A woman from Afghanistan, whose family fled from the country when the Taliban took power and is one of many Afghans who have since returned, is doing something no one else has ever done.

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A suicide truck bomber attacked a US-run base on Friday, sparking clashes that killed up to 14 people in eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistani border, officials said.

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The Taliban on Wednesday denied reports of the death of Jalaluddin Haqqani, the founder of the Pakistani-linked Haqqani network which is regularly blamed for major attacks in Afghanistan.

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Intelligence officials have said keeping Dr Shakil Afridi in Peshawar’s central prison is no less than keeping him in plain sight of the Taliban who are purportedly baying for his blood.

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Three senior officers of the Pakistan Navy have been penalised after a court martial found them guilty of negligence and dereliction of duty during a deadly Taliban attack on a key naval airbase in Ka

Two months after he was shot dead by French Special Forces, a 23-year-old Algerian origin terrorist was found to have been plotting to attack the Indian embassy here on the direction of his Taliban ha

With reports of a terror attack plot being unearthed against its Embassy in Paris, India on Friday said the mission has been 'fully alert' to security issues and was in touch with relevant French auth

The Pakistani Taliban have released a dramatic video of an attack by militants on a jail in the country's northwest that resulted in the escape of nearly 400 prisoners last month.

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A man wearing an Afghan army uniform shot dead a US service member in the east of the country, one of two NATO troops killed today, military officials said.

The Taliban took credit for the attack.

The Taliban beheaded two security personnel and hung their heads on wooden poles on Monday in North Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan, where nine soldiers were killed in a clash with the militants.