36 Taliban militants killed in Afghanistan
As many as 36 Taliban militants have been killed, three injured and 28 captured by Afghan police backed by NATO-led troops, the interior ministry said on Saturday.
It said eight joint operations were
Pakistan's terror safe havens remain security challenge, says US
US-led coalition forces have weakened the Taliban in Afghanistan, but terrorist safe havens in Pakistan and endemic corruption still pose tough challenges, a new Pentagon report says.
"The Taliban-le
Taliban threat from AfPak real: Air chief
Increasing Talibanisation of Pakistan and shifting of terror focus from AfPak region would pose a serious security threat to India in the next two years, Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal N.A.K. Br
Over 140 who fled Pakistan prison back in jail
As many as 143 of the 384 inmates who fled a prison in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province following an audacious Taliban attack are back in jail, an official said.
Provincial Home Secretary Azam
Afghan forces seize 10 tonnes of explosives
Afghan security forces have detained five insurgents who planned to use ten tonnes of explosives to inflict ‘large scale bloodshed’ in crowded areas of the capital Kabul, an official said Saturday.
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'Opposed to Afghan troop withdrawal, peace talks with Taliban'
A top Republican Senator has criticised the Afghan policy of US President Barack Obama, opposing his troop withdrawal plan from the country and the peace talks with the Taliban.
Republican Senator J
36 militants killed, Haqqanis behind attack: Afghan minister
The Pakistan-based Haqqani network is suspected to have carried out the brazen suicide attacks on Western embassies and Parliament here, the Afghan interior minister has said.
Taliban attack Pakistan prison, free 380 prisoners
Taliban militants attacked a prison in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, freeing at least 380 prisoners, including at least 20 insurgents described by police as ‘very dangerous’ authorities and the militants said.
Coordinated suicide attacks rock Afghanistan
Suicide bombers struck across Afghanistan in coordinated attacks on Sunday, with explosions and gunfire rocking the diplomatic enclave in the capital as militants took over a hotel and tried to enter
US embassy in lockdown as attacks hit Kabul
The United States embassy in Kabul was in lockdown on Sunday as explosions and gunfire rocked the capital, a spokesman said.
All staff were accounted for and safe, with no reports of injuries, spokes