Tag: Taliban
Afghan War: Taliban claims victory over NATO
The Taliban responded scornfully Monday to the formal end of NATO’s war in Afghanistan, describing the US-led mission as a…
Seven dead as Pakistan hits militant hideouts
Seven people including a policeman and paramilitary soldier were killed in two separate incidents when Pakistani security forces hit militant…
UPDATE: Over 130 killed in Taliban attack on Pakistan school
Taliban insurgents killed at least 130 people, most of them children, after storming an army-run school in Pakistan on Tuesday…
Multiple attacks kill 19 in Afghanistan as NATO deadline looms
Taliban insurgents killed at least 19 people in a series of gun and suicide attacks in Afghanistan on Saturday, underlining…
Taliban attack kills three, wounds 60, in Afghanistan
A Taliban attack on a government compound in Afghanistan on Thursday left three policemen dead and at least 60 people…
Taliban attack Afghan intelligence office
Taliban militants Saturday attacked an Afghan intelligence service office in the eastern city of Jalalabad, killing at least three people…
Bomb kills two infants, four adults in Pakistan
At least six people including two infants were killed by a roadside bomb in restive northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, officials…
Gunmen kill 15 people travelling in central Afghanistan
Suspected Taliban gunmen stopped two vehicles in central Afghanistan and shot dead 15 passengers at the side of the road,…
US drone kills six amid Pakistan anti-Taliban offensive
A United States drone strike killed six suspected militants Thursday in a Pakistani tribal district where Pakistan has launched a…
Taliban sets dozens of fuel trucks on fire in Kabul
Taliban militants set fire to dozens of fuel trucks, which they claimed were supplying foreign troops in Afghanistan, in an…
Taliban suicide attack on military bus kills 8 in Kabul
A Taliban suicide bomber in Kabul killed eight military officers Wednesday in an attack on an air force bus, Afghan…
Pakistani military kills 18 in anti-militant offensive
Pakistani jets and artillery bombarded militant hideouts in the country’s restive northwest on Saturday as part of a massive ongoing…
Taliban mock US over government shutdown
Taliban militants fighting US troops in Afghanistan taunted Washington Wednesday over the government shutdown, accusing US politicians of “sucking the…
General Carter: West should have talked to Taliban
The West should have negotiated with the Taliban more than a decade ago, soon after they were toppled, Britain’s senior…
Taliban punish two Afghans with amputations
Afghanistan’s Taliban Islamic insurgents have amputated a hand and a foot of two private security guards because they worked for…
3rd generation of Al Qaeda causing havoc in Nigeria
Retired CIA veteran Bruce Riedel, a counterterrorism expert at the Brookings Institution think tank who has advised four US presidents,…
Afghanistan: Obama to speed up US troops pullout
US President Barack Obama said Saturday that the US goal in Afghanistan was “within reach” as he vowed to move…
$100,000 reward for killer of anti-Islam movie
A Pakistani government minister Saturday offered a $100,000 reward for the death of the maker of the anti-Islam film produced…
Taliban bomber kills MP, others at daughter’s wedding
A suicide bomber killed a prominent Afghan lawmaker and 12 other people at his daughter’s wedding party in the north…