REPORTER READS NEWS MINUTES AFTER ISIL ATTACKS STATION

Defiant Parwiz Sapy appeared calm and collected on Shamshad TV as he announced to viewers on Tuesday The attack has ended... 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›

SUICIDE BOMB ATTACK KILLS 15 ARMY TRAINEES IN KABUL

The Afghan security forces are facing a resurgent Taliban, and ISIL is also weighing in, Al Jazeera's Jennifer Glasse, reporting from Kabul, said... 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›

AFGHAN ARMY BASE DESTROYED BY TALIBAN SUICIDE BOMBERS

At least 43 Afghan soldiers have been killed after two suicide bombers in Humvee trucks targeted a military base in the southern province of Kandahar... 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›

AFGHANISTAN TALIBAN 'SUICIDE ATTACK' KILLS DOZENS

Taliban suicide bombers and gunmen have stormed a police training centre in the eastern Afghan city of Gardez, killing at least 33 people, officials say... READ MORE›

MILITANTS ATTACK KABUL AIRPORT DURING MATTIS VISIT US STRIKE HITS CIVILIANS

Ghani said his government remains open to talks with the Taliban as well as a peace strategy involving Pakistan... 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›

TALIBAN TARGETS U.S. SECRETARY OF DEFENCE'S PLANE AT KABUL AIRPORT ATTACK, AMERICANS RESPOND WITH AIRSTRIKE

The statement said the original Taliban attackers had fired several rounds of high-explosive ammunition, including mortars, in the vicinity of the Kabul airport... READ MORE›

TALIBAN TARGETS U.S. SECRETARY OF DEFENCE'S PLANE AT KABUL AIRPORT ATTACK, AMERICANS RESPOND WITH AIRSTRIKE

The statement said the original Taliban attackers had fired several rounds of high-explosive ammunition, including mortars, in the vicinity of the Kabul airport... READ MORE›

INSURGENTS ATTACK KABUL AIRPORT DURING VISIT BY MATTIS; U.S. AIRSTRIKE HITS CIVILIANS

It is a classic example of what the Taliban are up to right now, Mattis said... 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›

AFGHAN CIVILIANS KILLED IN NATO AIR STRIKE IN KUNDUZ

The air raids on Thursday were in support of US and Afghan forces during an attack targeting senior Taliban commanders, according to provincial spokesman Mahmood Danish... READ MORE›

140 SOLDIERS KILLED IN TALIBAN ATTACK ON AFGHAN BASE OFFICIAL SAYS

140 Soldiers Killed in Taliban Attack on Afghan Base, Official Says... READ MORE›

US ADMITS AIR STRIKES 'LIKELY' KILLED AFGHAN CIVILIANS

US forces in Afghanistan conceded on Saturday that their air strikes in the northern province of Kunduz had very likely resulted in civilian killings... READ MORE›

SWEDEN TO DEPORT 106YO AFGHANI WOMAN, WORLD'S 'OLDEST REFUGEE' - REPORTS

Sweden rejects the asylum application of the world's oldest refugee... 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›

TALIBAN CAPTURES QALA-E-ZAL DISTRICT IN KUNDUZ PROVINCE

More than 16 years after they were driven from power, almost half of the country is either contested or under the control of the Taliban... 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›

AFGHANISTAN MOURNS AFTER DEADLY TALIBAN ATTACK ON BASE

President Ashraf Ghani calls for an investigation into the deadliest ever Taliban attack on an Afghan military base... READ MORE›

AT LEAST 12 AFGHAN SOLDIERS DIE IN 'INSIDER ATTACK'

In recent months, the Taliban have stepped up attacks across the country against Afghan security forces... READ MORE›

AT LEAST 140 DEAD AFTER TALIBAN ATTACK ON MAJOR AFGHAN ARMY BASE, OFFICIAL SAYS

KABUL -- The nerve center of Afghan and NATO combat activities in northern Afghanistan is a sprawling military base in Balkh Province... READ MORE›

TALIBAN BOMBER KILLS 4 AMERICANS AT KEY NATO BASE

Last December, a motorcycle-riding Taliban suicide bomber killed six US soldiers near Afghanistan's largest US military base... READ MORE›

HORRIFIC AFGHANISTAN BOMBING HIGHLIGHTS STALEMATE IN LONGEST U.S. WAR

The violence comes as the White House is weighing a request from military commanders to add more American troops to train and support Afghanistan's security forces... READ MORE›

BLASTS, GUNFIRE ROCK KABUL, TALIBAN CLAIMS ATTACKS

Explosions and gunfire ring out at security compounds in Kabul, witnesses say, as Taliban claims responsibility... 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›

MARINES BACK IN AFGHANISTAN FOR JOB THEY THOUGHT WAS DONE

At the peak of the war in southern Afghanistan, more than 20,000 Marines flooded the Taliban stronghold, pushing the insurgents out of several districts in Helmand... READ MORE›

TALIBAN SUICIDE BOMBER KILLS CIVILIANS IN HELMAND

Early in July, an American soldier was killed and two others were wounded in an attack in Helmand province while conducting operations against the Taliban... READ MORE›

DEADLY CAR BOMB HITS AFGHANISTAN'S LASHKAR GAH

At least 60 people were wounded in the attack outside the New Kabul Bank branch and most of the casualties were civilians, Hayaullah Hayat said... READ MORE›

TALIBAN CAPTURE KEY AFGHAN DISTRICT; 9 POLICE KILLED

Helmand, which accounts for the bulk of Afghanistan's billion dollar opium crop, is already largely in the hands of the Taliban but the capture of Sangin... 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›

ROADSIDE BOMB KILLS 11 IN SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN

Powerful blast destroys a van traveling through restive Helmand province, killing all 11 passengers on board... READ MORE›

TALIBAN SUICIDE BOMB ATTACK ON AFGHAN FORCES KILLS 13

The resurgent Taliban are at the peak of their summer fighting season and have been ramping up their campaign against government forces... 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 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›

TALIBAN KILL MORE THAN 140 AFGHAN SOLDIERS AT ARMY BASE

At least 140 Afghan soldiers have been killed after Taliban suicide attackers disguised as army personnel targeted a national army base in the north of the country... 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›

LIFE IN AFGHANISTAN UNDER THE MILITANTS

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