SUICIDE BOMB ATTACK KILLS 15 ARMY TRAINEES IN KABUL

The Afghan security forces are facing a resurgent Taliban, and ISIL is also weighing in, Al Jazeera's Jennifer Glasse, reporting from Kabul, said... 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›

12 AFGHAN SECURITY FORCES KILLED IN KANDAHAR

Taliban spokesman Qari Yusouf Ahmadi said the Taliban captured Maroof for a few hours and after removing weapons and other items left the district... READ MORE›

TALIBAN TARGETS U.S. SECRETARY OF DEFENCE'S PLANE AT KABUL AIRPORT ATTACK, AMERICANS RESPOND WITH AIRSTRIKE

The statement said the original Taliban attackers had fired several rounds of high-explosive ammunition, including mortars, in the vicinity of the Kabul airport... READ MORE›

TALIBAN TARGETS U.S. SECRETARY OF DEFENCE'S PLANE AT KABUL AIRPORT ATTACK, AMERICANS RESPOND WITH AIRSTRIKE

The statement said the original Taliban attackers had fired several rounds of high-explosive ammunition, including mortars, in the vicinity of the Kabul airport... READ MORE›

INSURGENTS ATTACK KABUL AIRPORT DURING VISIT BY MATTIS; U.S. AIRSTRIKE HITS CIVILIANS

It is a classic example of what the Taliban are up to right now, Mattis said... 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›

MORE THAN 100 CHILDREN KILLED IN TALIBAN ATTACK ON PAKISTAN SCHOOL

We selected the army's school for the attack because the government is targeting our families and females, said the Taliban spokesman Muhammad Umar Khorasani... READ MORE›

TALIBAN RELEASE IMAGES OF GUNMEN WHO KILLED 148 AS THEY CLAIM MASSACRE WAS JUSTIFIED AND WARN OF FURTHER VIOLENCE

Pakistani Taliban spokesman Mohammad Khurasani also vowed more attacks as he warned civilians to detach themsleves from all military institutions... READ MORE›

AYATOLLAH KHAMENEI BACKING IRAN NEGOTIATORS DOESNT FAULT NUCLEAR DEAL

Khamenei said referring to the United States and its five negotiating partners... 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›

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›

PAKISTAN TALIBAN VOW SUPPORT FOR IS

The Pakistani Taliban has been waging its own insurgency against the Islamabad government since 1997... READ MORE›

ISRAELI 'SPY DOLPHIN' CAUGHT OFF GAZA COAST

A year later Iranian security forces arrested two suspected spy pigeons near a nuclear facility... 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›

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›

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›

PAKISTAN PRESS FREEDOM UNDER PRESSURE FROM ARMY

He just said 'Raheel Sharif, Raheel Sharif' without calling him general, Mir says of a recent episode of his influential Capital Talk programme... 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›

IRAN NUCLEAR TALKS ARE NEARING A DEAL WITH FEWER OBSTACLES

Kerry's 16th consecutive day at the talks, and after convening the rest of the United States negotiating team, he met with Mr... READ MORE›

IRAN AND WORLD POWERS REACH HISTORIC NUCLEAR AGREEMENT

On the Iranian side President Hassan Rouhani tweeted IranDeal shows constructive engagement works... 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›

IN IRAN NUCLEAR TALKS US WILL NOT BE RUSHED KERRY SAYS

Kerry spoke however a senior Iranian official accused the United States of reversing positions in the previous 24 hours and upending agreements that had already been reached... READ MORE›

NEW HEARING BEGINS IN IRAN FOR WASHINGTON POST CORRESPONDENT JASON REZAIAN

Rezaian 39 is accused of engaging in espionage on behalf of the United States government and conducting activities against Iran IRNA reported... READ MORE›

FIRST FANGED DEER SPOTTED IN 60 YEARS

1 COMMENTEMAILMORE The Kashmir musk deer were known to live in areas of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan, and had not been spotted in more than 60 years... 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›

IRAN TO STUDY NUCLEAR DEAL BEFORE LAWMAKERS VOTE

For 12 years, great powers have tried to prevent an Iranian nuclear program, Mr. Zarif said... READ MORE›

72 DEAD AFTER SUICIDE BOMBER STRIKES CHILDREN'S PLAY AREA IN LAHORE

Pakistani rescuers and officials gather at a bomb blast site in Lahore... 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›

THE SECRET SIDE OF IRAN-US RELATIONS SINCE THE 1979 REVOLUTION

Iran's attitude to the United States is like someone pining for a former, perhaps abusive lover... READ MORE›

IRANS PRESIDENT DEFENDS NUCLEAR DEAL IN BLUNT REMARKS

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country's supreme leader, who has the final word on the nuclear agreement, gave his tacit support to it on Saturday... READ MORE›

U.S. TROOP INCREASE IN AFGHANISTAN IS UNDERWAY, GENERAL SAYS

At a news conference in the Afghan capital, the military commander for United States and NATO forces in Afghanistan, Gen... 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›

KERRY WARNS IRAN THAT US WILL NOT ACCEPT AN UNSOUND NUCLEAR DEAL

The six world powers negotiating with Iran are the United States, France, Britain, Germany, Russia and China... READ MORE›