The United States on Friday signed a deal transferring the controversial Bagram prison to Afghan control, marking a breakthrough in negotiations over a strategic treaty between the two nations.

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Taliban militants armed with guns and rockets ambushed a Pakistani military convoy on Friday, killing seven soldiers in the militant stronghold of North Waziristan, officials said.

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Pakistani Taliban commanders are locked in talks, trying to heal a damaging rift that has inflamed tensions over whether to pursue peace efforts with the government, insiders say.

After months of rel

Afghan Taliban insurgents claimed responsibility for the shooting deaths of American advisers in the interior ministry in Kabul on Saturday.

The Taliban said in a statement on their website that ‘a h

Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Friday called on Taliban leaders and other Afghan insurgent groups to take part in a peace process to end 10 years of war in neighbouring Afghanistan.

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At least eight Afghans were shot dead and dozens wounded on Wednesday in clashes between police and demonstrators protesting over the burning of the Quran at a US-run military base, officials said.

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has told a top Pakistani cleric with ties to militants that key Afghan Taliban leaders are either killed or arrested whenever they show willingness to negotiate with his

The US has confirmed to have participated in three-way talks with the Afghan government and Taliban.

According to White House spokesman Jay Carney, the US side 'supported an Afghan-led process of rec

A suicide bomber attacked a market in a largely Shiite Muslim area of northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 19 people and wounding 54 others in the deadliest attack for a month.

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Pakistan is not backing the Afghan Taliban and it is up to the people of Afghanistan to decide whether the militants should be part of any future government in Kabul, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani