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›

CALLING SUCCESSOR A TRAITOR AFGHAN EX-LEADER DENOUNCES US BOMBING

But Mr. Ghani's office put out a brief post on Twitter, clearly aimed at Mr. Karzai Every Afghan has the right to speak their mind... READ MORE›

NIGHTCLUB SHOOTER'S DAD HOSTED ANTI-AMERICAN TALK SHOW

The name of the show refers to the Durand Line, the long-disputed border that separates Afghanistan and Pakistan... 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›

AFGHANS LOOK INTO REPORTS OF TALIBAN LEADERS DEATH

KABUL Afghanistan The Afghan government said on Wednesday that it was investigating new reports that Mullah Muhammad Omar the elusive leader of the Taliban is dead... READ MORE›

EX-WIFE OF SUSPECTED ORLANDO SHOOTER HE BEAT ME

The two married in March 2009 and moved into the Fort Pierce condo that Mateen's family owned... READ MORE›

'BIN LADEN'S SON HAMZA URGES TERROR ATTACK' ON LONDON IN AL-QAEDA MESSAGE

Hamza Bin Laden calls to move the war from Kabul, Gaza and Baghdad, to Washington, London, Paris and Tel-Aviv... 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›

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›

WAVES OF ATTACKS SHAKE KABUL ON ITS DEADLIEST DAY OF 2015

Mr. Mujahid, who generally speaks on behalf of the Haqqani network as well as the mainstream Taliban, last week denied the reports of Jalaluddin Haqqani's death... READ MORE›

80 DEAD AND HUNDREDS INJURED AFTER 'ISIS SUICIDE BOMBER' STRIKES KABUL

In a statement issued by its news agency, Aamaq, Isis group claimed responsibility for the attack on a protest march by Afghanistan's ethnic Hazaras... 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›

AFGHAN TALIBAN: QATAR PLAYS MAJOR ROLE IN PEACE TALKS

He also noted a separate meeting was held between the Taliban and Afghan journalists where both sides were able to discuss their ideas for peace... 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›

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›

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›

ISIS CLAIMS DEADLY BOMBING AT DEMONSTRATION IN KABUL AFGHANISTAN

As tempers flared at the government, protesters also pushed away anti-riot police forces who had provided security earlier in the day... 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›

SHOOTER'S FATHER SAYS HE'S SADDENED BY MASSACRE, CALLS GUNMAN 'A GOOD SON'

But Seddique Mateen appeared to maintain a strong affiliation to Afghanistan, hosting a television show broadcast from California that weighed in on the country's political affairs... READ MORE›

25 KILLED IN BOMBING OUTSIDE US BASE IN AFGHANISTAN

An American military official said that no Americans or other members of the multinational military force in Afghanistan were killed or wounded... READ MORE›

VIDEO EMERGES OF GERMAN TRAIN ATTACKER PLEDGING ALLEGIANCE TO ISILA

A purported video of the teenage Afghan refugee who attacked passengers on a German train with an axe has emerged... 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›

NEWS ANALYSIS AFGHAN WARS CONVENIENT MYTH A LIVING MULLAH OMAR

Moreover, any Taliban statements that sounded remotely like a peace overture were usually said to have Mullah Omar's imprimatur... 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›

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›

MEMO FROM AFGHANISTAN AFGHAN PEACE EFFORTS REOPEN WOUNDS OVER PAKISTAN

Handing over a top Pakistani Taliban commander and going after the Pakistani Taliban on Afghan soil without reciprocal efforts from Pakistan is absolute appeasement... READ MORE›

CORRUPTION SOILS AFGHANISTAN'S BRIGHT BLUE TREASURE

And there is no better evidence of just how deep corruption goes than the fate of one of Afghanistan's greatest treasures, the gemstone lapis lazuli... READ MORE›