Suspected Taliban militants in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday torched 10 oil tankers ferrying oil supplies for Nato troops in Afghanistan in, police said.

In another sign of escalation of war against the Taliban, the US is sending heavily armoured M1 Abrams main battle tanks to Afghanistan to step up attacks on insurgents, a media report said on Friday.

Peshawar: At least 20 Taliban militants were killed today when missiles fired from US drones struck a compound and a speeding vehicle in the restive northwest Pakistan – the 100th such attack in the t

Peshawar: A powerful bomb went off near the home of a slain tribal elder in a Taliban-infested area in northwest Pakistan today, killing at least two persons, including the imam of a mosque, and inj

Taliban militants attacked Jalalabad airport and a military base for foreign forces in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday but the strike was thwarted, officials said.

An entire contingent of the police on duty in an Afghan town appeared to have switched sides to the Taliban, surrendering a police station after cutting a deal with the militants, and leaving the Afgh

Kabul: Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has reportedly held a secret meeting with three Taliban leaders in an effort to weaken the Haqqani network.

Jalaluddin Haqqani, a commander in the 1980s Afgh

Washington: About one billion dollars worth of US aid has wound up in the hands of the Taliban and other insurgency groups, war analysts and government auditors say.

Sub-contractors have reportedly d

Kabul: Pilotless drones of the Royal Air Force, flown by remote control, are killing the top brass of the Taliban in Afghanistan at the rate of one per week.

Camera-fitted Reapers have blitzed the e

Toronto: A University of Washington academic has said Pakistan can learn from India’s example of helping landless poor build better lives from themselves.

Roy Prosterman, the founder and chair emerit