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A Taliban suicide car bomber and five heavily armed gunmen attacked an international aid group's guest house in the Afghan capital on Friday, killing two guards and setting off an hours-long battle with security forces in an upscale Kabul neighborhood, authorities said.The International Organization for Migration said four of its workers were wounded, including an Italian badly burned by a grenade. Police said at least five attackers also died.The Taliban quickly claimed responsibility for the assault on the staff quarters for the IOM, the second major strike inside Kabul in a little more than a week.The insurgents have unleashed a wave of bombings and assassinations around the country, testing Afghan security forces' ability to respond with less help from international forces who have begun a withdrawal that will see most foreign troops gone by the end of 2014.A Nepalese guard and an Afghan police officer providing security to the compound died in the assault, and at least five of the...
Despite all the talk from top military leaders about how important it is to reverse the Taliban's momentum, Al Qaeda remains the No. 1 target for the U.S. military i...
Pakistan agreed to free a handful of Taliban prisoners at the request of the Afghan government, in a move meant to help jumpstart a shaky peace process with the mili...
A car bomb targeting a police vehicle killed 11 policemen and one civilian Thursday in an area of southwest Pakistan wracked by a separatist insurgency and Islamic m...
A peace deal between Pakistan's government and Islamic militants in North Waziristan has created a virtual Taliban mini-state where mullahs dispense justice and figh...
The killing of Osama bin Laden may weaken al-Qaida's influence on the Afghan Taliban, the U.S. military commander in Afghanistan said.Even so, Gen. David Petraeus wa...
Pakistan has freed eight Taliban prisoners and has agreed to release many more to help kick start a peace process that could lead to a political resolution of the 11...
Police say a suicide bomber on foot has killed an anti-Taliban village elder and at least three other people in a busy marketplace in central Afghanistan.Police in G...
KABUL -- Pakistani military intelligence not only funds and trains Taliban fighters in Afghanistan but is officially represented on the movement's leadership council...
A highly-classified U.S. report that said the Taliban, backed by Pakistan, is ready to take control in Afghanistan was not an analysis of the military campaign's pro...
Taliban militants based near the Afghan border and their Al Qaeda allies are the most likely suspects behind a massive truck bombing at Islamabad's Marriott Hotel, o...
Pakistan agreed to free a handful of Taliban prisoners at the request of the Afghan government, in a move meant to help jumpstart a shaky peace process with the mili...
Pakistan made its first public appeal Friday for the Taliban to participate in peace talks with the Afghan government, a potentially significant move given Islamabad...
A suicide bomber struck outside a provincial council headquarters in northern Afghanistan on Monday, killing the council chief and at least 13 others, authorities sa...
The head of Pakistan's military has told the country's incoming prime minister that there is no secret agreement with the United States on the use of drones, FoxNew...
Artists and activists have handed out 10,000 pink balloons to residents in Afghanistan's war-weary capital, bringing smiles to surprised Kabul residents a day after ...
Below is the transcript for President Obama's counterterrorism policy speech at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C.:MAY 23, 20132:01 P...
Authorities in eastern Afghanistan say explosives transported by suspected Taliban fighters accidentally detonated while they were stopped at a mosque, killing 12 pe...
President to lift ban on transfer of detainees to Yemen
Afghanistan's cricket board says gunmen have kidnapped the father of its national team captain.There has been no ransom demand since Mohammad Nabi's 60-year-old fath...