AFGHAN WOMEN LAUNCH RARE PROTEST FOR PEACE IN TALIBAN STRONGHOLD

I am asking the Taliban to accept our demand for peace, said Khial Bibi, one of the participants at the women's tent... READ MORE›

MULTIPLE SUICIDE BOMBINGS AND ATTACKS KILL 23 PEOPLE IN AFGHANISTAN

The biggest attack saw Taliban militants storm an army base in the province of Farah, killing at least 18 soldiers... READ MORE›

NEARLY TWO DOZEN AFGHAN SOLDIERS KILLED IN MULTIPLE ATTACKS

At least 18 Afghan soldiers were killed on Saturday in the Bala Boluk district of western Farah province when Taliban fighters stormed an army checkpoint... 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›

THE WAR AMERICA CAN'T WIN: HOW THE TALIBAN IS REGAINING CONTROL IN AFGHANISTAN

The Taliban controls places like Helmand, where the US and UK troops fought their hardest battles, pushing the drive toward peace and progress into reverse... 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›

BOMB KILLED DOZENS OF MILITANTS AFGHAN OFFICIALS SAY

More tunnels were added during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, and still more by the Islamic State... 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›

MARINES BACK IN AFGHANISTAN FOR JOB THEY THOUGHT WAS DONE

At the peak of the war in southern Afghanistan, more than 20,000 Marines flooded the Taliban stronghold, pushing the insurgents out of several districts in Helmand... READ MORE›

TALIBAN SUICIDE BOMBER KILLS CIVILIANS IN HELMAND

Early in July, an American soldier was killed and two others were wounded in an attack in Helmand province while conducting operations against the Taliban... 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›

TALIBAN CAPTURE KEY AFGHAN DISTRICT; 9 POLICE KILLED

Helmand, which accounts for the bulk of Afghanistan's billion dollar opium crop, is already largely in the hands of the Taliban but the capture of Sangin... READ MORE›

WHAT AN AFGHANISTAN VICTORY LOOKS LIKE UNDER THE TRUMP PLAN

Like many Taliban leaders, he said, he had hoped to hear Mr. Trump make good on early vows to quit Afghanistan... READ MORE›

HOPELESS AFGHAN STRUGGLE TO SAVE BOY SEX SLAVES

'Unconscionable' Bacha bazi has seen a chilling resurgence in post-Taliban Afghanistan, where it is not widely perceived as homosexual or un-Islamic behaviour... READ MORE›

ROADSIDE BOMB KILLS 11 IN SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN

Powerful blast destroys a van traveling through restive Helmand province, killing all 11 passengers on board... READ MORE›

TALIBAN SUICIDE BOMB ATTACK ON AFGHAN FORCES KILLS 13

The resurgent Taliban are at the peak of their summer fighting season and have been ramping up their campaign against government forces... 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›

US AIR RAIDS HIT AFGHAN TALIBAN AFTER TUNNEL ATTACK

US air raids hit Taliban positions in the contested Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan after the fighters used tunnels to attack government checkpoints, Afghan officials said... 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›

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›

LIFE IN AFGHANISTAN UNDER THE MILITANTS

Taliban territory Life in Afghanistan under the militants... READ MORE›

HELMAND: TALIBAN KILL POLICEMEN AND CONFISCATE WEAPONS

Taliban attack on an army post led to intense fighting with Afghan forces in Helmand, causing deaths on both sides... 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›

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›