Taliban militants destroyed two government-run schools in the restive Bajaur tribal region of northwest Pakistan on Monday though there were no reports of casualties, officials said.

Nato said on Monday that its troops had captured a member of the Al Qaeda-linked Haqqani network in connection with a weekend suicide attack on an Afghan flea market that killed four soldiers.

Taliban militants plan to target Chinese nationals working on development projects in northwest Pakistan, according to an alert issued by a federal government organisation.

After nine years of war in Afghanistan, the American Army in the country have been reportedly provided with the latest game-changing "revolutionary" rifles called the XM25, which have the capacity to

The repatriation of people displaced by the military operation against the Taliban in South Waziristan tribal region of northwest Pakistan will begin in the first week of December, officials have said

Washington: Violence in Afghanistan has reached an all time high, the Pentagon has warned, saying that efforts to marginalise Taliban capabilities including their safe havens and logistic support or

Afghan President Hamid Karzai is reaffirming his opposition to night raids that coalition forces are conducting to capture and kill midlevel Taliban insurgents. In a press conference on Tuesday,

Reuters: The New York Times said on Tuesday that a man it had described as a 'Taliban leader' who had taken part in 'secret peace talks' with the Afghan government was in fact an impostor.

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Reuters: Children are probably safer growing up in Afghanistan's major cities, including the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, than in London, New York, or Glasgow, NATO's top civilian envoy to Afghanis

Lisbon: President Barack Obama said for the first time he wants US troops out of major combat in Afghanistan by the end of 2014, the date he and other NATO leaders set for moving Afghans into the lead