All four new cases appeared in Taliban areas of control, health workers in Shahwalikot said... READ MORE›
It was the first major attack on an Afghan media organisation since the Taliban were ousted from power in 2001... READ MORE›
American airstrikes have more than doubled since P resident Trump announced in August a new strategy for Afghanistan... READ MORE›
The US embassy in Kabul said they were aware of the Taliban statement... READ MORE›
KABUL -- Taliban insurgents said Monday that an American professor abducted more than a year ago in Afghanistan is gravely ill and needs urgent care... READ MORE›
Mariam Koofi, a parliament member from the northeastern Badakhshan province, lamented what she sees as an increasingly complicated fight for security in Afghanistan... READ MORE›
Taliban insurgents claimed responsibility for the attack, the latest in a particularly deadly week for Afghanistan's security forces... READ MORE›
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›
The military has been playing an increasingly active role in Afghanistan amid a Taliban resurgence, particularly in the northern province of Kunduz... READ MORE›
LONDON -- First the Pakistani Taliban bombed or burned over 1,000 schools... READ MORE›
Military jets have conducted numerous airstrikes in Kunduz after the Taliban overwhelmed Afghan security forces on Monday... READ MORE›
However, the Taliban claimed to have killed at least 70 soldiers and to have seized a number of army vehicles, equipment, machinery and weapons... READ MORE›
Elsewhere in Afghanistan, Taliban fighters attacked a district headquarters in the Kandahar province using a suicide car bomb, said Samim Khpolwak, a spokesman for the governor... READ MORE›
On Thursday, at least five security officials were killed and several wounded in a Taliban-claimed car bomb attack near their checkpost also in the Gereshk district... READ MORE›
He was released in 2005, and joined the Pakistani Taliban before defecting to the new Islamic State branch... READ MORE›
A Taliban attack on a military base in Kandahar province has left at least 15 Afghan soldiers dead, according to government officials... READ MORE›
It was collective punishment, Sami Yousafzai, an Afghan journalist who has covered the war and Taliban since their emergence, told Al Jazeera... READ MORE›
In recent years, the United States-led coalition fighting the Taliban has been drawn down to a small mission... READ MORE›
The Islamic State claimed responsibility for killing at least 130 people in a string of terrorist attacks Friday in Paris... READ MORE›
Pakistani soldiers transport rescued school children from the site of an attack by Taliban... READ MORE›
The Doctors Without Borders hospital is the only such facility in northeastern Afghanistan, providing free care to all based on medical needs... READ MORE›
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›
There are currently about 10,000 American troops in Afghanistan, and most are there to train and advise Afghan forces... READ MORE›
Afghan security forces have recaptured a district in central Afghanistan that had fallen to the Taliban five days ago, officials said... READ MORE›
Another resident, Ahmad Khalid, said that before fleeing Kunduz on Thursday, he saw Taliban fighters huddled around a car... READ MORE›
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›
26 Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Taliban, has condemned the atrocious and cowardly attack on a school in Pakistan... READ MORE›
Even the Taliban didn't harm wounded Afghan security forces taken to the hospital, the guard said... READ MORE›
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›
Taliban territory Life in Afghanistan under the militants... READ MORE›
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›
Doctors Without Borders has condemned the airstrike on the hospital in Kunduz as a possible war crime... READ MORE›
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›
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›
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›
The United States has continued to provide air power and other military support to Kabul, preventing the Taliban from making more ground... READ MORE›
Once the hotbed of the Taliban insurgency, Kandahar has remained relatively stable as district after district in surrounding provinces has fallen to the militants... READ MORE›
Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan Reach New High, U.N. Says... READ MORE›
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