The Pakistani Taliban claimed a brazen overnight raid on an army outpost near the border with Afghanistan on Saturday, which ...

The lower house of Russia’s parliament has approved a bill that would set the stage for Moscow to remove the designation of ...

Stanikzai is the first senior Taliban figure to publicly criticize his government's draconian crackdown on Afghanistan's once ...

Former Taliban fighters are tracking down their own bombs and helping to remove them from Afghanistan’s roadsides. Ex-Taliban ...

Funding its war against the United States, the Taliban reaped millions from boom towns trading opium, heroin and meth. Victorious, the group crushed the trade, leaving ghost towns in its wake.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- The Pakistani Taliban on Saturday claimed responsibility for a deadly military checkpoint attack in the country’s northwest.

A suicide attack killing a senior Haqqani Network leader underscores recent reports of tensions between the group and the ...

The Taliban’s minister of refugees, Khalil Ur-Rahman Haqqani, was killed along with four others in a suicide attack in Kabul on Wednesday. The deceased minister was a senior leader within the ...

Russia's parliament passed a law on Tuesday that would allow courts to suspend bans on groups designated by Moscow as terrorist organisations - paving the way for it to normalise ties with the Afghan ...

The government accused the Islamic State of being behind the attack, which struck at the heart of the Taliban’s power structure after years of essentially unchallenged dominance. By Lynsey ...

KABUL — For the first time since the Taliban takeover three years ago, Afghans living outside the country have begun flocking back to their homeland, usually to visit relatives who have remained ...