sunday... READ MORE›

HAMID GUL PAKISTANS FORMER SPY CHIEF DIES AT 78

General Gul helped to cobble together an alliance of right-wing political parties in the 1988 general elections... READ MORE›

PAKISTAN POLICE ARREST 14 IN 'HONOR KILLING' OF TEEN SAID TO HAVE HELPED BRIDE TO ELOPE

Earlier this year, Sharif's political party, Pakistan Muslim League-N, pushed through a women's rights bill in Punjab province... READ MORE›

U.S. TROOP INCREASE IN AFGHANISTAN IS UNDERWAY, GENERAL SAYS

At a news conference in the Afghan capital, the military commander for United States and NATO forces in Afghanistan, Gen... READ MORE›

TALIBAN NAME NEW LEADER AFTER CONFIRMING PREDECESSOR DIED IN US STRIKE

Mawlawi Haibatullah served as a top judge during the Taliban's rule of Afghanistan, in Kandahar as well as on the Supreme Court in Kabul... READ MORE›

25 KILLED IN BOMBING OUTSIDE US BASE IN AFGHANISTAN

An American military official said that no Americans or other members of the multinational military force in Afghanistan were killed or wounded... READ MORE›

PAKISTAN SCHOOL ATTACK: POLITICAL RIVALS AGREE ANTI-TERRORISM PLAN A ROLLING REPORT

But for Pakistan, meaningful cooperation would require Afghanistan to take action against Pakistan Taliban groups in Afghanistan... READ MORE›

KABUL EXPLOSION: 'FOREIGN COMPOUND' TARGETED BY TALIBAN

A compound housing foreign contractors in the Afghan capital, Kabul, has come under attack from Taliban fighters, police say... READ MORE›

NEWS ANALYSIS AFGHAN WARS CONVENIENT MYTH A LIVING MULLAH OMAR

Moreover, any Taliban statements that sounded remotely like a peace overture were usually said to have Mullah Omar's imprimatur... READ MORE›