The Taliban do not represent the popular will of the people in Afghanistan, a top Obama Administration official has said, a day after a former ISI chief told a US news network that the militant group

The Taliban publicly flogged and then executed a pregnant Afghan widow by emptying three shots into her head for alleged adultery, police said on Monday.

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Kabul, Aug. 7: The Taliban said on Saturday they had killed “Christian missionaries” working in remote northern Afghanistan where the bullet-riddled bodies of six Americans, one German and a British n

Six Americans and two other foreigners on a medical mission were shot and killed by the Taliban who ambushed their vehicles in a remote part of northern Afghanistan, a charity said on Saturday.

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Taliban on Thursday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack that killed the chief of a paramilitary force and three others in Peshawar and warned they will carry out more such strikes against the security forces and leaders of the Awami National Party.

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Paris, Aug. 3: Coalition forces “are losing the war against the Taliban” in Afghanistan, the Pakistani President, Mr Asif Ali Zardari, said in an interview published in France on Tuesday.

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US Defence Secretary Roberts Gates has said that massive intelligence leaks by web whistleblower Wikileaks had put at risk lives of the American soldiers and people who had helped Washington in war against terror.

A roadside bomb hit a minibus in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing six passengers and wounding another nine, an official said.

Kabul, July 28: A roadside bomb tore through a passenger bus in western Afghanistan Wednesday, killing 25 civilians, a provincial governor said.

At least 20 other civilians were injured in the blast