U.S. STRIKES CAUSED AT LEAST 13 CIVILIAN CASUALTIES, AFGHANS SAY

American airstrikes have more than doubled since P resident Trump announced in August a new strategy for Afghanistan... READ MORE›

TALIBAN SAYS CAPTIVE AMERICAN PROFESSOR'S HEALTH IS FAILING

The US embassy in Kabul said they were aware of the Taliban statement... READ MORE›

TALIBAN SAYS CAPTIVE AMERICAN PROFESSOR'S HEALTH IS FAILING, FATE UP TO THE U.S.

KABUL -- Taliban insurgents said Monday that an American professor abducted more than a year ago in Afghanistan is gravely ill and needs urgent care... 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›

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›

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›

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›

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›

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›

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›

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›

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›

'AT LEAST 84 STUDENTS AMONG 130 KILLED' IN TALIBAN ATTACK ON ARMY SCHOOL IN PAKISTAN

At least 84 students among 130 killed in taliban attack on army school in pakistan... READ MORE›

PAKISTAN'S 'UNIVERSITY OF JIHAD' IS GETTING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FROM THE GOVERNMENT

Tariq Afaq, a militancy expert from Peshawar, Pakistan, estimates that 80 percent of Haqqania seminary students joined or sympathize with the Taliban... READ MORE›

BIN LADEN'S SON TAKES HIGHER PROFILE IN AL QAEDA

Hamza bin Laden is believed to be in his early or mid-20s, and could represent al Qaeda's next generation... READ MORE›

SENIOR U.S. GENERAL WANTS TO START STRIKING THE TALIBAN AGAIN

Many Taliban fighters think they are operating from a position of strength, according to Campbell, speaking recently to troops at an American base in Afghanistan... READ MORE›

AFGHANISTAN: SURGE IN CIVILIAN, CHILDREN DEATH TOLLS

Civilian casualties touched a record high in the first half of 2016, with 388 children killed and 1,121 wounded... READ MORE›

A BRUSSELS MENTOR WHO TAUGHT GANGSTER ISLAM TO THE YOUNG AND ANGRY

Mr. Zerkani has perverted an entire generation of youngsters, particularly in the Molenbeek neighborhood, the Belgian federal prosecutor, Bernard Michel, said in February... READ MORE›

PENTAGON WITHHOLDS $300 MILLION IN MILITARY AID TO PAKISTAN

Washington's ties with Pakistan grew particularly strained after the United States secretly launched the raid that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in 2011... READ MORE›

TALIBAN ATTACK ON PAKISTAN BASE KILLS 20; 16 DIE IN MOSQUE

He added that the Taliban targeted 50 security forces, without explaining what that meant... READ MORE›

TOP U.S. GENERAL MAY SEEK MORE TROOPS FOR AFGHANISTAN

Earlier this year, U.S. troops were stretched so thin that they advised their Afghan partners by video conference, Thornberry said... READ MORE›

A BURNT OUT OFFICE AND THE SCENE OF THE FINAL GUN BATTLE IMAGES EMERGE OF THE AFTERMATH OF TALIBAN MASSACRE

Peshawar school attack A burnt out office and the scene of the final gun battle images emerge of the aftermath of Taliban massacre... READ MORE›

ISIL LEADER HAFIZ SAEED KILLED IN US STRIKE

Instead, ISIL leader in Afghanistan and Pakistan Hafiz Saeed Khan was killed in the strike... READ MORE›