CIA DOCUMENTS OFFER INSIGHT INTO OSAMA BIN LADEN'S MIND

Bin Laden suggested that al-Qaeda could speed things up Yemen by assassinating the Yemeni president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, who later was deposed... READ MORE›

US SAYS WOULD LIKE TO HAVE TALIBAN ON NEGOTIATING TABLE ASAP

She said the Taliban should enter into negotiations with the government of Afghanistan whether privately or publicly... READ MORE›

BRITISH WIFE OF SENIOR AMERICAN ISIL FIGHTER SAYS RACISM IN UK RADICALISED HER

I was looking for a way to retaliate and I wanted honour again. Mrs Georgelas said the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 were a turning point... READ MORE›

CIA RELEASES BIN LADEN DIARY AND VIDEOS

Bin Laden's computer was taken during the 2011 US raid in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad in which he died... READ MORE›

CIA RELEASES TROVE OF DOCUMENTS FROM BIN LADEN RAID

The US Central Intelligence Agency CIA has released 470,000 files that were captured during the raid that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in May 2011... READ MORE›

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WORLD TRADE CENTER BOMBER 'BLIND SHEIKH' DIES IN PRISON

He issued a fatwa that resulted in the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981 by Egyptian Islamic Jihad... READ MORE›

AIRSTRIKE HITS DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS HOSPITAL IN AFGHANISTAN

The military has been playing an increasingly active role in Afghanistan amid a Taliban resurgence, particularly in the northern province of Kunduz... 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›

POSSIBLE U.S. AIRSTRIKE HITS DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS HOSPITAL; AT LEAST 9 DEAD

Military jets have conducted numerous airstrikes in Kunduz after the Taliban overwhelmed Afghan security forces on Monday... READ MORE›

AFGHAN ISIS BRANCH MAKES INROADS IN BATTLE AGAINST TALIBAN

He was released in 2005, and joined the Pakistani Taliban before defecting to the new Islamic State branch... READ MORE›

AFGHAN CRISIS GROWS AS PUSH TO RETAKE KUNDUZ FALTERS

Officials and local elders in Kunduz said they had yet to see all but a few of the promised government reinforcements... 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›

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 WORLD WILL NEVER SEE OSAMA BIN LADEN'S HUGE STASH OF PORN

CIA chiefs are keeping a huge stash of porn owned by evil former al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden under wraps... READ MORE›

'I NEVER STOPPED PRAYING OUR LIVES MIGHT RETURN TO NORMAL'

Osama bin Laden's family on the run 'I never stopped praying our lives might return to normal'... READ MORE›

19 KILLED AFTER AFGHAN HOSPITAL HIT IN SUSPECTED U.S. AIRSTRIKE

The Doctors Without Borders hospital is the only such facility in northeastern Afghanistan, providing free care to all based on medical needs... 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›

US GENERAL SAYS AFGHANS REQUESTED STRIKE

There are currently about 10,000 American troops in Afghanistan, and most are there to train and advise Afghan forces... READ MORE›

FAWWAZ GUILTY OF US EMBASSY ATTACKS

Al-Fawwaz, 52, has been described as Osama Bin Laden's spokesman in London... READ MORE›

TAKING HOLD IN KUNDUZ AFGHANISTAN NEW TALIBAN ECHOED THE OLD

Another resident, Ahmad Khalid, said that before fleeing Kunduz on Thursday, he saw Taliban fighters huddled around a car... READ MORE›

AFTER PRESIDING OVER BIN LADEN RAID, CIA CHIEF IN PAKISTAN CAME HOME SUSPECTING HE WAS POISONED BY ISI

Mark Kelton retired from the CIA, and his health has recovered after he had abdominal surgery... READ MORE›

AFGHAN SECURITY FORCES STRUGGLE JUST TO MAINTAIN STALEMATE

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›

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›

BY EVENING, A HOSPITAL. BY MORNING, A WAR ZONE.

Even the Taliban didn't harm wounded Afghan security forces taken to the hospital, the guard said... 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›

MAN WHO KILLED BIN LADEN TO REVEAL HIS IDENTITY

Article last year called The Man Who Killed Osama bin Laden ... READ MORE›

EXCLUSIVE: IN TURF WAR WITH AFGHAN TALIBAN, ISLAMIC STATE LOYALISTS GAIN GROUND

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›

AFGHANISTAN VIOLENCE: DEADLY SUICIDE BOMB HITS KABUL

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›

CASUALTY COUNT FROM AFGHAN BASE ATTACK RISES TO 100 - DEFENSE MINISTRY

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani went from Kabul to the city of Mazr on Saturday, the Pajhwok news network reported... 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›

EXTREMISTS IN; BRAVE SERVANTS OUT: BRITAIN MAKES ME DESPAIR

It was the same with the locally recruited translators that the UK military relied on in recent conflicts... READ MORE›

ATTACKERS IN AFGHAN UNIFORMS KILL 2 NATO SOLDIERS

Officials had repeatedly warned that if Musa Qala fell the Taliban could tighten their grip on northern Helmand... READ MORE›

BIN LADEN'S SON HAMZA 'ACTIVELY ENGAGED' IN TERRORISM

Hamza bin Laden, a son of Osama bin Laden, has been officially designated a global terrorist by the United States... READ MORE›

U.S. TROOPS DISPATCHED TO KUNDUZ TO HELP AFGHAN FORCES

Another Afghan official from Kunduz confirmed that coalition advisers are now also actively engaged in trying to trying to drive the Taliban from the city... READ MORE›