IN POLIOS WORST-HIT DISTRICT, VACCINATORS STRAIN FOR ACCESS

All four new cases appeared in Taliban areas of control, health workers in Shahwalikot said... READ MORE›

'THEY CANNOT SILENCE US': KABUL TV STATION BACK ON AIR MOMENTS AFTER ATTACK

It was the first major attack on an Afghan media organisation since the Taliban were ousted from power in 2001... READ MORE›

AFTER A BLOODY WEEK IN AFGHANISTAN, ELECTED OFFICIALS SEEK ANSWERS FROM GHANI

Mariam Koofi, a parliament member from the northeastern Badakhshan province, lamented what she sees as an increasingly complicated fight for security in Afghanistan... READ MORE›

CAR BOMB KILLS 15 AFGHAN CADETS, TRAINERS OUTSIDE KABUL MILITARY SCHOOL

Taliban insurgents claimed responsibility for the attack, the latest in a particularly deadly week for Afghanistan's security forces... 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›

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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›

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›

SOLDIERS KILLED AS TALIBAN STORMS KANDAHAR BASE

However, the Taliban claimed to have killed at least 70 soldiers and to have seized a number of army vehicles, equipment, machinery and weapons... 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›

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 FIGHTERS KILLED' IN HELMAND GUN BATTLE

On Thursday, at least five security officials were killed and several wounded in a Taliban-claimed car bomb attack near their checkpost also in the Gereshk district... READ MORE›

AT LEAST 15 AFGHAN SOLDIERS KILLED IN TALIBAN ATTACK

A Taliban attack on a military base in Kandahar province has left at least 15 Afghan soldiers dead, according to government officials... READ MORE›

AN AFGHAN MOTHERS HEARTACHE THREE SONS DEAD IN A DAY

In recent years, the United States-led coalition fighting the Taliban has been drawn down to a small mission... 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›

AFGHAN FORCES CAPTURE TAYWARA DISTRICT FROM TALIBAN

Afghan security forces have recaptured a district in central Afghanistan that had fallen to the Taliban five days ago, officials said... 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›

LIFE IN AFGHANISTAN UNDER THE MILITANTS

Taliban territory Life in Afghanistan under the militants... 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›

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›

IN ANATOMY OF AN AFGHAN BOMBING CLUES OF A TANGLED WAR

Once the hotbed of the Taliban insurgency, Kandahar has remained relatively stable as district after district in surrounding provinces has fallen to the militants... READ MORE›

CIVILIAN DEATHS IN AFGHANISTAN REACH NEW HIGH UN SAYS

Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan Reach New High, U.N. Says... READ MORE›

ABOUT 12 RELEASED GUANTANAMO DETAINEES IMPLICATED IN ATTACKS ON AMERICANS

Edward R. Royce R-Calif., who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has also written legislation that would require greater transparency surrounding the transfer of Guantanamo detainees... 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›

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›

U.S. KILLS 12 AFGHAN POLICE IN AIRSTRIKE AMID VIOLENT CLASHES WITH TALIBAN

He said they had recaptured the post from the Taliban when the airstrike occurred... 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›

2012: HISTORY OF THE PAKISTANI TALIBAN

Hide Caption 14 of 15 15 photos Scores killed in Pakistan blast Rescuers load a victim into an ambulance... READ MORE›