Taliban

Ex-U.S. war prisoner Bergdahl charged with desertion, misbehavior

U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, a former Taliban prisoner in Afghanistan, was formally charged on ...

Mar 25, 2015 05:29 PM EDT

Fearing Islamic State, some Afghan Shi'ites seek help from old enemies

Even by Afghanistan's standards of often-shifting alliances, a recent meeting between ethnic Hazara ...

Mar 22, 2015 05:39 AM EDT

Pakistan arrests parents for refusing children's polio vaccinations

Pakistan authorities have arrested hundreds of parents who refuse to vaccinate their children agains...

Mar 03, 2015 09:01 AM EST

White House denies U.S. scheduled to meet with Taliban on peace deal

The White House denied reports that U.S. officials planned to meet with the Taliban on Thursday, a s...

Feb 19, 2015 06:09 PM EST

China's President Xi to visit Pakistan this year

China's President Xi Jinping will visit Pakistan this year in what will be the first trip by a Chine...

Feb 14, 2015 08:03 AM EST

Rape, acid attacks, kidnap: girls face rising violence in fight for education - U.N.

High-profile attacks such as the abduction 300 schoolgirls by Boko Haram in Nigeria and the shooting...

Feb 10, 2015 05:19 AM EST

Army says no decision made in Bergdahl investigation

The U.S. Army on Tuesday denied that a decision had been made to bring desertion charges against Ser...

Jan 27, 2015 06:26 PM EST

U.S. brands as 'terrorist' Pakistani Taliban head behind massacre

The United States on Tuesday declared Pakistani Taliban leader Mullah Fazlullah a "global terrorist,...

Jan 13, 2015 05:58 PM EST

London imam Abu Hamza to be sentenced for U.S. terrorism conviction

For years, the radical imam Abu Hamza al-Masri delivered incendiary sermons at a London mosque, usin...

Jan 09, 2015 03:49 AM EST

As U.S.-led combat mission ends, Afghan women fear oppression

No one ever claimed responsibility after a suicide bomber rammed into the vehicle of celebrated fema...

Dec 31, 2014 01:52 AM EST

On Christmas visit with troops, Obama lauds end of Afghanistan mission

One week before the U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan draws to a close, President Barack Obama and ...

Dec 26, 2014 07:06 AM EST

Four militants hanged in Pakistan as execution campaign widens

Pakistan hanged four Islamist militants on Sunday in the second set of executions since the governme...

Dec 21, 2014 10:25 AM EST

U.S. sends four Guantanamo prisoners home to Afghanistan

Four Afghans held for over a decade at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been s...

Dec 21, 2014 03:28 AM EST

Pakistan PM lifts moratorium on death penalty after school attack

The Pakistani prime minister lifted a moratorium on the death penalty on Wednesday, a day after Tali...

Dec 17, 2014 05:57 AM EST

Pakistani pupils recall narrow escapes, carnage in Taliban slaughter

It began like any other morning in Pakistan's Army Public School in the northwestern city of Peshawa...

Dec 16, 2014 06:05 PM EST

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