The U.S. military obtained new video of the American prisoner of war Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl who was seized in Afghanistan in June, 2009, CNN reported. Bergdahl, a native of Wood Valley Idaho, is believed to be held captive by the Taliban-aligned Haqqani network in Pakistan. He has spent almost five years in captivity, and "the so-called proof-of-life video, the first of him in nearly three years, has a reference to December 14, 2013."
A bomb in a mosque killed Governor Arsallah Jamal of eastern Logar province in Afghanistan as he was delivering a speech at the main mosque in the provincial capital of Puli Alam to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.
The Taliban has issued a new threat against 16-year-old Malala Yousafzai, the girl who had been shot in the head by one of its fighters a years ago after refusing to halt her effort to expose the plight of schoolgirls in Pakistan
The Taliban attacked the U.S. Consulate in western Afghanistan with car bombs and guns on Friday, killing at least four Afghans, though they did not enter the compound or hurt Americans.
The U.S. will meet the Taliban in Doha, Qatar for talks aimed at achieving peace in Afghanistan where the United States has battled the insurgents for 12 years, U.S. officials said on Tuesday. The officials who spoke on condition of anonymity, also said the Taliban would issue a statement on Tuesday opposing the use of Afghan soil for attacks on other countries, and that they support an Afghan soil for attacks on other countries and that they support an Afghan peace process.
The Taliban launched a large-scale attack involving the United Nations in the center of Kabul, Afghanistan, which sparked a five-hour battle with security forces. An Afghan police officer was killed and 10 others were wounded during the attack, which began with suicide car bomb outside a compound used by the International Organization for Migration, (IOM), Afghan police said. IOM is affiliated with the UN in Afghanistan.
A suicide bomber in a car attacked a convoy of foreign troops in Kabul, killing at least 15 people including six Americans on Thursday. Forty people were wounded in the morning blast that occurred at about 8:30 A.M
A suicide bomber blew himself up on the roadway outside the Afghan Defense Ministry in Kabul on Saturday, Afghan officials said as Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel made his first visit to the country in his new post. At least 8 civilians were killed in the attack, and another six or seven wounded, according to Afghan officials.
