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›

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›

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›

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›

'MASTERMIND' ABDELHAMID ABAAOUD AND FEMALE SUICIDE BOMBER 'DEAD'

Saint-Denis Paris attack live 'Mastermind' Abdelhamid Abaaoud and female suicide bomber 'dead' - latest updates... 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›

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›

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›

ISIS COULD BECOME 'WORLDS FIRST TRULY TERRORIST STATE' AND BOMB UK WITH NUCLEAR AND CHEMICAL WEAPONS, THERESA MAY WARNS

Isis could become world's first truly terrorist state and bomb uk with nuclear and chemical weapons theresa may warns... 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›

FORMER TOPLESS MODEL ARRESTED OVER FACEBOOK TERRORISM LINKS TO ISLAMIC STATE

Officers from the north east's counter terrorism unit also searched the 27-year-old's home in Bradford... READ MORE›

A FOURFOLD INCREASE ON OFFICIAL ESTIMATES

07 Sep 2014 Evidence from one posting on a social networking site last week suggested that as many as 20 British jihadists have been joining Isil forces every day... 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›

TRUMP STRETCHES FACTS IN FIERY SPEECH

Indeed, a majority of Republican voters agreed with Trump's call to temporarily ban all foreign Muslims from entering the United States... 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›

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›

HAYLE MAN ARRESTED UNDER TERRORISM ACT

The 26-year-old was arrested in Hayle on Monday night under section five of the Terrorism Act, Devon and Cornwall Police said... READ MORE›

ATTACKERS IN AFGHAN UNIFORMS KILL 2 NATO SOLDIERS

Officials had repeatedly warned that if Musa Qala fell the Taliban could tighten their grip on northern Helmand... READ MORE›

U.S. TROOPS DISPATCHED TO KUNDUZ TO HELP AFGHAN FORCES

Another Afghan official from Kunduz confirmed that coalition advisers are now also actively engaged in trying to trying to drive the Taliban from the city... READ MORE›

AID GROUP SEEKS INDEPENDENT PROBE INTO U.S. ATTACK ON AFGHAN HOSPITAL

Hashemi said most of the airstrikes that occurred in Kunduz after the Taliban overran it last week resulted from a specific request from the Afghanistan military... READ MORE›

US ROLE IN AFGHANISTAN TURNS TO COMBAT AGAIN WITH A TRAGIC ERROR

The Taliban attacked the Afghan police compound at first light, coming from all sides at the American Green Berets holed up inside... READ MORE›

ISLAMIC STATE 'FALSELY CLAIMING' ATTACKS IN BANGLADESH

We know from Syria that there is no such common ground for Islamic State and al Qaeda, they can't be on the same platform, he said... READ MORE›