KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Forty Taliban insurgents were killed in a battle with Afghan security forces in the country's eastern province of Paktika, a provincial governor said.
KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Two Afghan army commanders were fired after a U.S.-led coalition airstrike killed 89 civilians, many of them children.
KABUL, Afghanistan, May 14 (UPI) -- A Taliban spokesman confirmed the killing of top commander Mullah Dadullah in Afghanistan, China's official Xinhua news agency reported Monday. The report said Taher Afghan, described as a Taliban spokesman, spoke to the news agency from an undisclosed pl
KABUL, Afghanistan, April 22 (UPI) -- The Taliban has demanded that France withdraw its troops from Afghanistan as a condition for releasing five people taken hostage.
KARACHI, Pakistan, May 3 (UPI) -- Pakistani police have caught a suspected Taliban fighter wanted by the Afghan government in the 2001 killing of a well-known pro-U.S. Afghan leader. Voice of America reported Monday that Afghan national Sirajul Haq was captured in a raid in Pakistan's sou
KARACHI, Pakistan, March 2 (UPI) -- The Afghan government is reportedly talking to moderate Taliban supporters to bring them back into the mainstream of Afghan society.
KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- Taliban rebels have killed six Afghan army soldiers, Afghan officials announced Sunday.
KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 9 (UPI) --
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- Afghan commanders and tribal leaders meeting in Peshawar proposed Thursday an interim government to take over the Afghan government from the Taliban. "The inter
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- Afghan leaders began a two-day conference in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on Wednesday to discuss Afghanistan's government and political system if t
