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›

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›

'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›

'THERE IS NO SILVER BULLET': ISIS, AL-QAIDA AND THE MYTHS OF TERRORISM

'There is no silver bullet' Isis, al-Qaida and the myths of terrorism... 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›

ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS 'TRYING TO RECRUIT SYRIAN REFUGEES IN GERMANY'

Islamic extremists in Germany are trying to recruit Syrian refugees to their cause, warns country rsquo's domestic security service... READ MORE›

ISIS OR AL QAEDA AMERICAN OFFICIALS SPLIT OVER TOP TERROR THREAT

Senior leaders of the Islamic State -- unlike those of Al Qaeda -- have not made a priority of organizing strikes on the West... 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›

LEADER OF QAEDA CELL KILLED IN AIRSTRIKE IN SYRIA PENTAGON SAYS

Mr. Nasr previously worked for Al Qaeda's Iran-based facilitation network and, in 2012 he took charge of the group's core finances before relocating to Syria in 2013... 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›

SEVENTY PARIS AIRPORT WORKERS HAVE SECURITY PASSES REVOKED OVER EXTREMISM FEARS

Nearly 70 red badges were withdrawn after the attacks, mainly for cases of radicalisation, he said in an interview with French media... READ MORE›

AFGHAN HOSPITAL 'MISTAKENLY STRUCK'; STRIKE DECISION MADE WITHIN U.S. CHAIN OF COMMAND

WASHINGTON The deadly air strike that hit a hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz was a mistake made within the U.S... 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›

'JIHADI JOHN' JOINS LIST OF TOP TERRORISTS KILLED BY U.S.

Age at death 40 Terrorist affiliation Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula How he was killed By U.S. drone strike in Yemen on Sept... READ MORE›

QAEDA LEADER IN SYRIA IS KILLED IN AIRSTRIKE US SAYS

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›

TUNISIA JIHADIST DIEDIN LIBYA STRIKE USOFFICIAL SAYS

After the Tunisian and American governments named Ansar al-Shariah a terrorist organization, Mr. Ben Hassine fled the country... READ MORE›

WHITE HOUSE SET TO SELL NEW FIGHTER JETS TO PAKISTAN

It is the nature, not the size, of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal that tops Mr. Obama's agenda... READ MORE›

JOHN KASICH AND BERNIE SANDERS ARE THE FIRST CANDIDATES REACTING TO THE LAHORE, PAKISTAN BOMBING

US presidential candidates have begun reacting to the suicide bomber who killed 65 people, mostly women and children, in Lahore, Pakistan on Sunday... READ MORE›

HAMID GUL PAKISTANS FORMER SPY CHIEF DIES AT 78

General Gul helped to cobble together an alliance of right-wing political parties in the 1988 general elections... 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›

BIN LADENS KILLED IN ENGLAND PLANE CRASH

Prince Mohammed Bin Nawaf Bin Abdel-Aziz offered his condolences for the bin Laden family members who were among four people killed in the crash... READ MORE›

BELGIAN SOLDIERS AND POLICE 'HELD ORGY' DURING BRUSSELS LOCKDOWN

At least three of the nine men suspected of carrying out the attacks were based in Brussels... READ MORE›

BIN LADEN FEARED WIFES TOOTH HELD A TRACKING DEVICE

An undated will that Bin Laden is believed to have written by hand in the late 1990s was included in the documents released on Tuesday... READ MORE›

PARIS ATTACKS: A NEW TYPE OF TERRORISM?

According to Mr Joshi, the closest parallel is the Mumbai Bombay attack of 2008, carried out by Pakistan-based Islamist militants... 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›