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›

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›

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›

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›

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›

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›

PUNISHING 16 PENTAGON SAYS MISTAKES LED TO HOSPITAL ATTACK IN AFGHANISTAN

His statement directly contradicted the claim by many senior Afghan officials that the hospital was being used by Taliban fighters and was therefore a legitimate target... READ MORE›

WE WASTED $113B IN AFGHANISTAN, NO WONDER 'AMERICA FIRST' RESONATES

After 15 years, The reconstruction effort in Afghanistan is in a perilous state, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction John Sopko concludes in his 236-page report... 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›

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›

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›

OBAMA SAYS MULLAH MANSOUR TALIBAN LEADER WAS KILLED IN US STRIKE

The strike was the first such American drone attack in the southwestern Pakistani province of Baluchistan, which is the de facto headquarters of the Afghan Taliban... READ MORE›

AFGHAN SESAME STREET INTRODUCES ZARI A MUPPET AND ROLE MODEL FOR GIRLS

The director of communications for Sesame Workshop, Philip Toscano, said the Muppet was based on research aiming to develop a character that would resonate with viewers... READ MORE›

TALIBAN RESTART SECRET TALKS WITH AFGHANISTAN IN QATAR

The United States has continued to provide air power and other military support to Kabul, preventing the Taliban from making more ground... READ MORE›

HUGE BLAST IN AFGHAN CAPITAL KILLS DOZENS

Police officials said that militants had entered the compound after the explosion and that Afghan security units had arrived in response... 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›

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›

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›

U.S. SAYS LATE TALIBAN LEADER WAS PLANNING ATTACKS ON AMERICANS

According to Taliban officials, the movement has set up offices in Iran, which Mansour used to visit... READ MORE›

US ROLE IN AFGHANISTAN TURNS TO COMBAT AGAIN WITH A TRAGIC ERROR

The Taliban attacked the Afghan police compound at first light, coming from all sides at the American Green Berets holed up inside... 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›

A CIA GRUNTS TALE OF THE FOG OF SECRET WAR

By 2011, Mr. Laux said it became a common refrain among Americans in Afghanistan that the United States had not been in the country for 10 years... READ MORE›

BOUNTIFUL AFGHAN OPIUM HARVEST YIELDS PROFITS FOR THE TALIBAN

As the opium harvest winds down across Helmand Province, Afghanistan's largest in territory and poppy cultivation, farmers and officials are reporting high yields... 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›