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›

AFGHAN ARMY BASE DESTROYED BY TALIBAN SUICIDE BOMBERS

At least 43 Afghan soldiers have been killed after two suicide bombers in Humvee trucks targeted a military base in the southern province of Kandahar... READ MORE›

WAVE OF TALIBAN SUICIDE ATTACKS ON AFGHAN FORCES KILLS AT LEAST 74

The deputy interior minister, Murad Ali Murad, said the attacks on Tuesday had been the biggest this year... READ MORE›

TALIBAN ATTACKS KILL AT LEAST 69 ACROSS AFGHANISTAN

Taliban militants struck government targets in many provinces of Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing at least 69 people, including a senior police commander, and wounding scores of others... READ MORE›

AFGHANISTAN TALIBAN 'SUICIDE ATTACK' KILLS DOZENS

Taliban suicide bombers and gunmen have stormed a police training centre in the eastern Afghan city of Gardez, killing at least 33 people, officials say... READ MORE›

AT LEAST EIGHT KILLED IN SUICIDE ATTACK ON PROVINCIAL AFGHAN POLICE HQ

A suicide car bomber and gunmen attacked a provincial Afghan police headquarters on Tuesday, killing at least six people and wounding 30, officials 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›

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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›

2 U.S. SOLDIERS KILLED BY AFGHAN ARMY SOLDIER IN INSIDER ATTACK

An Afghan army commando turned his weapon on U.S. soldiers Saturday, killing two and injuring two others in eastern Afghanistan, an Afghan official said... READ MORE›

AFGHAN TALIBAN HANG UNIVERSITY STUDENT IN PUBLIC

Kabul Polytechnic university student was accused by the group of killing a senior Taliban official... 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›

SWEDEN TO DEPORT 106YO AFGHANI WOMAN, WORLD'S 'OLDEST REFUGEE' - REPORTS

Sweden rejects the asylum application of the world's oldest refugee... READ MORE›

TALIBAN CAPTURES QALA-E-ZAL DISTRICT IN KUNDUZ PROVINCE

More than 16 years after they were driven from power, almost half of the country is either contested or under the control of the Taliban... READ MORE›

AFGHANISTAN MOURNS AFTER DEADLY TALIBAN ATTACK ON BASE

President Ashraf Ghani calls for an investigation into the deadliest ever Taliban attack on an Afghan military base... READ MORE›

AT LEAST 140 DEAD AFTER TALIBAN ATTACK ON MAJOR AFGHAN ARMY BASE, OFFICIAL SAYS

KABUL -- The nerve center of Afghan and NATO combat activities in northern Afghanistan is a sprawling military base in Balkh Province... READ MORE›

HORRIFIC AFGHANISTAN BOMBING HIGHLIGHTS STALEMATE IN LONGEST U.S. WAR

The violence comes as the White House is weighing a request from military commanders to add more American troops to train and support Afghanistan's security forces... 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›

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›

DEADLY CAR BOMB HITS AFGHANISTAN'S LASHKAR GAH

At least 60 people were wounded in the attack outside the New Kabul Bank branch and most of the casualties were civilians, Hayaullah Hayat said... 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›

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›

AFGHAN FORCES CAPTURE TAYWARA DISTRICT FROM TALIBAN

Afghan security forces have recaptured a district in central Afghanistan that had fallen to the Taliban five days ago, officials said... READ MORE›

TALIBAN KILL MORE THAN 140 AFGHAN SOLDIERS AT ARMY BASE

At least 140 Afghan soldiers have been killed after Taliban suicide attackers disguised as army personnel targeted a national army base in the north of the country... 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›

LIFE IN AFGHANISTAN UNDER THE MILITANTS

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

TWENTY POLICEMEN, DOZENS OF TALIBAN KILLED IN SHAH JOI

Fighting is ongoing in Zabul province, where the police were attacked in Shah Joi district, provincial governor Bismullah Afghanmal said on Sunday... 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›

KABUL SUICIDE CAR BOMB: 24 KILLED IN AFGHAN CAPITAL

Kabul has seen a number of deadly attacks this year blamed on the Taliban or so-called Islamic State... 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›