TALIBAN ATTACKS IN AFGHANISTAN KILL 58, INCLUDING MOST OF AN ARMY CAMP

And a Taliban attack on police posts in western Farah province, also late Wednesday, killed nine policemen, said police Chief Abdul Marouf Foulad... 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›

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›

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›

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›

US BARELY MISSES RESCUING HOSTAGES IN AFGHANISTAN

In the video, Mr. Boyle said he had heard reports that the Afghan government was executing Taliban prisoners... 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›

'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›

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›

80 DEAD AND HUNDREDS INJURED AFTER 'ISIS SUICIDE BOMBER' STRIKES KABUL

In a statement issued by its news agency, Aamaq, Isis group claimed responsibility for the attack on a protest march by Afghanistan's ethnic Hazaras... 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›

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›

FIVE AFGHAN MEN HANGED FOR RAPE

He was head of a major crime gang involved in several cases of kidnapping and armed robbery, Hashmat Stanekzai, a Kabul police spokesman, told the BBC... 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›

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›

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›

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›

ISIS CLAIMS DEADLY BOMBING AT DEMONSTRATION IN KABUL AFGHANISTAN

As tempers flared at the government, protesters also pushed away anti-riot police forces who had provided security earlier in the day... READ MORE›

TWENTY POLICEMEN, DOZENS OF TALIBAN KILLED IN SHAH JOI

Fighting is ongoing in Zabul province, where the police were attacked in Shah Joi district, provincial governor Bismullah Afghanmal said on Sunday... 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›

FOREIGN OFFICE WILL NO LONGER EXPLICITLY CAMPAIGN FOR AN END TO USE OF THE DEATH PENALTY WORLDWIDE

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office FCO has alarmed campaigners after dropping explicit references to abolishing the death penalty from its global human right work... 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›

SHOOTER'S FATHER SAYS HE'S SADDENED BY MASSACRE, CALLS GUNMAN 'A GOOD SON'

But Seddique Mateen appeared to maintain a strong affiliation to Afghanistan, hosting a television show broadcast from California that weighed in on the country's political affairs... 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›

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›

'MORTAR ATTACK KILLS 13 CIVILIANS' IN FARYAB PROVINCE

Dilawer said it was not clear whether the Taliban or Afghan security forces targeted the house in Dawlat Abad district... READ MORE›