His return could inject new political uncertainty as the government struggles to confront a reinvigorated Taliban that has been advancing on several fronts... READ MORE›
The military has been playing an increasingly active role in Afghanistan amid a Taliban resurgence, particularly in the northern province of Kunduz... READ MORE›
LONDON -- First the Pakistani Taliban bombed or burned over 1,000 schools... 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›
Military jets have conducted numerous airstrikes in Kunduz after the Taliban overwhelmed Afghan security forces on Monday... READ MORE›
He was released in 2005, and joined the Pakistani Taliban before defecting to the new Islamic State branch... READ MORE›
Officials and local elders in Kunduz said they had yet to see all but a few of the promised government reinforcements... READ MORE›
Accord to allow Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of a major armed group, to make a comeback despite a history of war crimes... READ MORE›
The Islamic State claimed responsibility for killing at least 130 people in a string of terrorist attacks Friday in Paris... READ MORE›
Pakistani soldiers transport rescued school children from the site of an attack by Taliban... READ MORE›
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›
The Doctors Without Borders hospital is the only such facility in northeastern Afghanistan, providing free care to all based on medical needs... READ MORE›
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›
There are currently about 10,000 American troops in Afghanistan, and most are there to train and advise Afghan forces... READ MORE›
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›
Another resident, Ahmad Khalid, said that before fleeing Kunduz on Thursday, he saw Taliban fighters huddled around a car... READ MORE›
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›
26 Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Taliban, has condemned the atrocious and cowardly attack on a school in Pakistan... READ MORE›
Even the Taliban didn't harm wounded Afghan security forces taken to the hospital, the guard said... READ MORE›
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›
Doctors Without Borders has condemned the airstrike on the hospital in Kunduz as a possible war crime... READ MORE›
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›
The statement, in Pashto, was issued in the name of the Taliban as well as Mullah Omar's family... READ MORE›
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›
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›
Officials fear that the Khorasan militants could provide these sophisticated explosives to their Western recruits, who could sneak them onto United States-bound flights... READ MORE›
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›
It is the nature, not the size, of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal that tops Mr. Obama's agenda... READ MORE›
Officials had repeatedly warned that if Musa Qala fell the Taliban could tighten their grip on northern Helmand... READ MORE›
An American military official said that no Americans or other members of the multinational military force in Afghanistan were killed or wounded... READ MORE›
The vast majority of the strikes appear to remain focused on Taliban forces the traditional targets of American airstrikes here for more than a decade... READ MORE›
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