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›

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›

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›

THE TALIBANS LARGE FOOTPRINT IN AFGHANISTAN

The Taliban government collapsed after the American invasion, but the Taliban regained control of multiple districts between 2005 and 2009, Mr. Roggio said... 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›

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›

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›

WE WASTED $113B IN AFGHANISTAN, NO WONDER 'AMERICA FIRST' RESONATES

After 15 years, The reconstruction effort in Afghanistan is in a perilous state, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction John Sopko concludes in his 236-page report... 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›

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. SAYS LATE TALIBAN LEADER WAS PLANNING ATTACKS ON AMERICANS

According to Taliban officials, the movement has set up offices in Iran, which Mansour used to visit... 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›

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›

19-YEAR-OLD ROKHSHANA WAS ACCUSED OF TRYING TO ELOPE WITH ANOTHER MAN BUT WAS ARRESTED, TRIED AND EXECUTED IN A TALIBAN-CONTROLLED AREA

The Taliban have a strong presence in Ghor, a desolate province in central Afghanistan... 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›

BOUNTIFUL AFGHAN OPIUM HARVEST YIELDS PROFITS FOR THE TALIBAN

As the opium harvest winds down across Helmand Province, Afghanistan's largest in territory and poppy cultivation, farmers and officials are reporting high yields... READ MORE›

DOZENS KILLED IN SUICIDE BLAST AT AFGHANISTAN'S SUPREME COURT

In June, three Taliban fighters stormed a court building in the eastern Logar province, killing seven people, including the newly appointed chief prosecutor... READ MORE›

ANTITERRORISM LAWS PROMPT BRITISH LIBRARY TO DISTANCE ITSELF FROM TALIBAN PROJECT

The group's aim is to digitize the primary material shedding light on the Taliban's organization and the insurgency in Afghanistan... READ MORE›

NPR JOURNALIST AND TRANSLATOR KILLED IN AMBUSH

Mr. Gilkey was an award-winning journalist who had extensive experience covering conflicts in Gaza, South Africa, Iraq, the Balkans and Afghanistan... READ MORE›

WHY RUSSIA FACES ANOTHER ISLAMIC TERROR FRONT

The situation there in Afghanistan is close to critical, Putin said Friday at a meeting with Central Asian leaders near Moscow, according to the Kremlin's website... 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›

BARACK OBAMA SECRETLY EXTENDS US COMBAT ROLE IN AFGHANISTAN

We will no longer target belligerents solely because they are members of the Taliban, the official 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›

TO THE NEW TALIBAN LEADER: WHAT TO EXPECT

Islamabad always likes to have a big say in what the Taliban does... READ MORE›

US DRONE STRIKE TARGETS TALIBAN LEADER

Even as the Taliban operating inside Afghanistan remains a formidable and violent force, Mullah Mansour has had difficulties uniting his ranks after months of infighting... READ MORE›

AFGHAN POWER PROJECT PROMPTS HAZARA PROTEST IN KABUL

Read more Desperate journeys Persecuted Hazara flee Afghanistan Demonstrators said the chosen route for the transmission line is a discriminatory move against Hazaras... READ MORE›